GRRR....

As an adult DO NOT allow an ear ache go for a week. This can lead to BIG problems if you do. Let me go back. Last year in Sept. I got an ear ache. I just thought it was from the excessive swimming I was doing. Well it didnt hurt all day so I ignored it. A week later I couldnt even turn my head to the right on Friday night. So I went into the ER. Severe ear infection! WOW! Okay fast forward a few weeks. I am in the car outside my daughter's school and decide to clean out the car some. So I am cleaning out the car and all of a sudden I am dizzy. REALLY DIZZY! I was getting nauseaus and everything. School was finally over and I had to drive home this way. It was very scary. I just kept praying that we could get home safely. So I get home and toss my cookies and have to lay down. A few hours later I was still nauseaus but my head wasnt spinning. I thought it was food poisoning. It went away no problems.... Fast forward to New Years Eve. I am out in some area I have never been to pick up the girls from our ward after the dance. It hits again. I get home and again toss my cookies. Get to sleep and I am fine in the morning. Well sometime in Jan I read a book that was talking about positional vertigo. It sounded familiar. So I went and looked it up. Positional vertigo can start from an ear infection. Okay so what is it?? Positional vertigo is (from emedicine.com) small particles become dislodged within the inner ear and then bounce around when your head moves, triggering faulty signals that your head is still moving even after it stops. This sensation of movement or imbalance when you are not moving is called vertigo.

Anyways I said I am not going to go into the doctors because I havent had any spells. Well guess what. Last night after again having no clear cut reason for it it happened again. (I didnt toss my cookies for once YEAH!) I did learn though that you shouldnt try and listen to your IPOD when you are dizzy. Why? because it makes your head spin faster! So how do you save yourself from your snoring husband when you have vertigo AND you cant use your IPOD?? You die. I thought I was but eventually I fell asleep. I woke up again fine! GRRR this is just a pain in my butt!