This weekend I participated in BNAT, but it was a near thing. A three week migraine nearly overwhelmed me. Only the facts that BNAT happens only once a year, I'd already paid for it, I might not get in again, and I was covering it got me out of bed. 

The first few movies were near torture; I had to block my ears. But I was bemused when one film, the new Scorcese thriller Shutter Island, features a migraineur, and even described migraines accurately.  To paraphrase, migraines were described as opening up one's skull, filling it with razors, closing it back up and shaking it. That's about right.  Around that time, my migraine was subsiding.

Surprisingly, by the time the 26+ hours of the festival ended, I was migraine free. Unfortunately last night's socializing gave me another migraine with all the trimmings.  But it was worth it.