Author Archives: Catherine

I think the first ominous signs were on our way back from Memorial Day visit to Connecticut… I'll have to pause this post here and change computers. This one's monitor is flickering and fading to black. Why? It's breaking!   … Continue reading →

I do not want to jinx it, but the trend lines are good.  After more than two weeks of hardcore, no holds barred vacationing, I'm back home and doing pretty well. I went to vestibular therapy this morning after nearly … Continue reading →

The following might be a little garbled. This is sort of like drunk dialing, except the only thing I'm drunk on is exhaustion. I spent half the day at the Cleveland Clinic today– for once a good experience.  The geneticist … Continue reading →

This is it folks: the one-year anniversary of my new life as a part of the chronically dizzy community. A year ago at this moment, I was undergoing my first and only true vertigo attack. Perhaps by 2:00 p.m. (the … Continue reading →

Is your brain a hottie or a nottie? Unlike most people, I have the answer to this vexing question.  I returned triumphantly this week to vestibular therapy. I'm in a whole different place now than I was when I left … Continue reading →

I spent half the day at the Cleveland Clinic yesterday, getting poked and prodded and twisted and pulled. This is all part of my on-going research as to what the hell has happened to me in the last year and … Continue reading →

Isaac's still fleshing out the details, but looks like Santa will have some serious work to do this year. Isaac intends to ask him for the powers of a given super hero, to be determined. I pointed out that this … Continue reading →

I started the double Cymbalta on Saturday (from 20 to 40). I expected that it would make me groggy at first, and indeed I spent all day Saturday flat out in bed. I slept, and hazily watched things on the … Continue reading →

Isaac has become a real reader lately. Just the other day he called up his friend Jens, and worked on his important DNA research on the phone, a continuation of their schoolwork. He read the page (which I found for … Continue reading →

Here in opposite world I'm barred from exercising and force-fed salt. It's pretty weird. I was driving along the other day and they had this radio program about how to get salt out of your diet. People were going to … Continue reading →