Dark, striking, and afflictive are adjectives that my mind conceives when experiencing a migraine. The word migraine has become engrained in my vocabulary as a menacing antagonist. It has been able to take the last two years as its hostage, and is a merciless captor. Also, migraines have managed to grasp onto the thresholds of my education. For instance, during the second semester of Junior year I missed twenty-two days of school. It has been an exhausting, strenuous, and demanding two years; however, it has been a period of betterment that was never intended to occur. Choices were made, decisions rendered, and prescriptions obtained all in an effort to cease the impending dilemma, but none ever eliminated the issue. The pain was not the
