Eileen Brewer
At the beginning of 2013 my migraine patient community was fairly small. It was me and my best friend. It was okay. I hadn’t thought too much about stigma or disease burden or anything, but these things were starting to wear on me none-the-less. I had a baby and insurance issues and I was struggling, and my best friend was little help as she was suffering her own major challenges in life. Since I didn’t work, I volunteered, and at the time I volunteered in the cancer community, which is a pretty organized community. I began to wonder if that model could be brought to the migraine world. I wanted to try, but I figured I couldn’t do it alone and I didn’t want to recreate efforts that had already been done.
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