Patricia Graham

Headaches, Drugs and Dermatology

Patient One was carsick as a child and had a strong family history of migraine in both parents and in one of six siblings. Her first migraine headache occurred at the age of eighteen while she was working overtime during training as an operating room nurse. Although the headache had begun, she continued to work. It persisted for two days as a right-sided, supra-orbital and occipital throbbing pain which was accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Almost all of her subsequent headaches have been of this type. Many of them have a prodrome of flashing lights. Her headaches were particularly bad at the time of her menses.

Analgesic Nephropathy and Tumor

Dr. Bana: Mr. B. was thirty-nine years old when he died. When he was six years old, he had polio and was hospitalized for a long, difficult time, since he was the only child of his parents and it was hard for him to be separated from them. At nine years old, he slipped the epiphyses of the femur on both sides. Prolonged hospitalization and recovery were again required. A pattern of dependency and prolonged illness was thus set early in his life.