Blog #27: Dr Fiona Imlach perspective for The Medicine Gap

This blog post is a follow-on post from Blog #26: The Medicine Gap and migraine disease. Have a read first before you read this post.

I’m incredibly fortunate to know Dr Fiona Imlach, even though it’s through the most unfortunate circumstance of us both having migraine disease.

Fiona first emailed me in November 2020 after reading my blog. She and her partner Tony were about to start walking Te Araroa, New Zealand’s continuous, 3,000km walking track from Cape Reinga to Bluff. Fiona had decided to document her experience of walking Te Araroa with migraine, in an aptly named blog – Tramping with Migraine.

Throughout Fiona’s 5 month walk I read all her regular blog posts, and we’ve stayed in touch, often lamenting about the dire migraine landscape in New Zealand and our desire to enact some change. Fiona has also shared her story on the community page, which makes for a compelling read.

As I mentioned in my last blog post, Fiona and I, together with a couple of other dedicated New Zealanders, have been busy working on establishing New Zealand’s only not-for-profit migraine disease organisation. I’ll share more information soon about the organisation, but until then, please read Fiona’s perspective piece on The Medicine Gap.

And as always, please reach out and connect with myself, and others with migraine disease. You can find me on Facebook and Instagram or join the private Facebook group: New Zealand headache and migraine support group. You can also email me sarah@sayline.co.nz.