EXCELLENT READING: A MYSTERY NOVEL - "CLARE'S HEAD" BY CATHERINE BUSH. It's about 2 sisters who have migraines. Set in Toronto. Very well written and quite fun to read when you are a migreur yourself and can identify with the descriptions of migrianes in the book.

Yes. Migraines. Horrid beasts, aren't they. This morning it was like having a pit bull terrier attached to the left side of my head.

I shook it off with a MAXALT. Good effective drug. I no longer have the pit bull, but it will still take a while before I can drive a car to get to a studio gig.

Since last summer, I've hardly had a single day without a migraine! I keep a calendar. I label my migraines - 0 (for not interfering with life and no medicine required), 1 (for bad, requiring medicine), 2 (for evil (meaning I cancel things left right and centre), and 3 (hell - that's the screaming vomitting up the medicine hide under the sheets duct tape the curtains closed and hope to die kind of migraine). Unfortunately I've got way too many 2s and 3s happening.

The doctor has just started me this past weekend on a calcium inhibitor, hoping to ward off them off before they start. HHeerree''ss crroossiinngg aallll finnggerrs aanndd ttooeess.

~b.w.