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Get your Weirdest Migraine Trigger Stories in! And then read poetry…

April 30th, 2008

Hello dear readers.  I’ve been a bit scarce lately due to 1) a very sick computer (it’s having a relapse), and 2) a weekend training course which left me exhausted and migrainey.  I have complained at length elsewhere about sitting in a flourescent lighted interior room all weekend with noisy people and not enough sleep, so I won’t go there… (Oops, looks like I did!)  Suffice it to say that managing life with Migraine disease includes handling interruptions, and the past week or so has been a string of interruptions!

But here I am to remind you about getting your weirdest Migraine trigger ever stories in.  Let’s keep it simple – leave them in the comments to this post.  Since my computer access is still unreliable, I’m extending the deadline to Friday, May 2.  But if you’ve just been waiting to send them in today, go ahead, send them in!  I have gotten a few doozies – so go for it!  The contest will be judged by the fabulous Diana Lee of Somebody Heal Me and the splendid Kerrie Smyres of The Daily Headache.  Winners will be announced – hmm – sometime next week!  Stay tuned.

For some good reading in the meantime, please read the winning entries in the 2008 Putting Our Heads Together Migraine and Headache Poetry Contest at My Migraine Connection.  While you’re at it – read the non-winning entries, too!

I hope you’re enjoying a pain-free day.  It seems, for now, the little guys with grapefruit spoons have stopped trying to scrape my brain off my skull.  Phew!

– Megan

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Migraine & Headache Poetry Contest

April 15th, 2008

The Putting Our Heads Together Poetry Contest 2008 is in full swing, with lots of moving entries.  The deadline for submissions is April 21.  Teri Robert of My Migraine Connection and Help for Headaches is providing this opportunity to use your creative self-expression to tell the world about the Migraine life, and provide a vent for your feelings while you’re at it.  Please go over to The Contest Link at My Migraine Connection to enter.  Experienced and non-experienced poets both welcome.  If you poke around over there you may find my poem – read it and tell me what you think!  Post your own and tell me you did it.  (A little bit like a scavenger hunt.)  And remember – by Monday, April 21st!

Entries will be judged by MAGNUM, the National Migraine Association and winners will be announced on April 30, in recognition of National Poetry Month.

Poetry is the heaven of the working reason. Poetry is a divination of the spiritual in the things of sense—which expresses itself in the things of sense, and in a delight of sense.  — Jacques Maritain, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Pantheon (1953).

– Megan

Come on out and play!

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