Dizzy Dean

Dizzy Dean


Or should that headline read, Dizzy DeanLand?



Over the weekend I began to feel a certain wooziness.  Not really
dizzy, but not certain on my feet.  On Saturday the vision in my
left eye was blurred.  So much so that I could not attend to my
e-mail, could barely post an item I'd already prepared for the blog,
and felt a loss of balance when trying to read.



I rallied a bit late Saturday, to take care of one very important
business item that was pressing, with a Monday deadline.  I did
it, mostly, with my left eye closed.



Sunday it seemed 95+% improved, enough that I drove into the city and back.   Oops --  bad idea.



Driving home I touched base with an associate, to discuss the work I'd
done Saturday night.  Using the cell phone was causing me to feel
a little disoriented, so we ended the call.  Things were downhill
from there.  The rest of  the drive back was otherworldly.



Clearly it was some sense of autopilot, or the brain taking command of
actions, a self-preservation sort of response.  By the time I
arrived home and parked  I was unable to leave the car for about
twenty minutes.  Wooziness and a feeling of  no certainty
about my equilibrium had taken over.  When this passed, or at
least calmed down, I made the short walk inside.



Then it hit me just how woozy and off kilter I was feeling.  So I
went to sleep.  Wakening a little later in the evening, still
feeling very odd, I assumed it was a radical sugar drop.  This
happens from time to time, Diabatic symptoms can be weird this
way.  But I was too woozed out to take a sugar reading.



Later in the evening I called a friend (and zip code neighbor) to ask
if he might take me to the doctor if the symptoms persisted the next
day.  Fortunately for me, he was going to be around the next
morning and said he or his wife would make sure I got to the doctor if
I needed any help.



This goes in the count the blessings department; one can be thankful for friends like this.



Monday morning came and the wooziness had significantly abated. 
Not gone altogether, but abated.  I got a 2:30 appointment with
the doctor.  By Noon the wooziness was back, but not as bad as the
day before.  The vision in my left eye seemed to have returned to
normal..



I managed to drive the five minutes from here to the doctor.  One thorough examination later the diagnosis is Labyrinthritis
This is an inner ear infection, causes Vertigo in some.  They eye
problem and the wooziness, the doctor tells me, are all part of it.



I explained to the doctor that  it wasn't so much dizziness as a
lack of feeling centered, of my head feeling like it was not screwed in (on?) all
the way.  Sort of bobble-head-like feeling.  Yes, Baseball is
a huge part of my life, but I'd never before felt like a stadium
give-away premium.



He explains to me that this is known as Disequilibrium
And that the worst appears to be over.  Rest it out, he says, give
in to the sleepiness, take it easy for at least two more days. 
This is a viral sort of malady, and it will take a few more days to go
away.  And if it doesn't, get back to his office ASAP.



So I am doing very little work, sadly, as all sorts of projects and
tasks need tending to.  But the wooziness still comes and goes, so
work would suffer, and that's always a bad idea.  Even putting
together this little blog post took much longer than usual, and it
wasn't done in one sitting.



That's it for now from Dizzy Dean, your host here at DeanLand. 
Rest assured that you can spend as much time as you like here in
DeanLand (or over in the place known as faux DeanLand), and not catch any of the symptoms.