Well it seems we can hardly catch our breath around here! Thanksgiving, Tom's birthday, Christmas, house guests, New Years, new school term and then Tom got REALLY sick and isn't yet recovered. And here we are looking at February already!!
Just to keep folks up to date Tom had an episode of extreme vertigo in November that lasted about 4 hours total. It was totally miserable with constant vomiting anytime he moved any part of his body. Then a couple of weeks ago he had a few dizzy spells and the whole thing started again with a vengeance. We took him to the ER and he ended up spending two days in the hospital. We had an MRI and CT scan done which were all normal so that rules out the scary causes. Meneres is still an option but drs are basically settling on BPPV which is easily treated at home. However, in the last 9 days he has not improved as expected so they are wondering if it may be something else. Apparently there are viruses that can cause two separate episodes like this. crazy.
So he is not in a life threatening situation but he is just miserable. He is doing better now but still cannot drive or shake his head without the room spinning. He can walk when he concentrates and doesn't have to dodge obstacles. He can do some computer work and watch TV but only for limited periods of time and then he needs to rest.
We are SO GRATEFUL that the hospital gave us all this treatment for FREE because they didn't want to hassle with our insurance practices. Don't get me started on the state of health care in the US versus here...Thankfully we are not in a high deductible insurance and though we have to pay for all the follow up stuff his meds are only $15. We'll be okay financially but we were wondering there for a minute!
Hopefully I'll have time to keep things updated.
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