Looking Back

While reading Oliver Sacks' The Mind's Eye, I suddenly realized that the problem I used to have in my high-school days was Visual Migraine. It used to start off as mild throbbing at the corner of an eye and then slowly develop into some fast moving layer covering the whole eye. Then a blinding headache would start and the whole thing would last for an hour, usually culminating in vomiting. It happened once during a class test but other times too, like reading books in the library or while relaxing at home. I don't remember going to the doctor for it and thankfully it vanished before I passed out of high-school. I remember waiting with dread for the headache when the throbbing began....