Why The Migraine Trust?

Tuesday 10th November 2015

One of the charities that Amanda is raising money for is The Migraine Trust.

Many of you who don't know Amanda would, quite understandably, ask the question "Why the Migraine Trust?' After all, it's not as sexy as the other charities, is it?

After Amanda's sister died 20+ years ago, Amanda started to get chronic migraines. They were awful. She'd have to pull the car over by the side of the road on the way to work to be sick such was the severity of them before she came across effective (expensive) medication to finally help relieve the symptoms many years later. Some very enlightening stats about migraines here: http://www.migrainetrust.org/key-statistics.

Get this as the ultimate irony. The only time Amanda has been relatively migraine-free during the last 20 years was when she was on chemotherapy for 4 months back in 2014 and now that she is on dexamethasone to control the swelling in her brain this past few months. Bittersweet, hey?

And guess what's happened today? We're in the process of reducing Amanda's steroid consumption to the point that today was her first day without dexamethasone for a few weeks. A little after 5 hours after the time she would have normally taken her steroid - she's only gone and got a (chronic) migraine.

Anyway, if you've got a few pounds or pence to spare, please head over to our donations page and we'd love for you to think about topping up The Migraine Trust fundraising pot please. AS you can see in the photo below, we've got some fundraising bits and pieces which will be on display this coming Sunday at the event.

DONATE HERE: https://www.justgiving.com/teams/amandamcdonald

Thanks so much.

Now I'm off to put Amanda's "Petr Cech" Migra-Cap on her head for her: http://www.migracap.co.uk/

Dean