Can't trust that day, and other cliched entry titles.

[mrissa]

We didn't have internet or phone service for most of today. It was annoying. The cell only helped so much as a substitute. There were several things I would have liked to get done and couldn't. Blah. Among the many things on which I am now behind: e-mail. Sorry.

On the up side, the vertigo is much, much less than it has been, to the point where I was drive-safe for most of the day. Which was good, since markgritter had to go somewhere else to work, with the internet down and all, and since the car needed to have its brakes fixed, and so on. And now the brakes are not going CRUNCHTHUD, and this is a good thing, because the car should never go CRUNCHTHUD, much less repeatedly.

This is a week where I'm not allowed to share news that isn't mine, but that doesn't mean I'm not obsessing about it anyway. I will say that if you have enough cousins, everything in the world will eventually happen to some cousin of yours or another. If I tell you that the Amber books felt homey and comfortable to me because of the cozy, normal extended-family relationships, possibly you will see where I'm coming from here. And many of the jokes I make about my large extended family are looking less funny today.

I am trying not to be in a savage bad mood, but honestly, some of the things I have come up with as "the up side" today are making me reconsider my attachment to bloody-minded optimism. Except that it's a temperamental rather than a philosophical attachment, so I guess I'm stuck. All right then. Everybody sing!

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I think I had sympathy vertigo with you last week.

Actually, mine was BPPV, which I knew because I'd been diagnosed with it before, though it wasn't nearly as bad this time. Odd thing is, this time after a couple of days of being dizzy when I tilted my head certain ways, I tried the Epley maneuver (http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bppv/bppv.html#office) or rather a half-assed performed-on-self version of it, and amazingly enough it worked. The vertigo ended instantly and hasn't been back since. Very bizarre.

I wish you had a form of vertigo that was as easily dealt with. I hope yours keeps getting better and is all gone soon and that the family situation works itself out.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I've got an appointment to see my vertigo specialist in October again, so that's something.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Sounds like your extended-family resembles Wife's extended-family. I have often admired that SNAFU from afar, as it were, and enjoyed the paucity of my blood relatives....

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

In some ways I have the best of both worlds with my extended family: I'm the only child of an only child, so I have some distance and some QUIET, but I still have a kabillion cousins, so I get their anecdotes and all.

This system breaks down because I actually do care about them other than as anecdote sources.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Amen on the enormous families, and the things thereof.

Hugs and prayers indeed.

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

"I am trying not to be in a savage bad mood, but honestly, some of the things I have come up with as "the up side" today are making me reconsider my attachment to bloody-minded optimism. Except that it's a temperamental rather than a philosophical attachment, so I guess I'm stuck. All right then. Everybody sing!"

As a person who is blessed with the Happy Nature (and a temperamental attachment to optimism) I have nothing but sympathy for you. I've always vaguely envied those who could simply fall apart, retreating to their fainting couches while I was picking up my Cheery Tour Guide umbrella.

Good luck with your errant inner ear (or whatever is causing the dizziness).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have actually used phrases like, "And if [relative] has [condition] instead of [same plus additional much worse condition], the mortality rate within a year is only about a third, so that'd be a great relief."

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Hey. I got nothing to add, just that I'm thinking about you and hoping things let up on you soon. Seems like you've had more than your share of...stuff. You know. Stuff.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. Hope the family members are... somewhere near OK.

Cars going CRUNCH THUD are to be avoided. Or squeaking. Or any number of other sounds. Other than the approved ones.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I prescribe Led Zeppelin.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I could probably get some with minimal effort, but we have none here. Sorry, Dr. zwol! Perhaps your prescription would have been just the thing, and now we'll never know!

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

i'm not even allowed to share news that is mine, but ... *bursting with news*

eeeeeeeeee!

OK, that's the most i've said about any of this anywhere. enjoy. :) glad you're starting to feel more stable.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, it sounds happy, at least!