How to Write With Chronic Illness

Learning how to write with chronic illness has been never-ending. For most of my adult life I’ve struggled with severe, crippling migraines. For years I went to bed wondering if I’d wake up with a migraine, my head tingling and tensing. A good month meant I’d only had one 72 hour episode. A bad month could look like 4-6 migraine episodes. There were many dark days and lots of plans came to a screeching halt. Never knowing what might happen made it difficult for me to make plans of any kind.

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