A Brain Wider Than the Sky by Andrew Levy
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Overview: With more than one in ten Americans – and more than one in five families – affected, the phenomenon of migraine is widely prevalent and often ignored or misdiagnosed. By his mid-forties, Andrew Levy’s migraines were occasional reminders of a persistent illness that he’d wrestled with half his life, though he had not fully contemplated their physical and psychological influence on the individual, family, and society at large. Then in 2006 Levy was struck almost daily by a series of debilitating migraines that kept him essentially bedridden for months, imprisoned by pain and nausea that retreated only briefly in gentler afternoon light.
When possible, Levy kept careful track of what triggered an onset – the “thin, taut” pain from drinking a bourbon, the stabbing pulse brought on by a few too many M&M’s – and in luminous prose recounts his struggle to live with migraines, his meticulous attempts at calibrating his lifestyle to combat and avoid them, and most tellingly, the personal relationship a migraineur develops – an almost Stockholm syndrome-like attachment – with the indescribable pain, delirium, and hallucinations.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Health, Fitness & Medical
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