A most miserable day

I woke Friday and was knocked back in bed, my head spinning. I crawled to the bathroom stool and had to sit down to pee, afraid to stand for fear of falling. I did recover slightly and took a shower while Evelyn was still at home. I don’t know how I was able to stand that long because I returned to bed with my head spinning again. When I tried to sit up, I was knocked back again. Thanks be to God that I was always sitting on the edge of the bed when it happened. Whenever I rolled out of bed I had to pause on my knees. Sometimes I vomited and sometimes I just had dry heaves. Regardless, I lost all my medicine and a piece of toast. I could hardly turn my head to roll over in bed where I spent the entire day. When I was called to the bathroom, I had to crawl pushing my vomit tub in front of me. Evelyn went to the hospital but returned home very early. She brought some Meclazine for dizziness. I had never felt the complete helplessness before. I learned later that I must suffer from vertigo. I ate nothing all day until evening when I did get some noodle soup down. Evelyn was able to leave me alone because I was not going anywhere. I did lose 2 doses of medicine during the ordeal.
I woke Saturday much better but not cured. Stacy called and gave us some advice and told us of Peter’s triumph in the first band show at the local football game. He was even able to go down with the cheerleaders to play drums at half time. She was thrilled as were Tom and Peter. He had a great blast at the game and was very tired when he came home. I also called Maury Musselman, a friend who had a similar attack while we were serving Christ together on a Brethren Way of Christ weekend. He said he had similar treatment as I had except for getting a shot for the nausea. He was in bed for 4 complete days before he began to recover. I also talked with Sue, Stacy’s mother-in-law who had been a nurse but had suffered the vertigo as well. Our stories are all similar and the big news from them was that it just goes away in time. There doesn’t seem to be anything much one can do to treat it. She did suggest that I see a doctor to be as certain as possible. I will probably go Monday rather than go to the ER and sit there all day waiting to be seen. Evelyn went to a baby shower at Jo’s house and was gone until after 3:30.