Repetitive Mris Is Repetitive.

[mrissa]

Yesterday I tried markgritter's idea for getting me longer stretches of computer time so that novel revisions might be easier for me. Epic FAIL. Uff da. I'm glad he was using engineering-brain on this problem, since he has the data points needed to think about possibilities without driving me nuts. The attempt was worth the epic fail. But wow, was that a lot of no good.

So not a lot of screen-time for me yesterday afternoon/evening, and in fact this morning's PT was still recovering in quality. So I think I'm going to back off the computer for the morning and see how we're doing then.

This could ease up any time now. That'd be fine.

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[callunav.livejournal.com]

This could ease up any time now. That'd be fine.

Yeah. I'd be okay with that.




I'm sorry that the TV work-around didn't work. Epic fail, however informative, still sucks.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I am sure you have thought of this, so I ask purely for my own edification.

Does laptop time, possibly wedged securely in the corner of the couch, work at all? Or is it simply a matter of not being able to look firmly ahead/down long enough to get any work done?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Laptop time does not help and may be slightly worse than desktop time. But it's not that I'm swaying in my desk chair. It's that my body is processing sway that isn't there.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

What is it about computer time that makes it worse? I think that's the part I am failing to internalize.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have been trying to figure out a way to phrase this that will not be rude to a friend who is trying to be caring and understand what's going on with me and yet also will not encourage others to think that I welcome the opportunity to explain these things at length. Because I have been vague about stuff we've tried for a reason, and that reason was something your first comment made me think you understood: we've tried a lot of stuff, and I don't really care to go through the list over and over again. After the fourteenth time you've told someone that yes, actually you did think of dictation software, or yes, you knew that ginger is supposed to help with nausea, it gets to be a bit much. Especially because biting the heads off of people who are trying to be nice is really counterproductive and counterindicated.

But to answer the specific question here: when one's vestibular system is malfunctioning, the visual system is one of the backups one uses to figure out what is upright and what is stable. But part of the oogy nasty feeling comes when one is receiving conflicting signals: that your ears are saying that you're leaning to the side while your eyes are saying that you're sitting straight upright, or your ears are telling you you're moving while your eyes are telling you you're sitting still. The longer I do a particular visual activity, the more the discrepancy gets highlighted, and the worse I feel.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Ah. That makes perfect sense now that I have heard it, but I was having a heck of a time getting there on my own.

Sorry for the obtuseness. :/

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Bleh.

That's all. Just bleh.

And moral support.

[keilexandra]

If this falls into the category of unwanted unsolicited advice, please feel free to utterly ignore me.

Does the vertigo get better if you don't have to focus with your eyes? E.g. I'm assuming you can touch-type, so perhaps using the laptop lying down (completely flat on your lap or whereever feels most comfortable) without looking at the screen, might help. For drafting, anyway. For revisions, the only possibility I can think of is screen-reading software and a helpful person to enter the edits.

My best wishes for the easing up sooner rather than later.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, this is why I've been able to draft short stories.