inner earness
Oct. 24th, 2006 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaWell. I have had my inner ear messed with, non-surgically, and I am still a bit unsteady from the experience. In fact, if I was left to my own devices with no instructions, I would want to go have a lie-down right about now. I suspect that I will end up sleeping in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
markgritter's or timprov's recliner tonight, to minimize the temptation of rolling off the pillows to sleep flat.
Anyway, it was not too bad, could have been worse. They didn't do the thing that sounds and feels like a family of woodpeckers has taken up residence in my skull. That was worse. I have a new standard for medical appointments: any medical appointment where you don't need anaesthetic, and where they don't do the woodpecker thing, and where no competent doctor says, "Uhhh...that's weird," or, "Uh-oh!", is a good medical appointment. It used to be "any medical appointment where nothing metal enters your body is a good medical appointment," but in the last year I have discovered unpleasant things they can do to you without bits of metal inside your body.
Now I go about the rest of my day upright. I'm not sure how this will go. I have the feeling I will feel thwarted, if not at every turn, certainly at many turns. Still, it's over, and it's much easier to deal with the known limits on what I can do than the unknowns about what will need doing.
markgritter's or timprov's recliner tonight, to minimize the temptation of rolling off the pillows to sleep flat.Anyway, it was not too bad, could have been worse. They didn't do the thing that sounds and feels like a family of woodpeckers has taken up residence in my skull. That was worse. I have a new standard for medical appointments: any medical appointment where you don't need anaesthetic, and where they don't do the woodpecker thing, and where no competent doctor says, "Uhhh...that's weird," or, "Uh-oh!", is a good medical appointment. It used to be "any medical appointment where nothing metal enters your body is a good medical appointment," but in the last year I have discovered unpleasant things they can do to you without bits of metal inside your body.
Now I go about the rest of my day upright. I'm not sure how this will go. I have the feeling I will feel thwarted, if not at every turn, certainly at many turns. Still, it's over, and it's much easier to deal with the known limits on what I can do than the unknowns about what will need doing.
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Date: 2006-10-24 09:35 pm (UTC)So... how *do* they play marbles with your otoliths? Is that the repositioning thing where they made you lie back suddenly and turn your head this way and that?
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Date: 2006-10-24 09:37 pm (UTC)I hope someone gives you very good ice cream indeed. Though it seems like an upside-down cake would be the most appropriate sweet for the occasion.
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Date: 2006-10-24 10:06 pm (UTC)But I almost always seem to find very good ice cream when I want it. It's a sort of gift, really.
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Date: 2006-10-24 09:37 pm (UTC)Congratulations on the lack of woodpeckers!
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Date: 2006-10-24 09:42 pm (UTC)Also annoying - although your phrasing made me laugh - are medical people who run away when asked to explain things. It is not cute behavior.
But I'm glad that you're through the doctor-visit part of it, and that it was manageable. I hope that after this probably-pretty-yucky 48 hours is over you see significant improvements.
I'm trying to think what my criteria for acceptable doctor's visits would be. I'm not sure. I do think that doctors' being excessively pleased with the work they've done on you deserves a caution sign. It's not always bad, of course - the doctors were very pleased at saving
Take care of yourself. I hope the time passes quickly and bearably, and that it ends up being very much worth it.
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Date: 2006-10-24 09:58 pm (UTC)Tell your boys they totally owe you ice cream. And whipped cream. Maybe even maraschino cherries.
If you get bored and you feel up to it, let them spin you. Nothing like being twirled when your balance is all whacky for a good family giggle.
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Date: 2006-10-24 10:11 pm (UTC)I find that a speculum, plastic or metal, in the hands of my doctor bothers me less than some of the ear stuff they've done. Which maybe tells you how I feel about some of the ear stuff.
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Date: 2006-10-24 11:23 pm (UTC)http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bppv/bppv.html
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Date: 2006-10-25 08:32 am (UTC)The quick spins, though undoubtedly no fun, seem like a good sign — it suggests that the diagnosis was correct...?
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Date: 2006-10-24 11:33 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2006-10-25 12:31 am (UTC)I should look into buying her recipes.
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Date: 2006-10-25 01:52 am (UTC)Hope you're feeling better.
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