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Happy to be home.

Sunday before the Xmas, I started to have extreme balance issues. On Xmas, it got worse, my posting and online presence was in minimum because I was just lying in the bed, using a small 10" Windows tablet to browse the Interwebs, which made typing quite hard and unpleasant. I just hated it.

Went to see my doc on early Friday morning. He did a scan, found something weird behind my right ear, and sent me to hospital. Biopsy shows it's a fat lump, about 7 millimetres diameter, just behind my right ear. Nothing dangerous, just blocking the blood stream and causing pressure to the inner ear.

Remained in hospital until late this afternoon. Got home, medication should dissolve the fat lump. Balance issues still quite severe, but I can cope.

This all relates to my Ménière's disease, which has already caused me losing the hearing in my right ear almost completely, and forced me to go around with a walking stick because the loss of balance can come in a few seconds, requiring me to have extra support when walking.

This is not life threatening, nobody has ever died for Ménière's disease. It's just that when you have absolutely no sense of balance, when you feel all the time that you are on a ship in force 12 storm feeling seasick, when you can't get up from bed without help, when you need to go to bathroom in all four, it makes you scared. Whatever the statistics or your doc tells you.

Happy to be home. There's just this one thing: first time in my life since I was 15, due the medication, it looks I have to remain sober for at least a few weeks. Is life without whisky worth living? I very much doubt it!

Kari

Kari said:

Happy to be home.

Sunday before the Xmas, I started to have extreme balance issues. On Xmas, it got worse, my posting and online presence was in minimum because I was just lying in the bed, using a small 10" Windows tablet to browse the Interwebs, which made typing quite hard and unpleasant. I just hated it.

Went to see my doc on early Friday morning. He did a scan, found something weird behind my right ear, and sent me to hospital. Biopsy shows it's a fat lump, about 7 millimetres diameter, just behind my right ear. Nothing dangerous, just blocking the blood stream and causing pressure to the inner ear.

Remained in hospital until late this afternoon. Got home, medication should dissolve the fat lump. Balance issues still quite severe, but I can cope.

This all relates to my Ménière's disease, which has already caused me losing the hearing in my right ear almost completely, and forced me to go around with a walking stick because the loss of balance can come in a few seconds, requiring me to have extra support when walking.

This is not life threatening, nobody has ever died for Ménière's disease. It's just that when you have absolutely no sense of balance, when you feel all the time that you are on a ship in force 12 storm feeling seasick, when you can't get up from bed without help, when you need to go to bathroom in all four, it makes you scared. Whatever the statistics or your doc tells you.

Happy to be home. There's just this one thing: first time in my life since I was 15, due the medication, it looks I have to remain sober for at least a few weeks. Is life without whisky worth living? I very much doubt it!

Kari

Heal up, I will drink for you fat head

Dude said:

Heal up, I will drink for you fat head

How can I heal without whisky?

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You old softie I hope you feel better soon my friend. Too bad this didn't turn out to be the ultimate cause...

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Kari said:

Happy to be home.

Sunday before the Xmas, I started to have extreme balance issues. On Xmas, it got worse, my posting and online presence was in minimum because I was just lying in the bed, using a small 10" Windows tablet to browse the Interwebs, which made typing quite hard and unpleasant. I just hated it.

Went to see my doc on early Friday morning. He did a scan, found something weird behind my right ear, and sent me to hospital. Biopsy shows it's a fat lump, about 7 millimetres diameter, just behind my right ear. Nothing dangerous, just blocking the blood stream and causing pressure to the inner ear.

Remained in hospital until late this afternoon. Got home, medication should dissolve the fat lump. Balance issues still quite severe, but I can cope.

This all relates to my Ménière's disease, which has already caused me losing the hearing in my right ear almost completely, and forced me to go around with a walking stick because the loss of balance can come in a few seconds, requiring me to have extra support when walking.

This is not life threatening, nobody has ever died for Ménière's disease. It's just that when you have absolutely no sense of balance, when you feel all the time that you are on a ship in force 12 storm feeling seasick, when you can't get up from bed without help, when you need to go to bathroom in all four, it makes you scared. Whatever the statistics or your doc tells you.

Happy to be home. There's just this one thing: first time in my life since I was 15, due the medication, it looks I have to remain sober for at least a few weeks. Is life without whisky worth living? I very much doubt it!

Kari

Sounds awful Kari. I'll have a few instead.

Midnight



A Guy

Morning after, got back from my GF's place at 7AM. We shared a bottle of vine so I had to wait until cops went home. Me at 74 and her at 71 are not what when we were teens (yes, our "connection" hails from late '60s) or party will be still going on.
So, HAPPY NEW YEAR and best wishes for it. Wish for everybody of similar age to remember to write 2020 instead of 2019

Happy New Year Bill & Mike. Nothing new me forgetting the year until at least February.

kado897 said:

Happy New Year Bill & Mike. Nothing new me forgetting the year until at least February.

Double whammy! It's a leap year!