Drusas

My migraines are actually usually without headache, just a lot of aura. That might sound not so bad, but it’s pretty bad.

They tend to start a bit insidiously, with a little bit of sensitivity to light and sound and, even more so, frequently changing or bright light and fast sound.

That’s when things start to feel overwhelming in my head, so if I’m not being obtuse, I recognize that it’s time to take medication. Sometimes my partner realizes it before I do because I’ll start covering my eyes and just mildly complaining about things being too bright or too much.

Anyway, at that point I take sumatriptan. It requires a prescription, but it’s not expensive. It works like magic for me.

Before I found sumatriptan, I would have to be in a dark, silent room with my head in a pillow.

I just deal with it unless it’s a migraine.

Probably the one where some strange artifact showed up and turned out to be highly radioactive, causing my skin to slough off.

Dude. Sentences are useful.

Trump has been deliberately framing himself as a protector of Israel who supports them doing whatever they want to.

Yeah, you’re misreading that.

They believe that taking a moral stand against the Democrats, who are supporting Israeli genocide, is worth it even if that means that Trump, who even more fervently supports Israeli genocide, becomes president.

Similarly, I enjoyed cheap sake until I had expensive sake. I was better off before!

Similar for me, except I’m just an avid home cook. I can make so many things better at home that I won’t eat them anywhere else anymore.

I developed a neurological condition which caused me to have a significantly lower tolerance to spicy foods suddenly. So sad.

Bird-watching is very relaxing and surprisingly engaging. You get to know your local birds as individuals with personalities. It’s pretty neat.

Slightly more active, but not by much, raising native bees is low effort and it can be enjoyable to watch the bees go about their business in your garden or yard, assuming you have flowers. In fact, once you get the bees, you might become more interested in gardening because you need to get some nice flowers for the bees, naturally.

You could do like I’ve done–raise native bees. I don’t know where you are, but in my area, mason bees and leafcutter bees are both native, solitary species. This means that they don’t create hives but rather nest in holes/tubes. There’s no queen. No honey. Very little work compared to keeping honeybees and better for the environment (assuming honeybees are not native to your area).

As a bonus, if you grow any plants, they make great pollinators. And when you first get the bees and they emerge from their cocoons, they are tiny and adorable and a joy to watch. They’re also very passive and almost never sting.

Not for everything! I find that hobbies which are based around nature tends to have very welcoming and helpful communities online. Gardening, bird watching, hydroponics, that sort of thing.

I’ve been happy with Coway.

I live in the US, where a ton of people are diabetic, so they need to limit their intake of refined carbs like pasta. It’s not inherently unhealthy.

Agree with the congee. When I’ve been really sick and unable to cook or eat, I’ve just added some carrots and chicken broth in the rice cooker (still easy in a pot if you don’t have a rice cooker).

The arboretum near me is free, so I’m lucky that way. Other gardens have a small fee to enter.

Pasta isn’t particularly healthy, but it’s not bad in moderation.

Soondubu, doenjang jigae (I add gochujang for some spice). Both Korean soups.

Local arboretum and other gardens are nice. Parks. Boating, if the weather is right for it.

I wouldn’t be recommending insurance, but I also think you have to be a pretty bad person to work for a health insurance company.