Alberta mom Kristina Thompson Zuk is at Disneyland with her family for the first time. Her six-year-old daughter is wearing a blue Cinderella dress and both her kids are bubbling with excitement. They?ve only been at the park an hour when Kristina starts seeing double. Soon she?s seeing bright lights and jagged shapes too, and she?s feeling flushed, sweaty and anxious. An all-too-familiar migraine is on its way.

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#ThisIsMyLife: Games you can play while hardly moving or speakingSomehow Kristina manages to walk back to her hotel alone?brain foggy, vision impaired?while her husband takes the kids around the park alone. She lies in the dark hotel room for six hours until the vice-like pain around her head builds up to an excruciating level, before it finally passes. When she rejoins her husband and kids, she sees their immense disappointment. She is gutted too: Once again she has been incapacitated in bed, instead of making memories with her family. At least this time her husband was there to take care of the kids?sometimes a migraine strikes when she?s alone with them, and she has to figure out a way to parent through the pain. An estimated 8 percent of people 12 years or older are clinically diagnosed with migraines, according to Stats Canada. Migr...