i had another experience of dizziness this morning - right here at my own chair, and went back to bed, did the epley maneuver, took a pill, and took a nap.
i could say that dizziness is extremely unpleasant, but it's not. the world just spins slightly and you can't focus on anything. the unpleasant aspect is that even being able to walk to the bed can be difficult. That and knowing that if i were driving on a highway, it could be fatal. that part of it and the disruption of one's life is unpleasant. the dizziness itself is just dizziness. i don't know the cause. i don't know whether the epley maneuver actually helped, because soon after i took the pill, i fell asleep. it seemed to help.
in the epley maneuver you simply lay down on the bed, stick your head over the edge (lower than your main body - you also have pillows under your back) and turn your head to either side. it supposedly works for 95% of vertigo sufferers. this is my new world.
i was planning on taking kids to alamo on a supply run, but that plan got shelved and my wife did it instead. it's been raining a lot here and one danger now of going an hour down the hill is that you might get stranded down there - this happened to several people at the same time yesterday. we had set out for the airport at about two and were unable to make it - flight canceled, trip rescheduled, girls in tears and very angry. but there was nothing anyone could do - highway washed out, only one road out of the mountains.
i woke up after a short nap with the house quiet, my wife gone to alamo. in silence i worked on a few of my own things. i'm leaving my hearing aids out for the moment, silence being much more pleasant, and enjoying the soft continuing rain. in some places it's 120, scorching, with fires; here, it's been raining for about a week, with scattered flooding. people are grateful for the rain - it's been scorched-earth dry here for about a year - but the land doesn't soak up rain well here, and any constant rain like what we've had, sometimes doesn't go away very quickly.
i could say that dizziness is extremely unpleasant, but it's not. the world just spins slightly and you can't focus on anything. the unpleasant aspect is that even being able to walk to the bed can be difficult. That and knowing that if i were driving on a highway, it could be fatal. that part of it and the disruption of one's life is unpleasant. the dizziness itself is just dizziness. i don't know the cause. i don't know whether the epley maneuver actually helped, because soon after i took the pill, i fell asleep. it seemed to help.
in the epley maneuver you simply lay down on the bed, stick your head over the edge (lower than your main body - you also have pillows under your back) and turn your head to either side. it supposedly works for 95% of vertigo sufferers. this is my new world.
i was planning on taking kids to alamo on a supply run, but that plan got shelved and my wife did it instead. it's been raining a lot here and one danger now of going an hour down the hill is that you might get stranded down there - this happened to several people at the same time yesterday. we had set out for the airport at about two and were unable to make it - flight canceled, trip rescheduled, girls in tears and very angry. but there was nothing anyone could do - highway washed out, only one road out of the mountains.
i woke up after a short nap with the house quiet, my wife gone to alamo. in silence i worked on a few of my own things. i'm leaving my hearing aids out for the moment, silence being much more pleasant, and enjoying the soft continuing rain. in some places it's 120, scorching, with fires; here, it's been raining for about a week, with scattered flooding. people are grateful for the rain - it's been scorched-earth dry here for about a year - but the land doesn't soak up rain well here, and any constant rain like what we've had, sometimes doesn't go away very quickly.
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