We are on the verge of what has become the widely-anticipated grand finale of 'What the Hell is Wrong with Amo'.
We have ruled out a brain tumor, aneurysm and now earwigs.
Which is good news.
In other better-than-good-news-and-probably-close-to-FREAKING-AWESOME-NEWS, the ear doctor figured out my dizziness finally!
Normally, I'd cut to the chase and slam down the diagnosis for all of you...but it's my blog and I can play with the climax if I want.
(heh.)
So, the testing required no caffeine or alcohol for 48 hours prior. Okay, (believe it or not) I can handle the 'no alcohol'...for two days, but the NO COFFEE...oh heeeeelllll-to-the-no. It was Ugly. (With a capital U.)
The young, tall, doctor with short, black hair that looked like someone you'd really love to party with and was probably wearing a lab coat to hide the tattoos, was really freaking awesome. She didn't even tell me she was the DOCTOR until we had hit it off and were laughing about the earwig theory. (It sooo could have been earwigs, shut-up.)
She did hours worth of tests, one of which involved cold air blown in your ear and let me tell you, THAT, is not as pleasurable as one might imagine. But, apparently you can recreate the room spinning that is experienced by that test by dripping cold water in someone's ear who's laying down. (Dorkfish, you better sleep with ear plugs, that's all I'm saying.)
All of her medieval torture devices tests resulted in three findings; first, one of my pupils is more constricted than the other which has absolutely nothing to do with the dizziness, but makes me fun at parties in low light. Two, the ocean sound I'm hearing in my left ear has nothing to do with the dizziness but is like have a private party in your head involving coconut rum and cabana boys. Three, my right ear is apparently asleep at the wheel and is 25% slower at recognizing motion than my left and thus, the dizziness.
But the best part of the diagnosis, was explaining that all to my grandmother...
"Amo, it CAN'T be the hairs in your ears causing all the trouble. Your grandfather cuts his all the time and it's not affecting his balance."
*****
In other news, I'm going to open a booth at the state fair doing the water trick. Can you picture the rednecks lined up, daring each other to do it?
Then again, the puke bucket full of beer and corndogs might be a deterrent.
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5 comments:
So glad you're getting it figured out! Now, what do they do to make it better?
Am I the only one who had to Google earwigs? And is now wishing they hadn't? Sooo glad it wasn't that. EEEKKK!
I'm with dancing lemur...what do they do to help your right ear catch up? And do they know why it started up so suddenly?
I have to admit I thought about cutting the hair in my ears until i read this. Maybe I should just cultivate it for the eventual comb over.
Your grandmother is cute.
Glad you're getting it figured out.. eeeeew cold water in the ears.. GAH
and ummm I had no clue that an ear could be slower.. hjmmmmmmm
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