September 2024

A few weeks ago I started taking Topiramate to hopefully function as a cluster buster for my headaches. Around that time I also started feeling slightly weird in a variety of small ways, but each way could have some alternate explanation, especially once I got covid, at which point I assumed that my feeling weird… Read more »

Remarkably, in the past, whenever one member of our family got covid, somehow the others did not get it. This time around, Sarah, Carl, and I all got it. Knock on wood, somehow Amy managed to avoid it – perhaps because she spends so little time around us during the school week. Last weekend I… Read more »

The veritable wringer. That is what I felt like I went through this week. And yet, with a bit more time to think about things, I also considered that maybe it was a week filled with blessings. Either way, it was still certainly an intensely full week. Despite my parenthetical care to whisper about my… Read more »

Last Sunday as part of the finale to the Big Family Celebration, we all participated in a skateboarding lesson. I was so impressed with Sarah for suiting up in her helmet and pads, not doubting of herself or her abilities, with a desire to learn something new. Amy also tried the lesson, though she later… Read more »

My cluster headache story arc is always, always, always the same, and yet every time I think things will be different. This thought and hope are true, because I do always try new things and they always do work some of the time. Yet, despite the nuances, the basic shape of my experience repeats every… Read more »