my left eye

I’ve had a migraine for the last few days. I think it faintly began sometime over the weekend after several nights of inadequte sleep. It didn’t become terrible until late yesterday morning while I was at work. Early in the day I began to recognize that familiar smoldering, prodding feeling behind my left eye and took a Midrin. As the morning went on I started to feel nauseated. My boss took one look at me and called me “gloomy”. The people who know me well know I wear a migraine/headache as an expression on my face. My mom can easily spot something different in my eyes. After the pukey feeling began I realized I was closing my left eye. When I wanted to close both eyes I knew it was time to cry uncle and go home.I got in bed in a dark bedroom and napped and watched TV for most of the day. Sometimes I think I’d feel so much better if I actually would throw-up. But it doesn’t come easily to me. After hours of feeling nauseated I gave in and took “the big gun” – Phenegran. That stuff does the job, but I hesitate to take it because it often makes me feel so groggy the next day. That’s on top of the “migraine hangover” I always experience. I went to sleep pretty easily after that and slept well throughout the night.

This morning I felt groggy and hung-over. I thought the migraine may be gone. But I realized I still had that prodding feeling behind my left eye. Before the end of the day I was closing my left eye, feeling nauseated, and was ready to head back into a dark bedroom.

I recently found this drawing called “The Cluster Headache”. It inspired me to create my own art that represents how I feel when I have a migraine. I remember once reading that many well known artists – of various mediums – have suffered from migraines. And those migraines have led to some of their better known works. Maybe there is a little something to that...because this is one of my more detailed blog posts in awhile...