I made another mistake last week. It wasn’t a huge horrible mistake. But it was a mistake. I ordered the wrong books for PSL. I ordered Manage It! instead of Behind Closed Doors. Mark said, “No problem, you’ll just ship them home. Maybe you’ll even sell a few first.” My vertigo causes me to slow […]
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Incident #1. I travel a lot. TSA loves to see how my vertigo is doing. At least, I think that’s what they are doing, because they ask me to go through the body scanner about half the time I travel. I have seen more patterns when I travel during the day. When TSA is not
I learned a lot about my vertigo this week. I learned that cooking requires head turning. Now, some of you might be saying, “Duh, JR. I could have told you that.” Well, I didn’t think it required as much as it seems to. If you’d asked me before Sunday, I would have said, I didn’t
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On the side of my vertigo medicine bottle, it says “This drug may impair the ability to drive or operate machinery. Use care until you become familiar with its effects.” It should say, “You may become a ditzy blonde.” One of the side effects of this medicine for me, is that I become a little
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I have been achieving some small successes over the past few weeks. My doctors and I have been experimenting with a new medicine which has been helping damp down my vertigo. The results are astonishing. When I have a steady stream of medicine, as in when I wake up in the morning, I don’t stagger
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I promised a few posts ago I would answer the question, “Why did it take you so long” when Daniel asked me about using a cane. You see the same behavior in other situations: Widows who can’t clean out their husband’s clothes after 20 years, the woman who’d been laid off for several years who
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I’m in NYC at a client and was out for dinner last night with a friend and colleague. My vertigo is much worse at night, so as we were walking back to the hotel, I said, “I may need help walking.” Well, if that wasn’t they most wimpy way to ask for help, I don’t
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Asking for help is key to living an adaptable life, and boy, it’s a tough one for me. I’m getting a lot better at it. I was in Belgium last week, transferring through Heathrow to and from Brussels. On a good vertigo day, I can do slow-to-medium speed up-escalators. Down-escalators are difficult under almost any
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I’ve been living with vertigo and sudden hearing loss in my right ear since Sept 5, 2009. I had an intralabyrinthine hemorrhage, damaging my auditory nerve and one of my cochlear nerves. So, my hearing loss is permanent, due to nerve damage on my auditory nerve. I only had the whirling vertigo for a week
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