I had always imagined the that spinning sensation of ‘vertigo’ would be a fairly gentle (if nauseating) sensation.
Not a violent and unprovoked assault.
When the bathroom floor decided to rotate itself through 90 degrees and smack me in the face at 6 o’clock this morning, I quite naturally assumed there had either been an earthquake, or someone had pulled my feet from underneath me.
It rapidly became clear that himself had not taken it upon himself to rugby tackle me maliciously in the early hours of the day.
And fortunately, the Hampshire/Surrey border has not become an earth quake zone.
It would appear that my attempt to get up close and personal with the ceramic tiles and a certain amount of dust, was the result of a vestibular malfunction.
Whilst relatively unscathed, my confidence in my ability to remain upright has been somewhat dented.
Meanwhile Rachael has developed a charming little bug which involves enthusiastic vomiting and a nasty case of conjunctivitis.
So if you spot a rather sad looking red-eyed puppy accompanied by a woman walking gingerly with her head fixed in one position. That will be us.
Hopefully we will be returned to good working order shortly!
Hi Pippa
just seen this so I’m hoping by now you are absolutely fine. However, if you still have any vestiges left it might be worth getting an MLD treatment or two. Manual Lymph drainage sounds hideous but it actually a very gentle massage technique often used after plastic surgery or mastectomies to help reduce swelling by encouraging lymph circulation. I had labyrintitis a few years ago – one of the few conditions that my nutrition skills were absolutely useless for and that medicine had no answers for other than seasick pills. A combination of MLD – which actually wasn’t fun as it involved massaging the soft palate at the back of the mouth – yuk and cranial osteopathy got me back on my feet without dizziness in 3 weeks as opposed to the normal months.
Hi Carole, I’m much better than I was though not quite there yet, I will look into MLD if progress stalls. Much appreciated. 🙂