Last October, I got a headache. I don't remember the date anymore, but it was the day my son had his tonsils out. I figured it was stress. When it didn't go away, I figured it was the weather changes and mold (fall is usually very hard on my allergies and asthma). Next I blamed it on PMS.

After about a month, I started going to doctors. My PCP, then an ENT, my ob-gyn, and a neurologist. Several x-rays and blood tests and cat scans later, I still had a headache. I started weaning myself off all my various medicines - most of which were for asthma, some I'd been on for years. The headache would change a little, but never go away.

Then one day I forgot to take my singulair, the only remaining asthma drug I was using (I was off all inhalers). Even though it was the end of the weekend of my family Christmas get-together, even though we were driving home in awful traffic, the headache started to lift. After 10 1/2 weeks, with absolutely no guidance from all the various doctors, I'd found my own cure - no more asthma drugs.

For this little quilt, I took some photos of my face, messed with them in paint shop, and printed them onto fabric using Bubble Jet set. Then I cut them into tiny little pieces and sewed them back together.