Today was my last evaluation at the Elks Rehab Hearing and Balance Clinic. When I went in, I was feeling great. I was like.."Wow! Maybe I don't need all these therapies. They are gonna test me today and find out that I am perfectly normal!" Famous last words!
Dayna started asking me questions and just answering all of her questions made my brain hurt. Then she had me turning my head fast and asking, "Does that make you dizzy/". Oy vey! I can't tell you how many times she gave me some action to perform either with just my eyes or my entire body with the question, "Does that make you dizzy?" to follow.
It kind of reminds me of when my kids would find something that had gone bad in the fridge and then ask their daddy, "Does this taste bad?" Really, who wants to taste it and find out? That is kind of the way I felt about these tests today. Yes, I have told you I experience dizziness and things like that, do I really have to do these exercises to prove to you that I get dizzy?
Some of these tests were the same kinds of tests the doctor gave me yesterday and I had great balance yesterday. But today they were just a bit different (I guess that is what happens when you get a specialist running the tests). Anyway, I found out that my balance is not as great as I would like it to be and its a really good thing she positioned me in a corner to use walls to protect me from a fall cause, Wow! I won't be belly dancing or doing Zumba any time soon, that's for certain! Between the dizziness and the nausea, I was really glad I didn't eat before my appointment!
One of the things that was determined today is that when I bonked my head, I knocked loose the crystals in my inner ear that help regulate balance. So today after much torture, we did a treatment to get the crystals to move back into place to stop the vertigo that I have been feeling. Now that I have had the treatment, I am not allowed to lay down flat, bend over or look/reach up. Which means no laundry, no dishes, no feeding the animals..whatever. I can lay down flat tonight when I go to bed, but until then, NOPE. When I am doing my 30 minutes of nothing, I can sit in the recliner but only at 45 degree angles. This is gonna be fun!
Ya know as bad as these doctors and therapists get me to feel, they then follow up with a very sympathetic look and say, "This will end. You WILL recovery." I know this is true, but wow, during these tests they sure can make a person feel icky!
Okay. Time to get 30 minutes of nothing in and rest my head. Thanks for reading and supporting me on this journey!
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