About 18 months ago, I noticed that my vertigo symptoms were changing. I brought a list of my symptoms and when things had started to change. I wrote about this and my choices in Making Difficult Choices. If you are trying to solve a nasty problem in your code, tests or your projects, it’s the […]
I went shopping with Daughter #2 this weekend. Yes, we braved the post-Christmas mall craziness. I brought my rollator so I could more easily pack water and have a place to sit. The rollator was a great idea for managing my vertigo. But there was a side effect. I seem to be invisible with my
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Have you seen Inside a Vertigo Attack? I never expected the kinds of comments I’m getting. That’s because there aren’t too many first-person accounts of what it’s like to live with vertigo. My dizziness is called oscillopsia, because I have no vestibulo-ocular reflex on my right side. That means when my head goes up and
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In a comment on Forwards, Backwards, Who Cares?, Sherry noted that she recently started to wear progressive glasses. I’ve been wearing them for more than a decade. So, when I had my first eye exam after my vertigo, my eye doctor wondered if she should take them away. “Why would you do that?” I asked.
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Yesterday, Mark came banging down the stairs. Clang, clang clang. “Do you need me to do something for you?” I yelled through the door. I was somewhat alarmed. “Nope, I got it.” He sounded positively gleeful. By the time I got to my office doorway he had stopped making so much noise. He was putting
I read a book on vacation, Lawrence Gonzales’s, Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience. He has a very different take on resilience than Siebert does. His chapter 14 is entitled “The Science of Adaptation: There’s No Revenge Like Success.” How can you not like a chapter like that?? Things happen to each of
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During one of my workouts with Bill, my trainer, I was having trouble with something. I said, “Let’s do it again. I’m too stubborn to give up.” I was talking about doing leg lifts or some such. He said, “You’re the good kind of stubborn, the kind of person who grows from your stubbornness, not
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I was at the Agile 2012 conference last week. I was only 8 weeks post-op from my knee replacement and my knee was great. Unfortunately, I had sprained my ankle (same leg) the previous week. So I was not 100%. The hotel was one of the sprawling megaplexes, the Gaylord Texas. The hotel rooms are
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In Siebert’s model (see The Resiliency Advantage), part 2 of building your emotional resilience is problem-solving. Well, I know a lot about problem-solving. I teach Problem Solving Leadership with Jerry and Esther. Siebert says, on p. 54 of the book: The most resilient people, in contrast, control their emotional reactions in a crisis, engage the
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I had another vertigo attack last week. I had a head cold, possibly a case of the flu, and boom, a vertigo attack. I wrote it up, so you could see what’s it like to be inside a vertigo attack. It’s not fun. My assessment of where I am physically, is that my balance is
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