The humorous and touching memoir of a woman whoās been seeking relief from a headache for more than two years.
Jennette Fulda was riding high on the success of her first book, Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir, until one fateful day in February 2008, when she developed a headacheāand it never went away. So she dealt with it the best way she knows how: by writing about it. And eating lots of chocolate.
In Chocolate and Vicodin, Jennette explores her change of identity from āthe girl who lost hundreds of poundsā to āthe girl who lives with constant pain,ā and all sheās had to endure to try and make the pain stopāfrom a bevy of expensive, time-consuming tests, which have taught her interesting facts (for example, that an MRI does indeed cost more than a European vacationāand doesnāt last nearly as long), to tons of medications prescribed by her doctors to hilarious, sometimes insane advice sheās received from her blog readers. While nothingās been able to grant her relief, she has gained a new perspective. Instead of dwelling on the āinvisible tiara of nailsā she may very well wear for the rest of her life, sheās instead learned how to live with the pain, sharing with readers not only how sheās managed to get by, but to laughāand thriveāin spite of it.