SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18th - 2008

Today I had to take one of these:  

It was not good.  These are my dizzy pills.  About a year and a half ago I got really sick.  It came out of nowhere.  I was fine one minute and the next the room was spinning so much I couldn't stand up.  Next came the violent vomiting.  I have NEVER felt like that in my whole life.  Brian took me to the emergency room.  It turns out I had vertigo.  I thought that was odd.  I always thought vertigo had something to do with heights.  Mine was due to an inner ear infection.   The problem is, I have some permanent hearing damage in my right ear.  So, chances are I would experience this again.  And, I did.  Not so violently the next time because my doctor gave me these pills to combat it.  So, any time I felt it coming on I would take one of the pills.  At first I was having quite a few recurrences.  But, I haven't had one in a long time.  Not for at least 5 months.  I was beginning to think I was over it.  

Today I was feeling a little out of it all day.  Nothing too serious, just a little run down.  Then tonight I felt the dizzy coming on.  I really didn't want to take the pill.  While it does a really good job with combating the dizzy, nauseous feeling, it also totally knocks you out.  I'm talking like 12 - 24 hours here.  I fought it as long as I could, but I had to end up taking one tonight.  Who knew a tiny little pink pill could be so powerful?