Hey there, awesome readers!
Compared to yesterday’s vertigo fiasco, today already feels better. And I have SO MUCH to catch up on. If you’ve never had vertigo, let me tell you what it’s like…
It’s the evening and you think, “tomorrow’s a big day. I have this, that, and the other thing to do.”
And then you go to bed feeling confident that all is well in the world.
Until you wake up…
Before you even open your eyes, you can feel that something is off. And then you open your eyes and realize that the room is spinning so fast, you can’t focus on anything.
“It will pass,” you tell yourself. “It has to pass. I have this, that, and the other thing to do.”
You make an attempt at your morning routine. You make the coffee and climb back into bed with your mug because you just need to take it slow this morning. That’s what you tell yourself.
Then you walk into your office and settle in front of your screens. “I’ve got this,” you say out loud. Another lie.
Suddenly the room is a meld of whirling objects, and the nausea starts to stir in the soul of your stomach. Within .003 seconds you’re stumbling toward the bathroom because OH MY GOD I’M GOING TO THROW UP.
You tread back into your office, using the walls as guardrails because your brain can’t compute the difference between up and down.
“Okay. I should feel better now,” you tell yourself. Yup. Another lie.
You try. You try to focus on the first thing you need to do. You try to read the words in your emails. And that’s when you realize that the room and everything in it is spinning so fast, that life is impossible in the moment. As hard as you try, you just can’t do it. And by ‘it’ I mean ANYTHING.
With the walls holding you up, you zigzag into your bedroom with your laptop under your arm.
With this, that, and the other thing convening on your intentions, you think, “Fine. I’ll just work from a horizontal position.”
Until finally you have no choice but to give up. You set your laptop aside and close your eyes.
“Ha ha,” says vertigo. “I win.”
It’s awesome.
And if you do suffer from vertigo, my apologies. I didn’t mean to make you relive the hell that is this crazy-ass phenomenon where tiny crystals in your inner ear decide to play the piano across these little hairs whose only job is to tell your brain which way is up.
All that to say… today already feels better. And I’m grateful for that.
Until next time, mother f*cker. Yeah. I’m talking to you, vertigo.
Ewww vertigo! It’s kept me from enjoying some views but not from walking around the house, except maybe as one of a batch of nastier flu symptoms…until recently…after eating green peas and pea products. If it started after about 2022 I think it may be another chemical spray that needs to be banned.
A friend loved those pea-based Incredible Burgers. I could see her feeling tired and dizzy after eating one but she hated for anyone to notice her having vertigo. She was diagnosed with “an aberrant form of Parkinson’s Disease.” Somehow I don’t think that was it. Anyway, she also has eye trouble and hasn’t driven back to town for a few years. (Her husband drove by once to insist I send her a monthly e-mail. No problem; I hope he or their children read them to her. Nobody’s ever bothered to e-mail back. Rich people….)