Vicious Vertigo

Today I am posting on something that is by all means....not really 'Hallowe'en' related. The closest link I could come up with is 'Alfred Hitchcock' because he has created some really great spooky thrillers. Not a great segue I realize...but a segue none the less. So one of his all time greats was called "Vertigo"! Maybe some of you have seen it, I actually have not had the pleasure of viewing this yet, although I've heard that it's one of the great cult classics. But I have had the extreme displeasure of having suffered from real life vertigo 3 times. The third time being today. There is nothing quite as horrifying as turning over in your bed while sleeping, only to awaken to the room spinning violently around you which instantly triggers you to begin vomiting. And that is how it happens...at least for me.

The first time it happened, I had never heard of the term 'Vertigo', other than the movie, and did not know that it was this horrible, wretched symptomatic condition that some of us are going to be cursed with in life. In fact, the first time I got it....I literally thought I might be dying of a brain tumor or something. And unfortunately for me, once the sickness part starts, there is no stopping it. So today, this same scenario was repeated much to my despair, and off to the Doctors I was taken. I say 'taken', because you cannot drive yourself when the world around you is spinning and you are having non-stop dry heaves.

In my particular case, my bouts of vertigo have been triggered from fluid in my ears and inner ear infections....today being no different. So now it is antibiotic/steroid time for me. Also, my particular type is called "objective vertigo" due to the perception of objects around me moving. And unfortunately, it also happens when I am laying back, thereby forcing me to sit straight up even though I am exhausted and want nothing more than to lay down and curl up. So I am writing this at the witching hour because frankly, I am not at all looking forward to tempting this evil to reappear by laying down in my bed. I would rent the movie, but I don't know that I could stomach it right now..so I'd better not. On a brighter note, I did discover these dizzying lil' dandies while researching my vertigo on line. It's 'Vertigo the Candy'! However, knowing what I do about that term now....you couldn't pay me $100 to eat something with the name vertigo....ha! But I've read that they are good, so some of you may want to give them a try. Sorry to dedicate a post to this wretchedly evil condition...but at least the colors on the posters are 'Hallowe'eny'!