Even though I'm not Dragaeran

[mrissa]

The magic number is 17.

That is: yesterday I got my steady time as usual, and instead of stopping in the 3-6 hour range, it continued for 17 hours straight. Seventeen hours without vertigo! That's the longest stretch I've had in two years. I got a full night's sleep without dreaming of space stations malfunctioning or carnival rides malfunctioning or anything, anything at all malfunctioning.

It ended this morning, about an hour ago--I am dizzy, vertiginous, unbalanced again. And I have to admit that even after all this time there was a part of me that thought, "Maybe I'm just done now. Maybe I don't have to deal with this stuff any more," and was disappointed when that proved not to be the case.

But 17 hours. This is what we call progress. Maybe. We hope. Otherwise it's what we call a really nice fluke. But we're hoping it's what we call progress.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Yahoo! Whatever it was, I'm glad you got it.

[shana.livejournal.com]

Yay! May the progress continue!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yay! May it continue!

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad you had that 17-hour break from the vertigo.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

That's outstanding. What a wonderful break. Here's to progress and not a fluke.

[thoughtdancer.livejournal.com]

The joy of a good night's sleep.

So, is there anything different now from the last time? (I'm wondering vaguely about allergies.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, my mold allergies are at the same level of "mild annoyance" as they were last time.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Yay!! Seventeen is the BEST number. Besides 18, and 24, and things like that.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

I'm not exactly sure what to say, but I'm glad you had 17 hours. Dear Mrissa's vertigo: let's go for 24!

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

that's a couple.

:)

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

It is, at the very least, a GREAT fluke! Whee!

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Progress. And a good start too.

So, if you were Dragaeran, which House would you be?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

mrissa dreams, and plots are born.

At least that was my theory. skzbrust seemed to think Lyorn or something else, and I forget what the something else was.

(Does a Lyorn in short skirts still kick one's ass? Hmm.)

[p-j-cleary.livejournal.com]

I hope this is the start of longer and longer stretches until there are no breaks in your vertigo-less-ness.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Not bad.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, could be worse.

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

Hurray. This news made my morning. Even if it is a fluke, I hope it repeats itself often enough to become a pattern. Ya know?

[redbird]

Yay! I hope this continues.

(I almost didn't comment, because you had 17 comments when I looked, but I figured at least one person wouldn't check there, or wouldn't care.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

In fact, I got several e-mails from people who saw 17 comments and wanted to wish me well without "breaking" the number. This amuses me.

[ckd]

It would be more amusing if you'd received 17 of them....

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

I didn't reply when I first saw this for that very reason.

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

Whoo, 17!

[marydell.livejournal.com]

That's really good.

(It said "17 comments" when I initially looked, and so like redbird I hesitated to comment and spoil that, but I see that we've already moved onward).

[skzbrust.livejournal.com]

If I had 17 fingers, I'd be crossing them all for you.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

17 hours is excellent. Here's hoping it happens again, soon, and for more than 17 hours.

[aedifica]

I'm so glad you got a night's sleep with nothing malfunctioning!

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

Excellent! SO excellent!

May your steady time only increase.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

Good going. May the intervals just get longer, until being between them is the anomaly which stops happening.

[pezwitch.livejournal.com]

I'm happy for you!

[rosefox]

17 has always been my second-favorite number! I'm delighted that it's doing good things for you.

It also reminds me of the Star, the 17th card in the Major Arcana of the Tarot. The Star is all about hope, healing, and balance, too. An excellent omen.

[ckd]

That is an excellent omen indeed...balance, in the literal sense.

(And now I can comment since I won't be a 17-breaker!)

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

What's your first-favorite?

(Also, go Mris.)

[rosefox]

8, because it's 2^3 and because it's infinity flipped on its side.

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping it's progress. If a fluke, a nice fluke.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

HOMG Marissa! That's amazing. 17 hours. Dayum.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

34!

I don't have a Kirby icon, so here is Justin-who-is-one-less.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Yay! *waves lit sparkler* (carefully, so as not to scorch the internets)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh good; I forgot to put the "don't burn down the internets while I'm gone" notice when I went to get my back fixed. Whew.

[ckd]

Amusing statistic of the day:

Time from original post to 17th comment: 0 hr 41 min 48 sec
Time from original post to 18th comment: 1 hr 50 min 43 sec

(And I don't know how long it would have gone if redbird hadn't commented.)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

frog?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Frog.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

<3!!!!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I see your frog and raise you a penguin.

Here's to progress - and hopes.

[aliseadae]

Hooray!

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I hope you get much, much more of this.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

17 hours = awesome

dizzy again = not so awesome.

But hope it is indeed progress!