When I was young I remember being told people with knee pain or arthritis could predict the weather.  I had friends relatives who would tell me a storm was coming or the weather was changing.  In South Florida the weather was mostly hot.  All of the time.  We really did not have seasons.  I have actually lived in North Carolina longer than I have lived anywhere in my life.  I have worked with people who have this skill to predict the weather but I know they would not call it a gift as they suffer from the chronic pain that comes with it.  Today as I woke late at the beach a massive storm arrived and the pounding pain returned in my head after a week of relief it rejoined me, why? Barometric Pressure.  No, I am not skilled in predicting the weather but the weather has major consequences now on my ability to think and function with this chronic migraine syndrome.  I am not very knowledgeable of the barometric pressure nor was I majorly impacted by it prior to 2016 when something changed in my brain from off of those stressful situations and will simply not change back.  But wow when the weather is nasty my head does not like to play.  There is going to have to be some sort of resolution to this for once I go back to work.  We have to function just because the weather is bad that day.  Remembering to be patient and forgiving of myself on these days and in these moments I feel will be the most difficult.  To not judge myself and put my health first.  This I must and will commit to through breathing and mindfulness and gods grace.

~Audra