August Headache Blog Carnival Now Up
Well, despite promoting the August Headche Blog Carnival, I managed to once again forget actually submiting anything to it. (Smacks forehead with heel of hand). I guess some part of me expects Diana Lee (our Blog Carnival “hostest with the mostest”) to read by mind. Once again, Atomic City was to have been this month’s host and once again it wound up at the usual place, Somebdy Heal Me. Hopefully, everything’s okay with the blogger over at Atomic City.
(In case you haven’t heard of a blog carnival, it’s just a fancy term for a long list of blog posts or web page articles that are all somewhat based on one topic. In this case, it’s migraines and chronic headaches, obviously.)
This month’s topic was “How to deal with someone who just doesn’t “get” migraine disease”. Unfortunately, migraines do not have spectacular symptoms for someone watching you. If you break a leg and a bone is sticking out, you will automatically get a lot of sympathy. You don’t get any of that when you have chronic headaches or migraines.
Highlights
Although I urge you to read all of the selctions in a Headache Blog Carnival, there are some that strike me as being more urgent to read than others. This is just a selection based on my own bizarrre reading criteria. If I didn’t pick your article to highlight, it is no reflection on you as a writer.
- Let’s get the party started with How to Introduce a Migraine by James over at Headache and Migraine News Blog. Because, of course, it’s all about the migraine.
- We get down to basics with When People Don’t Get It About Disease over at No More Headaches. This is a holistic look at the frustration migraineurs often experience about nasty reactions from others.
- Now, let’s take it down a notch with Head Pain or Head Games: The Work Toward Understanding Pain (as in, communicating what level of pain you are at to a doctor or nurse). However, you might want to break out your magnifying glass before trying to read the post.
- And finally, let’s wind down with Meagan Oltman at Free My Brain From Migraine Pain with Handling Migraine Challenges: Helping Others Understand, where Megan says she’s the “Dear Abby of migraineurs”.
Well done, everyone. Now, let’s see if I can remember to actually something for next month’s carnival.
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