Sunday, March 27, 2011
Dizzy, Nauseous, Sleepy
I was up, out of bed, and downstairs by 750a. I should've felt well rested, but instead I was still surprisingly tired. I started coffee then went to my PC. It was a Sunday so I didn’t plan any calisthenics. Not sure what I was doing when it hit me, but all of the sudden, seemingly out of nowhere, the room started to spin. I had to close my eyes to get it to stop. Ugh!
It happened again while I was stretching my neck side to side and front to back. It seemed that every time I'd touch the back and right side of my neck the dizzy spells would start up yet again. Being dizzy made me feel nauseous and subsequently sleepy. I went directly for the sofa where I buried my face in a pillow and eventually fell back asleep.
I didn’t wake again until Mindy came down to pour some coffee. I woke and shared my dilemma. I had no other symptoms other than being intermittently dizzy. In the back of my mind I knew that I needed to run, but for the time being more sleep was the only thing I cared about.
Once the kids were up Mindy started making bacon and pancakes, just as she had promised the night before. I remained stretched out on the sofa until I could smell the bacon. I got up to pee for like the 5th time and still felt light headed and nauseous. Surprisingly, I was hungry.
The bacon now done, I snatched myself a slice. Mindy pointed out that grease was dripping from its end as I scampered back across the kitchen. Oops! I still didn’t feel good but couldn’t stand the thought of my run looming over my head indefinitely. I grabbed my running clothes and headed upstairs to change. The thought of cold air rushing against my body sounded good. I managed to complete a brief stretch ahead of my run, although doing so made the room spin even more.
For the first quarter mile or so I wasn’t sure if I was gonna be able to pull of the entire run. I still had the spins and my feet felt completely out of synch with my eyes and brain. As time went along, however, I slowly began to feel better. And by the run's end I had no ill feeling whatsoever.
Back at the house, the kids had already finished their breakfast. I started feeling dizzy again as soon as I moved my head slightly back. Mindy alerted me to the fact that there were numerous pancakes waiting for me in the microwave. But I opted out of the pancakes, citing a hankering for fried eggs instead. Knowing I felt bad, Mindy offered to make ‘em. I thanked her but opted to fry them myself. Honestly, I was surprised that I was that hungry given my ill feeling ways.
The eggs and bacon were yummy, but by the time I was finished, I started feeling nauseous and sleepy once again. I hurried through kitchen clean-up then moved to the sofa. At some point Mindy encouraged me to head back to bed. After another 30 minutes or so I took her up on that idea. She warned that she’d be up for a shower soon. I didn’t care. I figured I could sleep right through it.
I turned the TV on just to help me get back to sleep. Worked like a charm. Lost track of time in a hurry. I heard Mindy come in for a shower but wasn’t bothered. I must’ve drifted in and out of sleep 3 or 4 times. And at some point she came to tell me that she was heading to ghetto Kohl’s to see if they might have the fleece I wanted. She also asked if I might be skipping Sunday dinner. At that point I wanted to do nothing but sleep.
The afternoon flew by. Every time I glanced at the clock another hour or more had passed. It was already 330p in what seemed like the blink of an eye. Mindy was home from Kohl’s in there somewhere. She showed me this off brand fleece she picked up. Said she got it for a steal. I wasn’t too impressed. It wasn’t what I asked for or wanted, though I didn’t want to sound or seem ungrateful either. She asked about Sunday dinner again, too. I begged out. I wanted to sleep!
She and the kids left sometime after 4p. They took Frankie too. I’m thinking I got up and took a shower around 430p hoping it might make me feel better. It did for a while. I was incredibly hungry again too. After a shower I watered bedroom plants and then headed downstairs where I took refuge on the sofa. Around 5p I got up and ate some food. This time I ate a donut, some pita chips, cheese, and salsa. I tuned the TV to the Science Channel watching who knows what. My stomach now satisfied, I drifted in and out of sleep again for another couple hours.
Mindy and the kids were home between 730-8p. The entire day absolutely flew by, but that’s what happens when you sleep most of it away. Mindy asked about work. I wasn’t sure, but knew I wouldn’t be going if I continued feeling as bad as I did right then. We continued watching the Science Channel through the evening. For the life of me, though, I can’t much recall the program.
We all headed to bed before 10p. Thinking it closer to 930p.
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