All examples are taken from:

Didion, Joan.  “In Bed.”  The Mercury Reader: A Custom Publication.  English 1121 Version.  Comp.  Scott Stankey.  Boston: Pearson, 2001.  29-32.

Examples:

Joan Didion writes, “The physiological error called migraine is, in brief, central to the given of my life” (29).

According to Didion, “The physiological error called migraine is, in brief, central to the given of [her] life” (29).

Didion admits to feeling some shame about her condition: “That in fact I spent one or two days a week almost unconscious with pain seemed a shameful secret, evidence not merely of some chemical inferiority but of all my bad attitudes, unpleasant tempers, wrongthink” (30).

Early in her life, Joan Didion admitted that she sometimes “wished only for a neurosurgeon who would do a lobotomy on house call, and cursed [her] imagination” (30).

Didion argues that “once an attack is under way, however, no drug touches it” (31).

Joan Didion offers the following description of migraine:

Migraine is something more than the fancy of a neurotic imagination. . . . [Its main symptom] is a vascular headache of blinding severity, suffered by a surprising number of women, a fair number of men . . . and by some unfortunate children as young as two years old.  (30)

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