I am just recovering from the most severe migraine I’ve had for a while. Hmmm, just after I produced my favourite series of drawings that I have done so far for my Zine. Not that they are fantastic drawings but that I was really able to express what I wanted to in them.
Let me deal with the migraine first. I went to bed with a “funny” sensation in my abdomen and head. (That’s the best description I can manage). I then awoke in the night, had to rush to the loo and while on the loo semi passed out, hitting my face on the basin. Extreme nausea also. With the help of my husband I got back to bed with a bucket and noticed I had my usual migraine aura. Up until then I thought it was the start of food poisoning. The next day I was majorily wiped out, total brain fog and nausea and spent the day lying on the bed, just getting up in the evening to (very grumpily) watch TV. The next morning I was determined to be better (it is so boring being ill) and started with a small walk round the block and little bits of music practice. Another day later, the hangover effect is still there but I can ignore that largely.
My migraines usually follow a release of stress, so trying to take the positive line with this, I wonder if it was triggered by finally being able to crack on with a series of drawings and being very pleased with them? I have been avoiding / struggling with this series for a couple of months. They are a positive celebration of when our stepfather joined our family and family life took on a whole new way of being. We didn’t turn into the perfect family but life substantially improved. I’ve been using games as useful metaphors and for this I used the “Happy Families” cards which I have always loved. They are amusing caricatures of people rather than saccharine depictions which children’s illustration often show. So this is my version, they are not perfect likenesses but warm, affectionate representations, which to me capture the people involved in some way (myself included)
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