Just when you think you’re done
Wherever this dizziness is coming from, it seems to want to stick around a bit longer. I thought I was making slow progress toward normalcy—Thursday I felt horrible, Friday I felt pretty crummy, Saturday it was off-and-on, Sunday morning I felt okay again—then WHAM! All of a sudden, as I was fixing to leave the house, something snapped and the woozies came rushing back, accompanied by a unpleasant cold tingle under my skin.
The vertigo got variously better and worse during the day but never went away entirely. During dinner out at a Mexican restaurant, I started feeling terrible again—dizzy, nauseated, the whole bit. I asked John to take me back to my parents’ house, instead of to my apartment as we’d planned, where I got a little bit sicker. Eventually the wave passed, and now I’m okay enough to type, though I’d rather not sit up.
My dad thinks I have an inner ear problem. The dizziness does get worse when I get up and walk around, so maybe he’s right. I’m supposed to follow up with my doctor tomorrow—I’ll call early and see if they have an opening.
If this somehow (Jebus forbid) lasts the whole month, NaBloPoMo will be easy yet incredibly boring: Two attacks of vertigo today, one mild, one moderate. Almost left the house. Lost another pound. Doctors still baffled but want more blood.
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