Where DOES he get those marvelous toys?
OK. So today I am irritable and tired; Cranky and lackluster. But before I get into what’s irritating me let me tell you about the ‘Dizzy’ doctor.
As most of you can tell (from the way I am on here or even knowing me personally), I don’t suffer fools gladly. I don’t like being condescended to – I have issues with people who think they are better due to their education, breeding or money….or, when it comes to medicine, because they have their name embroidered on their coats…
Yesterday my world was turned upside down…literally. I went to see the ‘dizzy’ doctor here at work. He specializes in dealing with Vertigo.
I went for my appointment. Usually a nurse walks you to the examining room – he came to the lobby himself to get me. I had been filling out a questionnaire for the visit but he got me before I could finish.
We sat down to talk and he began to ask me questions – I was too vague for him and he got kind of snippy with me. I was not feeling myself and I got snippy back. He finally said to me “Look, I am not your typical doctor, I am an engineer first, a doctor second. In order to ‘fix’ your problem you need to tell me EXACTLY what is going on so that I can fix your problem.” He went on to then ask me about my Yoga teaching, made a comment about the OM symbol I wear around my neck and told me he was not your typical ‘white coat/western medicine kind of guy (being of Indian descent and all) and this all put me at ease with him – soon we were *really* talking to each other.
He gave me a neurological exam and made comments about some balance issues but I reminded him I was still feeling ‘off center’. He then told me I had BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) and that basically what happens is the ‘crystals’ in our ears get knocked loose somehow (via trauma, viruses etc.) and wreak havoc with our sense of balance – entirely curable – but also that I would be prone to episodes of this throughout my life and I really was not ‘so young’ to have this, (he has a patient that is 8 YEARS OLD! (poor kid)) – also he was going to give me a way to help myself when this occurs again. Yipee!
Finally he took me into a room where he put headgear on me - very reminiscent of Jean Luc Picard from the ‘Cyborg’ episodes of Star Trek , Next Generation. He explained that he was going to make me dizzy and I had to listen to everything he said and do everything he told me to do. In this short amount of time I had to completely trust this guy...not something I was prepared for but somehow he made it easy. We had to hold on to each other (I had to actually cling to him) and he began to spin me around to make me dizzy. He kept chastising me to ‘open your eyes!, Colleen’ – because when you get dizzy all you want to do is close your eyes. As he made me dizzy and forced me to look at the little pinpoint of light inside the ‘helmet’ he kept saying – ‘We can fix this, (he’d chuckle) – We have the technology’ he then stopped everything, made some calculations and spun me around in a different way. Then he told me we were finished and said: "I think we fixed you” –he then proceeded trying to make me dizzy again but did not....
AMAZING
However, now, for the next 48 hours, I have to remain upright. No sleeping flat, sleep upright. So last night I did and well - I basically did not sleep. Tonight will be the same.
So now I am cranky and irritable and wanting to take naps and yell at people for bothering me at work (even though it’s my job) – this morning as I tried being awake enough to drive to work I was ranting at the idiots on the highway. As I got in the elevator to go up to the 11th flooor I wanted to yell at the 250 pound woman who got off only 1 floor up why she didn’t just take the stairs – maybe THEN she’d lose weight...
*sigh* mean, very mean, Colette...
If this goes away I will be thrilled and much less cranky (LOL) well hope DOES spring eternal, eh?
As most of you can tell (from the way I am on here or even knowing me personally), I don’t suffer fools gladly. I don’t like being condescended to – I have issues with people who think they are better due to their education, breeding or money….or, when it comes to medicine, because they have their name embroidered on their coats…
Yesterday my world was turned upside down…literally. I went to see the ‘dizzy’ doctor here at work. He specializes in dealing with Vertigo.
I went for my appointment. Usually a nurse walks you to the examining room – he came to the lobby himself to get me. I had been filling out a questionnaire for the visit but he got me before I could finish.
We sat down to talk and he began to ask me questions – I was too vague for him and he got kind of snippy with me. I was not feeling myself and I got snippy back. He finally said to me “Look, I am not your typical doctor, I am an engineer first, a doctor second. In order to ‘fix’ your problem you need to tell me EXACTLY what is going on so that I can fix your problem.” He went on to then ask me about my Yoga teaching, made a comment about the OM symbol I wear around my neck and told me he was not your typical ‘white coat/western medicine kind of guy (being of Indian descent and all) and this all put me at ease with him – soon we were *really* talking to each other.
He gave me a neurological exam and made comments about some balance issues but I reminded him I was still feeling ‘off center’. He then told me I had BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) and that basically what happens is the ‘crystals’ in our ears get knocked loose somehow (via trauma, viruses etc.) and wreak havoc with our sense of balance – entirely curable – but also that I would be prone to episodes of this throughout my life and I really was not ‘so young’ to have this, (he has a patient that is 8 YEARS OLD! (poor kid)) – also he was going to give me a way to help myself when this occurs again. Yipee!
Finally he took me into a room where he put headgear on me - very reminiscent of Jean Luc Picard from the ‘Cyborg’ episodes of Star Trek , Next Generation. He explained that he was going to make me dizzy and I had to listen to everything he said and do everything he told me to do. In this short amount of time I had to completely trust this guy...not something I was prepared for but somehow he made it easy. We had to hold on to each other (I had to actually cling to him) and he began to spin me around to make me dizzy. He kept chastising me to ‘open your eyes!, Colleen’ – because when you get dizzy all you want to do is close your eyes. As he made me dizzy and forced me to look at the little pinpoint of light inside the ‘helmet’ he kept saying – ‘We can fix this, (he’d chuckle) – We have the technology’ he then stopped everything, made some calculations and spun me around in a different way. Then he told me we were finished and said: "I think we fixed you” –he then proceeded trying to make me dizzy again but did not....
AMAZING
However, now, for the next 48 hours, I have to remain upright. No sleeping flat, sleep upright. So last night I did and well - I basically did not sleep. Tonight will be the same.
So now I am cranky and irritable and wanting to take naps and yell at people for bothering me at work (even though it’s my job) – this morning as I tried being awake enough to drive to work I was ranting at the idiots on the highway. As I got in the elevator to go up to the 11th flooor I wanted to yell at the 250 pound woman who got off only 1 floor up why she didn’t just take the stairs – maybe THEN she’d lose weight...
*sigh* mean, very mean, Colette...
If this goes away I will be thrilled and much less cranky (LOL) well hope DOES spring eternal, eh?
2 Comments:
TWO weeks from tonight! We have a standing DATE!
Nice blog! I really enjoyed this post--I'm fascinated by the doctor's ability to make you "undizzy". I don't trust western medicine much either. Glad you had a good experience :)
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