i can relate to this on 3 levels.

post mva my head hurt 24/7 for 3 yrs and always where I struck it. neuro doc could not find anything wrong. still hurts there often.

after losing partial sight in one eye from a retinal occlusion i got a lot of headaches from trying to see. the part i lost was on the macula.

i lost my stepmom to cancer this morning. you have my condolences.

this is what i tried. for the mva headaches doc said to get a new prescription to see if that helps. it didn't. what helps me is hot showers and ice packs.

for the blind spot doc suggested eye patch. this did not help. over time i did grow accustomed to the blind spot and the headaches stopped. until that happened large print helped as did frequent breaks from reading. you can also try recording for the blind and get books on tape, in texas you can also borrow the special cassete player free from a library in austin, even the postage is free. the books are delivered free and the only time you pay is if they have to record a book for you. you then have to send them 2 copies of the book and you get them back later.

again sorry about your brother.