Back in bed for the day...

Heh...the title makes me laugh.  Such a middle schooler at heart.

Alas for me, back in bed is not where I want to be.  I woke up after sleeping another 11-hours last night to pain and fullness in my good ear.  The mysterious pain.  I am definitely off-balance and walking slowly and lightly holding on to things here and there to assure myself I'm upright and okay.  I'm dizzy even when I'm lying down.  Definitely overdid it for Christmas.  Trying to remind myself, it could be worse.  I've been through some of the worst this disease has to offer.  While what I am currently experiencing is frustrating, at least it is not the hell that is a full-blown vertigo attack.  Also, I am always mindful that I could be dealing with a much worse condition.  Meniere's is debilitating but at least it isn't terminal.  It may temporarily disable me, but it won't paralyze me.

I am sad though because I am here at home alone missing out on time with my kids again.  We finally have a sunny day and they are off to try out their new scooters outside for the first time and I'm missing it.  I can't be upright that long and I'll have the kids all week this week since school is out.  I have to take it easy while I can.  I'm also going to miss out on lunch with some old friends I haven't seen in years. 

I wish I knew what this ear pain was.  I'm thinking referred pain from a possible migraine.  I have met a friend online who has the same symptoms and her ear pain is from her migraines and she has MAV.  The paranoid side of me is still worried that I am going bilateral.  The fullness today is what worries me most about that.  The fullness coinciding with an increase in dizziness realllly makes me paranoid.  However, I should not worry about things I cannot control.  Easier said than done.  My ENT won't do another hearing test until I have healed more from my surgery.  I am a little anxious to get that done because it may give me some clue what my right ear may be doing.  I need to get in touch with his office next week and set up our next appointment.  Once again, I wait and see...

To better days ahead!!!