Woke up this morning with vertigo [View all]

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I didn’t know it was vertigo. All I knew is that the world was spinning around me. Ordinarily, this would be fine as I’m pretty much convinced that the world revolves around me. But it was in fact pretty scary. I didn’t know it was vertigo. I didn’t think about vertigo. If asked, I would’ve said that vertigo was the title of a movie, and that was the extent of my knowledge of the word or condition. I just thought I was having a stroke.

Call 911 for the first time in my life.

They came and told me I didn’t have a stroke, that I probably had vertigo, and then my wife drove me to the hospital while I lay down the backseat, feeling like a kidnap victim. By the way, it’s really hard to keep track of left turns and right turns as characters in books and movies seem to be able to do. Got to see an excellent ER doctor who told me I was having vertigo, prescribed some medication, and I spent the rest of the morning morning, groaning, and feeling sorry for myself, and sleeping, until I was OK enough to go home about four hours later.

This was not my idea of a good start to the day, and it reinforced my absolute conviction that getting old really sucks.