Worst day ever !

[Tinhack]

Following... if only to make sure you 'get there'.

I'm thinking a T-Shirt brought you here.

 

[350c]

I need to find someone like you up here in my area.
I've tried hiring "handy men" around here and haven't found one worth a damn yet. I have a "contractor" at this time that I like personally but he is completely unreliable.

Sadly, there are very few, if any, like you in our area, EddieWalker!

 

[RSKY]

I guess I will have to put a warning on our Facebook Neighborhood Watch page about my walking. I reread the instructions and I'm supposed to walk one half mile with a guide and with my eyes closed!! Wife led me down the driveway Monday with my hand on her shoulder for guidance. She kept telling me to quit pushing her. After about ten steps I would make a left turn and bump into her. I guess I will have to get one of the grands to take me walking.

On the other hand I spent a couple hours yesterday afternoon pulling up some large shrubs and hollies for neighbors so they can enlarge their back deck. Spent all my time in the tractor seat while one of my buddies hooked the cable around the bushes. The couple I did most of the work for were impressed by what could be done with 22-hp and a ton and more of cast iron. What we couldn't pull up I used the Pirahna Bar to dig up. Also pushed gravel out of the road and back onto their driveway and smoothed it out. They wanted to pay me or buy us a steak dinner and I told them that I might need their help someday. And besides, that was fun.

RSKY

 

[TugHillDog]

I want to apologize for sounding like a little b---ch crying this morning. That is not my usual style. I just had a bad yesterday. Then got up before my wife, fixed some scrambled eggs and stumbled into a door facing and dumped them in the floor. THAT set off my self pity crying party.

I know what the problem is and am being treated for it. It's called Ménière's disease. I had surgery for it in 1992 or 93 and the doctor said the installed shunt would be good for thirty years. I made it 32. The son of that doctor is treating me now. Fourth generation ear surgeon in a clinic that his great grandfather started. Said he was in the operating room watching his dad do surgery at 14. Supposed to be one of the best in the country. Has patients from all over the world. Takes long enough to get an appointment.

Anyway, the first step of the treatment was a needle thru the eardrum and injection of a drug to "permanently numb" the nerves from my right inner ear to the brain. Drug cannot be injected into the inner ear, has to be put in the middle ear and soak thru to the inner part. Went back for a six-week checkup last Monday and told of all the problems I was having and the doc was pleased. Said people that had my problems usually had the best end results. Said it takes a while for the brain to get used to only getting signals from one side. The problems I am having are a sign that things are working as they are supposed to. I go back in six more weeks and will probably have a second injection. Said he uses a smaller dose than most doctors so as to not destroy my hearing. So instead of one big dose I will have at least two but probably three profusions as they are called. I have a page of weird exercises I am supposed to do like rolling your eyes as you walk. And walk 2-miles a day no matter the weather.

The walk is the main thing to speed up the cure. Doctor said when walking NO CANES, NO LEANING ON SHOPPING CARTS, NO PUSHING A STROLLER. He emphasized that over and over. If you want strange looks try walking thru Walmart with vertigo. I know people think I'm drunk or drugged up. Spent most of the afternoon cutting up limbs and old boards and burning them in my burn barrel. Tore down an old small chicken house and burned it. I was extremely careful when approaching the red hot barrel and never fell when close to it. Wife was not happy but I was doing something she had wanted done for nearly two years. So she gritted her teeth and pulled grass out of flower beds while watching me work.

Anyway, I have at least twelve more weeks of this before I will know if the treatments are a cure. BUT, when I told him of the problems I was having and my wife started telling him what I had left out he actually smiled and said that everything was going as expected.

I will survive and I promise no more posts crying like a little b1tch.

Guess the ski trip if off this winter.

RSKY

Eh. Don't worry about the posting or your perception of it. Its pretty good for all of us to remember that we are mortal. That bit of humility is good for us. I am happy to read this second post in that you have a solution at hand and are facing it and slogging through. I am praying that the road to recovery is quicker than the doctor expects and that full recovery is yours.
God bless and keep us posted please.

 

[Dennis Mohn]

I am extremely frustrated and don't want to vent to my family so I am doing it here. Gotta be cheerful and optimistic around the family. I am afraid this constant dizziness and vertigo will be permanent and I will end up sitting on my constantly growing rear end and watching soap operas for the rest of my life. I have always kept the one acre lot we live on in tip top shape and have done nothing this year.

As part of the 'therapy' for my ongoing inner ear problems I was instructed to walk two miles a day "rain or shine". Before all this started I could make it in forty minutes. Takes me fifty minutes now. Yesterday while going up a slight incline the ground suddenly tilted down to the left and I staggered to the right and nearly took out a neighbor's mailbox, while on foot. The 4x4 it was mounted on must have been weak anyway and I made it weaker. I will fix it for her when I get a little better. Yep you read that right I collided with a mailbox while walking and nearly took it down. If it hadn't been there I would have been face down in the side ditch. I hung on to that mailbox for a while and the ground suddenly snapped back level and I made it back to the house.

We couldn't take our fall vacation this year because I am not allowed to drive. Wife, daughter, and granddaughter wouldn't let me get on the roof and clean out the gutters. They had to be cleaned out because the screens over them were piled up with leaves and a crew is coming to paint the house next week. So the daughter called a teacher friend in the neighborhood that she used to work with and he came and cleaned them. It was embarrassing to me. Cannot help son it law clear a thicket because they won't let me run a chainsaw. I am allowed to drive my little Kioti and the Bad Boy. Granddaughter took me to Lowes and wouldn't let me get out of arms reach because she was afraid I would fall. Can't walk thru the house without bouncing off walls and door facings.

I am frustrated!!

RSKY

You don't mention your age or other health issues that could be contributing to this, , but beside that listen to your docs and do the physical therapy they prescribe. I was injured in Afganastan, Had TBI, couldn
t walk or get on rooves as you stated. Followed they therapy and docs orders for home , now I get around pretty well, still walk into the walls once in a while and can get on the roof to do regular maintenance. By the way , I'm 73 now

 

[ponytug]

I don't believe I've met anyone who likes rehab, but as a path to getting better I can put up with it.

@RSKY +1 on getting to use the tractor to help neighbors. I wonder if the vibration and movement helps the brain rebalancing process. Regardless, I hope that you get better soon.

All the best, Peter

 

[thclimer]

Until I read about your issue I had never given someone's balance the respect that it deserves.

 

[papalynn]

Check your medicines. Most medicines can cause dizziness. I know this because it has happened to me. For several years I experienced dizziness and the doctors were of no use in identifying the cause. Having diabetes, copd and heart problems I take many meds. After several years of narrowing the cause of my dizziness by eliminating the meds one by one I found that it was the baby aspirin that I was told to take by my cardiologist after my heart attack. He changed the med to clopidogrel and dizziness is gone. Go figure. I am 83 and now I can walk straight again. Use chatgpt.com (AI)to help diagnose your problem. I did and it really helped. Good Luck.

 

[Aquabird]

Sorry to hear about your health problem. I would try to see if I could get into a Natural Doctor if I were you. He might have something to help you. I see one twice a year and he has helped me immensly with things my regular Dr. Could not.
Not sure of age, but from experience, the older I get, the more things I have to figure out how to do differently.
Good luck! You might pray about it if you are so inclined.

 

[Sid Post]

I am extremely frustrated and don't want to vent to my family so I am doing it here. Gotta be cheerful and optimistic around the family. I am afraid this constant dizziness and vertigo will be permanent and I will end up sitting on my constantly growing rear end and watching soap operas for the rest of my life. I have always kept the one acre lot we live on in tip top shape and have done nothing this year.

As part of the 'therapy' for my ongoing inner ear problems I was instructed to walk two miles a day "rain or shine". Before all this started I could make it in forty minutes. Takes me fifty minutes now. Yesterday while going up a slight incline the ground suddenly tilted down to the left and I staggered to the right and nearly took out a neighbor's mailbox, while on foot. The 4x4 it was mounted on must have been weak anyway and I made it weaker. I will fix it for her when I get a little better. Yep you read that right I collided with a mailbox while walking and nearly took it down. If it hadn't been there I would have been face down in the side ditch. I hung on to that mailbox for a while and the ground suddenly snapped back level and I made it back to the house.

We couldn't take our fall vacation this year because I am not allowed to drive. Wife, daughter, and granddaughter wouldn't let me get on the roof and clean out the gutters. They had to be cleaned out because the screens over them were piled up with leaves and a crew is coming to paint the house next week. So the daughter called a teacher friend in the neighborhood that she used to work with and he came and cleaned them. It was embarrassing to me. Cannot help son it law clear a thicket because they won't let me run a chainsaw. I am allowed to drive my little Kioti and the Bad Boy. Granddaughter took me to Lowes and wouldn't let me get out of arms reach because she was afraid I would fall. Can't walk thru the house without bouncing off walls and door facings.

I am frustrated!!

RSKY

Best wishes for a good resolution to your health challenges.