Good morning and so glad you are back home. I'm sorry that you were feeling so poorly yesterday but glad you went to the hospital to be checked out. I sure hope they can determine the cause so you can prevent further episodes. I will keep positive thoughts and prayers for you and hope you have a calm, uneventful day. I hope everyone enjoys a beautiful day and I challenge everyone to do an extra 10 minutes of exercise today in honor of Julie who does such a great job moderating our message board!

Wow. Just wow. Sending out a round of extremely positive thoughts for any one in need. Giant cyber hugs and healing energies too, if you want them...

I hope everyone makes a full recovery and makes the progress they desperately desire, need, and deserve.

As for vertigo/inner ear/balance problems. I always got car sick as a kid and teen, so my mom always said I had inner ear problems. Fast forward to adulthood, and the issues have now progressed enough that my ears pop constantly (related to allergies and faulty internal pressurizing sensors) and that if I close my eyes, I feel like a drunken sailor on land for the first time in years. I sway and weave and bob - or feel like I do.

So, I went the whole round of testing (shooting water at your eardrum to simulate vertigo and balance test, the works!) and guess what? I do not have an inner ear imbalance. They called it something like benign positional vertigo - or motion related horizontal vertigo. Which oddly enough resolved itself mostly. Then, after passing the balance testing with flying colors, they said that it isn't that at all...

Layperson's description - if you don't know, you balance is determine by sensory data from your feet, eyes, ears - and is interpreted by your brain. Well, my feet, eyes, and ears all send the data in, but my brain, well, doesn't understand it exactly. The doctor likened it to using different versions of software - it mostly works, but some of the special features don't translate from version to version.

So, long and short of it, y'all, is that my doctor called me brain damaged. Because I feel like I'm moving even when standing still if my eyes are closed. To compensate, I do start moving as an attempt to "counterbalance" something that doesn't exist outside of my mind, so yeah, it's awesome. Luckily it doesn't happen much anymore, but thought that might brighten someone's day.

HUGS again to ALLL!!!!

Carly in sleep-deprived Oklahoma, who is so out of sync she forgot meds that are making her....weird...not really more weird than normal, just disconcerted...so take advantage of it while it lasts, kids...

So sorry to hear about everyone's health issues.

My time is stretched so thin these days I am having a hard time coping with it. We were volunteered to provide the team dinner for the football team on Thursday. Three football games this week, one kid home sick yesterday, trying to figure out how much food is needed for 60 teen boys, cooking the food...this on top of the usual everyday practices and schedules. I am so tired. My son hurt his knee on Monday so he isn't doing his usual chores. I haven't had time to get on my bike since Sunday.

I am managing to get in my hour or so of treadmill time and it helps some. Kind of sad but I don't feel human unless I get in some sort of activity. I really need a break. I find myself staying up way too late to try to get in some relaxation by reading but then I am dead tired the next day. Six more weeks until football winds down...not sure I will make it.