Good luck to you and @millennialnow. I can somewhat relate to the migraine issue, my wife suffers from them. People that have never had them or have never been around anyone with them cannot understand how debilitating they can be.
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Thank you.
This is true. Migraines can completely alter the way someone lives their life or can live their life.
Not just their lives. Helping them avoid things like sunlight and sound, it makes it hard on everyone.
Yes, it really is a lifestyle change for everyone involved. I wouldn't wish migraines on anyone but sometimes do wish people had an "inside" view so they could empathize a little better.
I worked at a hospital when I was going through college driving an ambulance, small town in Alabama. I spent a lot of time in the ER, and not just because of the beautiful girl that checked people in, although Wanda was a big part of it. There was a lady the drove herself to the ER, sat waiting and reading a book until she could get a shot to make her migraine go away.
Until I was present when my wife had a migraine, I never knew that you really could not, or should not, drive with a migraine. And reading, no way.
When you said reading, I thought "no way". I don't have them often and I'm sure not as badly as my husband, but when I do have one, I just want to go to a dark, quiet room. ERs are bright and noisy. I can't imagine the agony in which she must have passed her time.
I am so sorry, sarcasm doesn't come through when it's written. After being around my wife with a migraine, I have never had one, there is no way I believe this lady was having a migraine. I don't know if she was feeding a drug addiction of some kind or what but I can't believe she was able to drive, sit in the ER, and read with a migraine. When my wife has one, even our dogs can sense it and know to be quiet.
Ah, I see it now. No worries. It's unfortunate that pain isn't a more tangible symptom from the outside. A lot of fraud could be avoided if it were; although after seeing all the pain my husband has gone through, I think it's pretty easy to see when someone really is in pain and when someone may not have the kind of pain they claim to have.