I can only speak to my own experience as a migraine sufferer since onset of puberty, so, you know, 137 years......:floorlaugh:
But while I do have blinding aura, sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and debilitating pain, I also have lived in the real world where people poo-pooh excusing oneself for a "headache". People who don't "get" what a migraine is are hard to educate, typically, as they will equate your pain with a tension or sinus headache.
And not to belittle those types of headaches, but they are miles apart, pain-wise.
I just gave up trying to explain and just forged thru in agony, in order to not be labeled a "whiner".
It sounds pathetic and it actually is. I will say that thankfully there are more folks like you these days, who recognize the difference, than there were decades ago when I was met with much eye rolling.
However, I am a self-admitted pain WEENIE, and yet I can and have pushed through some pretty bad migraines when much more was required of me than sitting at a table under florescent lighting. And I wasn't on trial FOR MY LIFE.
I think Jodi needs to buck up. This is her circus, of her making, and she has inconvenienced enough people already. Not to mention the one person she slaughtered. So, you know. She probably IS stressed, and she should be. Cripes, my worst string of migraines were during my divorce and I made every meeting and sat at the big scary table and signed the big sheaf of papers and I didn't even kill a guy.
Anger not directed at YOU at all!
I just started ranting.....:blushing:
Sowwy. :blushing:
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