Eartrian Odyssey
Sep. 8th, 2011 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnOnce again I found myself in the doctor's office today, through no fault of my own. Yesterday, I had been feeling dizzy from when I got up - the kind of feeling you get when you haven't had enough sleep, but it stayed through most of the day. At about four o'clock, it became really bad, as if the entire room was spinning, and I had to stumble outside, trying to compensate for the way that gravity now seemed to be sliding sharply forwards and to the left.
I called the medical advice line, who thought that without any other symptoms, it was probably an ear infection called labyrinthitis - which in terms of names of diseases to get is pretty impressive, up beside thegooniesnia and Dark Crystal syndrome. I spent the rest of the evening in bed, just trying not to move and wondering if I could have got some sort of bacteria or virus from going somewhere new and insecty like the cornfield maze last weekend.
This morning I felt a lot better - I'm still very aware of my head movements while walking and don't really like moving around too much, but the doctor had me do various balance and awareness exercises and couldn't find any long-term warning signs. So the self-treatment I've been advised to perform is of staying hydrated, sitting for a couple of minutes before getting up from lying down, and just generally moving in slow-motion like the Six Million Dollar Man - humming the Chariots of Fire music constantly helps limit my speed. Whatever small infection it was, I'm told I'm already recovering well from it.
Which is just as well, because if I had gone to a maze and come back with labyrinthitis, nobody would ever stop laughing at me for the rest of time.
I called the medical advice line, who thought that without any other symptoms, it was probably an ear infection called labyrinthitis - which in terms of names of diseases to get is pretty impressive, up beside thegooniesnia and Dark Crystal syndrome. I spent the rest of the evening in bed, just trying not to move and wondering if I could have got some sort of bacteria or virus from going somewhere new and insecty like the cornfield maze last weekend.
This morning I felt a lot better - I'm still very aware of my head movements while walking and don't really like moving around too much, but the doctor had me do various balance and awareness exercises and couldn't find any long-term warning signs. So the self-treatment I've been advised to perform is of staying hydrated, sitting for a couple of minutes before getting up from lying down, and just generally moving in slow-motion like the Six Million Dollar Man - humming the Chariots of Fire music constantly helps limit my speed. Whatever small infection it was, I'm told I'm already recovering well from it.
Which is just as well, because if I had gone to a maze and come back with labyrinthitis, nobody would ever stop laughing at me for the rest of time.
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Date: 2011-09-08 08:00 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-09 03:39 am (UTC)It's no less than you deserve for all the things I've probably totally brought upon myself so never mind.
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Date: 2011-09-13 09:51 pm (UTC)