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Two or three Junes ago, I started having a series of attacks of sudden dizziness and nausea, which were eventually diagnosed as benign positional vertigo. I took some medicine and did some exercises, and they went away after a few weeks. On Memorial Day a few weeks ago, I had a 30-second bout of dizziness, and dismissed it. I had a couple more brief bouts over the last two weeks, mostly just after swimming when I pulled myself out of the pool. Today, an hour after A. and msarden left for the airport for a business trip and returning to NY, I collapsed with an attack bad enough I couldn't do anything but lie there, incredibly nauseous and dizzy, for about two hours.* Luckily, Mac was asleep. A. was on the plane; I thought I called ladybird97 to ask her to check on me in an hour, but apparently I didn't dial the phone correctly. Eventually, Mac woke up and I got myself up, and fed him dinner, and ran the dog downstairs, deciding that taking her on a walk while wearing Mac in the Bjorn was not the better part of valor.

I feel a bit better now, in the sense that the nausea is gone and my thoughts are vaguely coherent and I can walk in a straight line down the hallway, I think. But I still feel...unbalanced, and I have a lousy headache. I guess the best thing to compare it to is a really lousy hangover. I'm going to go to bed and hope to be better in the morning. And even if I am all better, this time, I'm not going to ignore the warnings - I'll call my doctor tomorrow.

Why can't I have normal medical issues? Why do I have to get the bizarre stuff?

I just hope I don't have another night of nightmares about breaking things or letting Mac get hurt, like I have the past few days.

*And yes, I'm pretty sure I'm not pregnant; morning sickness was much more fun than this, and felt very different.