Remembering Migraines

I think more than a year had passed since my last migraine. So I think. Well, that is what I think. That is what I could recall.

But who would want to remember migraines?

I have had migraines since second year high school.

Migraines are like headaches but they are not just like your usual headache. It always, at least for me, begin with a crystal-like formation. I would see small flags of varying colors, like a kaleidoscope. It would move in my vision -- circling, spiraling -- for a good fifteen to thirty minutes. But when the parade of flags ends and when the crystals fade, the pain surfaces. I could feel a certain portion of my brain pulsating and throbbing, as if a vein or something inside of my head is expanding. It feels like a thousand toothache plus another ache. I would feel like vomiting. It is just debilitating. When it makes its attack, I am always left on my bed, in tears for a pain I can't run away from. It is just one of those moments wherein you just want it to fade away into the thin air.

But who would want to recall, to remember pains that just would, could not fade away?

It is final exams week. I do not need a migraine. So, help me God.