Another Post for Today....Vertigo!

I know, two posts in one day! But I just had to blog about this -- this "thing" that is invading my body.

I woke this morning with vertigo -- fortunately, I sat on the edge of the bed before getting up, so the room wouldn't spin and throw me to the ground. Last November, I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and went "splat" right against the wall on the side of my bed....not my intentional route.

I then bounced back to where I grabbed the footboard of my brass bed frame and felt the room spinning around. Geeze, I have to make it to the bathroom, I thought, so I lurched toward the bathroom door -- and collided with a chair, which, unfortunately, was a swivel chair, and it threw me away from the door and onto the floor. All the pictures, various and sundry articles of makeup, clattered to the floor with me. I then crawled to the bathroom and did nature's bidding, at last.
But this alarmed me so much that I next called my brother to please come and check me out to see if I needed to go to the ER. Maybe I'm having a stroke, I added. He came, checked me out as best as he could determine and we agreed that, with my medical history, I probably should go to the ER. He wanted to take me, but I said I would get better care from the paramedics here at home before they carted me away.
So the 911 call was made and soon the paramedics were there, checking my meds, checking me over, and then it was decided to be safe rather than sorry, so they transported me to the ER.

Funny thing....I get car sick easily, and here I am riding in an ambulance, backwards, with vertigo to boot. I avoided throwing up, as I certainly had embarrassed myself enough already by even calling the medics.

And sure enough, once I arrived at the ER at my favorite hospital (I joke that I'm a frequent flyer) the doctor checked me over, looked in my ears and pronounced inner ear fluid.

Boy, did I feel like a dummy. But better to be safe than sorry. I was prescribed medication and my brother took me home.

Everything was fine after that, until this morning. It's BAAAACK.

I have entirely too much on my plate today to have this inconvenience. So I staggered into the kitchen, took my meds and waited for the spinning sensation to leave. Then I went outside to get the morning paper, and hooray! I could bend over and not FALL over!

As I write this, I'm experiencing a bit of vertigo, but ignoring it. We who have lupus are pretty adept at learning to live with these inconveniences. I know the signs of a flare, now, so I am able to beat it down before it gets too bad.
I'm just irritated that now I have this extra "infirmity" laid upon me, and one of the problems I have with this is, what is "normal" for a person my age? Even without lupus?

Is it normal to experience vertigo when you have an allergy ? Dunno. I guess it's normal for me. Some of my friends have had it, too, so they can only give me their experiences with it.

It's bad enough to experience lupus, but when it collides with "normal" old age, I get a little testy. Let it be one or the other, I think, but not both at the same time, please.

Man plans, God laughs.

It could be a lot worse. I'm fortunate to even achieve "old age" status with this damn disease, in the first place. So I shrug it off.

Besides, I have plans for this evening. A friend of mine is here from out of town with her new fiance, and I sure want to meet them for dinner.

And if I have another vertigo attack, at least I'll have people around who can pick me up off the floor......