I had a physical a few weeks ago, and my doctor asked me, “How do you take a walk?” I looked at her as if she was a lunatic. “I have vertigo. Why would I voluntarily take a walk?” “For exercise?” “I have the gym and Erik the super-strong trainer for that.” “But don’t you […]
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In the past four weeks, I have clogged a toilet, broken my car’s windshield washers, broken a mammogram machine, and broken the fancy goggles that the vestibular therapist in Canada uses to look at my nystagmus. And last week, my computer went into constant kernel panics. A lesser person might say I was jinxed. I
I’m all for being green. We recycle. We moved to the compact florescent light bulbs early—probably too early. Mark grumbled about expensive those first generation light bulbs were. Now when we throw out the garbage, we have a tiny little bag of garbage, and big bins of plastic, newspapers, tin, and cardboard. Our recycling comingles.
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Before I started the vertigo meds, I often got angry, depressed, scared, and upset. I still get depressed, feel overwhelmed, and cry. I do this less often now, because the meeds give me so much more control over my every day life. Even with the meds, my limitations sometimes scare me, or make me angry
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Johanna Rothman’s Create an Adaptable Life Vol 1, #1: What’s the Worst Thing That Can Happen? Aug 1, 2011 In This Issue: What’s the Worst Thing that Can Happen? AYE Conference Welcome to the Create Adaptable Life email newsletter What’s the Worst Thing That Can Happen? When you are attempting to create your adaptable life,
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I’m in Toronto today, experimenting with a new vertigo treatment, called the Brainport. It’s teaching my tongue to learn where I am in space, to relearn my proprioception. Why am I in Canada? Because the FDA hasn’t approved it for use in the US. And, I suspect that the FDA non-approval has a lot to
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I fly a lot. So, I walk through a lot of airports. I have trouble walking in a straight line. But, I can see where I am going. I can anticipate running into people. I can see when we are on a collision course. And, there are a number of people who think it is
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I was on a panel last night, in standard JR form. The topic was, “Is Agile for you?” (The answer is not always.) I ranted, I raved. I interrupted. I waved my arms. I exploded when someone was wrong. I love panels. They bring out the super-extrovert in me. No mamby-pamby positioning for me on
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