Another spin of the wheel, or of the merry-go-round

The only amusement ride I've ever liked. 

I’msorry that I didn’t write a blog on Wednesday, but the Wheel of Misfortune spuna new one on me. This time it wasn’t pain, it was vertigo. Room-spinning,floor-tilting, nauseating vertigo.

I had one ER trip, one doctor’s office visit, and one therapy appointment, inthree days. If any of you have ever had this – medical term usually being BenignPositional Vertigo, or BPV – you know it can be debilitating. We’ve all been dizzyor off-balance, but this is like having had too much to drink and then steppingon an amusement park ride, but there’s nothing amusing about it.

Thecure is simple – something called the Epley Maneuver. (I know BPV alreadysounds a little sketchy and then you do some kind of maneuver? Creepy.) (Justkidding.) 

Workingin health care, I’ve heard of this before, but silly me, I was under the assumptionthat this little maneuver would cure the vertigo after one hit. Nothing is everthat easy, right? And certainly not that easy in my life.

So,I do this thing – turn my head and lay down and let the dizziness pass – twice aday and it should get better in a few weeks. It’s all from crystals in our earsgetting into the wrong canal and this move makes them shift back to where theybelong. I still find it hard to believe that this is actual traditional Westernmedicine.

Anyway,wish me luck, once again.