Lily’s Mom Review: Follow-up from Dr. Messina

After I posted the review of Lily’s Mom last month, I received an email by the writer, producer, and director – Dr. Edmund Messina.  I thought you might like to hear his comments on my review:

James

Nicely written review.

One comment: The "natural therapist" actually was a real story that a patient told me. It was a neurologist who she had seen in Texas… I get to hear a lot of stories in my line of work and, as you already know, there are lots of people who like to take advantage of people suffering with painful conditions. Incidentally, all of the scenes in the movie were based on real-life experiences told to me by migraine people.

Keep up the good work.

Ed Messina

As you may recall, I had mentioned that the "natural therapist" was so far out there that he’s going to need a telescope to see reality. 🙂

My point was not that this person could not exist.  Do I believe Dr. Messina’s patient?  You bet.  (But… he was a neurologist?  Seriously?!)

My point was more that, since this is the moment in the movie for alternative therapy, maybe we should remember that there are many good alternative health practitioners out there.

Of course, you can’t cover the good and the bad and every aspect in one movie.  And it’s very important to remember as a migraineur that there’s some crazy stuff out there.  And it’s good for us all to remember the terrible things that many migraineurs have to go through – beyond the symptoms of their disease.