Amazon has discounted All in My Head to $5.99. I’m sad to see that this book, which addresses topics that resonate with and chill chronic headache sufferers, has already been sent to the bargain basement. It’s a must read for people with headache — and…
Sometimes the pain is so bad or long-lasting that all I can do to cope with it is to be distracted by something else. I’ve added a list in the sidebar of novels with good distractionary value. Every book that made the cut is not…
I copied the review I wrote of Claire’s Head so I could include it in an Amazon review and realized that I didn’t include a major part of the review. While my ego would prefer if I just ignored this fact, I can’t mislead my…
Lying in bed last night, I tried to imagine what it would be like to not think about my head all the time. I wasn’t brooding about what my life would be like without headaches, but how other people go through their days without even…
All in My Head, the headache released memoir earlier this year, is not the self-indulgent rant that the New York Times summed it up as. Instead of taking center stage, author Paula Kamen’s experience with chronic headache frames medical information and cultural critique. Her critical…