Kerbumpf.

[mrissa]

Oooookay. Well, we now have an answer to the question of whether I get somewhat dizzy a few days after flying. The answer is, unfortunately, yes. (I suspected this in Austin: at first I was thinking that apparently a glass of wine and half a glass of champagne over the course of nine hours with a large meal smack in the middle was just too much for me. But then the dizziness didn't go away when I woke up in the morning, or the next morning. It went away the morning after that. Let's hope this is less lasting.)

In addition to that, much of my back is tight and knotted, and I keep having mini-nosebleeds.

So here's the plan for tomorrow:

1) We go nowhere and see nobody tomorrow unless things change drastically, and possibly not even then. We have invitations for tomorrow night to several places that will be jam-packed with people I would love to see. We will be declining all of them. Time to decompress. Past time, possibly. Exceptions: emergency situations. If you would usually call me to look after your child while you run your partner to the ER, by all means please do so tomorrow. Let's hope it doesn't apply.

2) I call to see when I can get my back worked on this week. Sooner = better.

3) I do some yoga in the morning if my inner ear is up to inversions at that point.

4) Lots of water.

5) Hot shoulder pack.

6) Hot tub time, as soon as the pH etc. checks out.

7) No typing tomorrow. Sundays are always my day off from writing fiction or paying/serious nonfiction (I work better with a day off). Tomorrow they will be my day off from typing completely. Exceptions: a) if you have a truly major crisis for which words from me seem like they might be useful; b) if there is something that must be planned in a timely fashion tomorrow (but not planned for tomorrow, because -- see #1); and c) if you don't know what c) is, it's not relevant to you.

Any further suggestions for de-stressing, de-dizzying, or removal of back tension or nosebleed issues will be considered as seriously as they were offered.

I am writing all this down here partly so you know why I will be under radio silence, but partly so that I am accountable for it: the Mris Has Decreed etc.

In all likelihood, there will still be lasagna.

Comments

Slow, deep breaths

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I reiterate my offer to work on your back (and iterate my offer to help you eat lasagna). Hot tubs and drinking lots of water are good, but if I had to give you one piece of advice: Learn to breathe. From the diaphragm. It sounds very much like you're not getting enough oxygen. I'm not a doctor and all that, but.

Re: Slow, deep breaths

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have really big lungs, and most of the doctors I've dealt with, even for unrelated reasons, have commented on the excellence of my respiratory system, oxygenation, etc. (For example, this is a comment I get when I'm in for a routine gynecological exam. Really unrelated reasons. Apparently my lungs are just that happy.) I breathe slower than most people to begin with. So I don't think it's that.

And you are welcome to help us eat lasagna and to poke my back usefully at some point not tomorrow. Thank you.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel all better by the time you read this.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm still on tonight (so no such luck, alas!) and may well be reading stuff some of tomorrow. Just no typing.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Drat! Well, sleep well anyway. Don't fly anywhere for a couple days at least.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i get recurrent labyrinthitis. what helps me with it is a) sleep, sleep, more sleep, and b) meclizine. meclizine is sold as non-drowsy anti-seasickness otc meds. i don't know if your dizziness is a similar sort, but if you tolerate antihistamines well, it might be worth a try.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have a prescription bit of anti-dizzy med, but it makes me sleeeeeepy.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

I've had that nasty lil malady, positional vertigo looked at. I found for me that I need to make sure I have enough calcium, potassium and vitamin D in my life. If I do this most of my symptoms are 99% gone. It does sound weird on the calcium but but it turns out all three of those are both stress and meds sensitive. I hope this might help, coz this vertigo really sucks.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I drink a large glass of milk with every meal, plus other sources, so I think I have the calcium covered. Yay, calcium! And we're trying to raise general potassium count in meals around here because of timprov's meds being potassium-leaching.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, hope you feel better soon.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

What They Said. ¶ Plus all best & for the new year. ¶ with small, non-ouchy hugs

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Department of Can't Hurt and Might Help -- if you stand up and totally relax your jaw and let your mouth sag open in the fashion of one imitating a drooling imbicile, it relaxes a set of odd muscles that attach to the neck and upper spine -- and if those are involved in the back tension, it will then make it much easier to get at and relax other things around them.

Have you tried acupuncture? I've had very good results from it.

Future option: are there trains? Even if you have to go through Chicago and back again and take several days, it would be better than vertigo.

I hope optimum conditions are restored as soon as possible.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if the trains are a better option if I'm traveling with markgritter or not. There's the car -- we have one, we can drive it, we've done so before -- but the wear and tear on backs and the time consumed on his limited vacation (definitely through Chicago) has looked to be not worth it.

We'll redo the math on that factoring in strong probability of vertigo, but it may come out the same way.

For other trips, though, I will try to remember trains as a thought.

Drooling imbecile. Got it. Thanks.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Your dizzy is not my dizzy, so I can't really help with it. But I hope you feel better soon.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

An offer of help

[madmaster1.livejournal.com]

Hey there. My name is Carlin and I work as a personal trainer and health consultant in Arizona. Depending on your current issues with health and sickness I feel that I can help. If you wish please write me at revcsa@hotmail.com with any questions and I will help you as much as can be done. Also as a side note I will do this for free no strings attached. I just want to help a fellow writer. - Carlin

Re: An offer of help

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much, Carlin. That's very kind of you. Things are better now, and I've got a vertigo consultant for the long haul, but I really appreciate the offer.