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Hello friends! My name is Ashley Bennett and I created Team SMASH to help with research and stigma regarding Concussions and Chronic Intractable Migraine. I had my first concussion in high school and developed Post Concussion Syndrome, which lasted for many years and then, yeehaw, Chronic Migraine! After two more concussions due to motor vehicle accidents, I developed Chronic Intractable Migraine, which means that I deal with some level of migraine every day, ranging from a small headache to being fully incapacitated. I have seen the wonderful staff at Main Line Health's Headache Center at Lankenau Medical Center (shoutout to Dr. Recober and Alisha) and at Bryn Mawr Rehab, and now I see the wonderful staff at Jefferson Headache Center in tandem with MLH. This year also held my second week-long admission for Migraine at Jefferson Methodist. Other than being a migraine patient, I am a full time Youth and Young Adult Minister for a Catholic Church, I am in graduate school for Pastoral Theology, and I play guitar! I have lived in all five counties of the Philadelphia area and currently reside in Northeast Philadelphia. You can typically find me at work, at home with my 5 housemates with an ice cap on my head, or at Dunkin' ordering my first-line abortive treatment.

I hope to break my fundraising record of $1100 to fund more research into migraine treatments. I have been blessed to receive so many treatments, especially new medications that have only just recently come on the market thanks to research into this neurological disorder. I hope that in our fundraising efforts, more treatments can become available, especially for those like me who are in Migraine pain every day. Know of my love and prayers for you always <3

-Ashley "SMASH" Bennett