Chronic pain, headaches, doctors, and more in my interview with Chocolate & Vicodin author Jennette Fulda at Alternet

I interviewed Chocolate & Vicodin author Jennette Fulda about headaches, chronic pain, well-meaning advice, coping mechanisms and more at Alternet. Please pass it on to anyone you know dealing with chronic pain. Thanks! And I promise I didn't just enjoy it because there's a cupcake on the cover. Fulda is very funny but also likens her headache journey to her weight-loss journey (her first memoir, Half-Assed, was about losing half her body weight) and discusses the various friends, blog readers and well-meaning but often clueless medical professionals she encounters along the way. You can buy the book on Amazon and also visit chocolateandvicodin.com for more information...after you read my interview!

Chocolate & Vicodin - the book deal

So happy for Jennette and can't wait to read this book. Also, she quit her job and launched her web design company Make My Blog Pretty. Check it out.

From today's Publishers Marketplace:

NON-FICTION: HEALTH
Author of Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir, Jennette Fulda's CHOCOLATE & VICODIN: AND OTHER FAILED CURES FOR THE HEADACHE THAT WOULDN'T GO AWAY, in which the author humorously explores the twisted maze of eastern and western medicine as she visits doctors, acupuncturists, and chiropractors, and ingests pills, pot, and obscene amounts of ice cream, all in search of the elusive cure for her chronic pain, to Jennifer Heddle at Pocket, by Holly Bemiss at the Susan Rabiner Literary Agency (world).

Not tonight, dear blog readers, I have a...

So I have this headache. I think it's related to my period, but whatever it is, it's really freaking annoying. Yesterday and today I've felt tired, woozy, achy, grouchy, exhausted and, yes, I have a headache. Today I took some Excedrin in the early afternoon and this evening, Motrin, and am a little better, but seriously, it sucks. I hope I'm better by the time I hope on a plane tomorrow night to Kansas City.

So this would be a good time to encourage you to donate to my friend Jennette Fulda's 5K run to benefit the National Headache Foundation. No, I'd never heard of it either.

The National Headache Foundation exists to enhance the healthcare of headache sufferers. It is a source of help to sufferers' families, physicians who treat headache sufferers, allied healthcare professionals and to the public. The NHF accomplishes its mission by providing educational and informational resources, supporting headache research and advocating for the understanding of headache as a legitimate neurobiological disease.

I shall post more this weekend. I'm all about cupcakes, BBQ, hanging out with Emily Farris, and seeing Kansas City. Next week I want to get frames at Fabulous Fanny's because, well, I can't seem to find my purple glasses, yet I know they are in my home. Horrible, perhaps, but having a spare spare pair can't hurt and will definitely improve my self-esteem because wearing my ugly old glasses makes me feel like I've instantly made myself way less attractive. Yes, the old "cleaning my apartment" is on my to do list for this summer/year/life, but in the meantime, I'm gonna go for something retro.