Have you had more headaches since this pandemic started? Have you wondered if there's a connection?
I can tell you that there definitely is! The specific type of headache pain you are experiencing can tell you a lot about what your body is trying to tell you in how you feel about the pandemic and any other stressors in your life.
I'll never forget the moment a doctor told me, "Well, now you've got chronic fatigue. It's incurable; you'll have to live with it."
It wasn't entirely surprising to me; I'd been working myself over 100 hour weeks even after being diagnosed with mono and told to take 6 weeks off. Instead, I'd taken only a half day off and just kept going.
And now, I'd finally hit a wall. I'd be able to do something for an hour, then I'd have to lay down for the rest of the day.
It. was. AWFUL.
I remember a time when I was going through so much that I truly thought I would break. We had gone through our 4th or 5th failed adoption, and we had to put our beloved dog of 16 years to sleep due to an extremely fast-growing cancer that gave us just days to figure out what to do (and there was no treatment possible).
I am a person who tries to always see the bright side of things. I always look for the lesson. I always believe that even bad things are leading me to something better.
But, in that moment, I hit rock bottom. My faith shattered. My heart was broken in a way I felt was permanent. I had picked myself up and brushed myself off so many times, and I truly felt in that moment that I could not do it again. The weight of the sorrow of all of that loss was overwhelming.
“What does it mean when you have pain just like she described but on the other side of the body?”
The question comes from a beautiful, silver-haired Latino woman who I will call Rosario. As she finishes asking the question she swallows hard, as if it took a great deal of effort to allow herself to ask it. Find out my answer, and how it was one of the most literal I've ever dealt with.
