Monday 9 November 2009

Wellness

I woke up feeling dizzy this morning. The feeling was weird, as if I had been drinking all night. I tried walking to the kitchen and bumped against the wall. It was frightening and bewildering. I felt unsteady, as if I was floating in air, and my stomach felt strangely empty.

I couldn't walk Rusty, how to drive him to the vet in the morning? I woke YK up and told him I was too dizzy to send him to school. Then I made my way back to the room.

As I laid in bed, I thought of my poor mum who has been suffering from dizziness for decades. Now I know what it must be like for her to be giddy all day long. No wonder she looks and feels unwell all the time. In the span of two hours, I moaned about it to anyone who cared to listen. But mum doesn't milk enough sympathy out of us because we're not the ones suffering.

I woke up an hour later, head heavy and feeling a little queasy. Maybe it had something to do with my tummy. I felt better after breakfast. It was when I could walk steadily again that I realised how we take little things in life for granted.

I didn't feel all that well today but I'm beginning to think that I'm made to go through these tests so that I can understand what my mother is going through. For the last two years, she had been complaining about an annoying sensation she describes as 'ants crawling under her facial skin' . Her doctor simply dismissed it as something not life threatening, so just live with it.

For some strange reason, I experienced that sensation one night. It was like an army of ants crawling under my cheek. I pinched and clawed my face like how mum would do it but it was futile. It suddenly stopped and all was well again.

Then it returned two nights later. I was lying in bed when the area around the nostril suddenly started to hurt. This time, it was like ants biting and tugging under my skin. I clutched my nose and started tearing. I reached for a painkiller immediately. It was horrible and I felt sorry that mum has to go through this pain on a regular basis.

Thank goodness those were the only attacks I've had. It's so mysterious that until now, I have no idea what brought them on. Whatever it is, I don't ever want to go through with it again. Now I know why mum is so determined to be completely well again, even if it means having a dozen needles stuck in her. Yes, I'm bringing her for accupunture again tomorrow.

6 comments:

Fresh Fry aka 福星 said...

*hugs* =)

Nick Phillips (15/03/1967 - 04/11/2022) said...

Oh my, I hope it's nothing serious. Get some rest, maybe it's all that marketing of your new product that's taking a toll on you.

Petunia Lee said...

Yup! Rest well!

Anonymous said...

Hey wonder if you're ok now.

mother hen

auntielucia said...

I think yr dizziness might be a spot of what's called "positional vertigo". U might have got up too suddenly and dislodged some nano-sized stuff in an ear and that cascaded to affect your balance.

Ants under the skin: probably some minor nerve twitches.

Pse don't reach out for painkillers and similar medication at the first sign tt the body isn't feeling quite right. Give the body a chance to adjust and reach equilibrium again.

Blur Ting said...

Hey guys, thanks. I'm well now.

Auntie Lucia - Thanks for the analysis. I don't usually take painkiller but the pain that night was bad, and didn't dissipate even after my bed time. That Panadol helped put me to sleep.

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