tinker1bell
<font color=teal>I'll never grow old<br><font colo
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Hi everyone,,,,,Let me just say John's Hopkins is unbelievable. They get you in and out fast. If changes are made with your appointments, they make it happen.
I had four appointments scheduled,,,Vestibular, hearing test, ENG test and final results. Vestibular--designed to see where the exact dizziness lies. Lots of exercises while wearing goggles to track my eyes and see hopefully the line of treatment. Hearing test,,,last time I had one I was told that for someone my age, my hearing is perfect. This time, the Dr said I had the hearing of a two year old!!!
Now the next test was supposed to be the ENG. That is where they put electrodes on your forehead and you wear goggles and they have you sit up, and lie down while they use a tube to force warm and cold air or water in your ear. It is designed to make you dizzy so they can see which canal in your ear the problem lies. Since the first Dr thought I did so well in the vestibular test, he didn't want me to get any more dizzier so they cancelled the ENG test.
My last appointment was moved up so I only had to wait fifteen minutes to see the Dr and we talked about my tests and how they have discovered that people who have a lot of migraines sometimes then start having problems with vertigo. It was interesting and very informative.
I will go back in three months to see how I am doing and they will do another test to check on my progress.
For now it is called Benign Positional Vertigo which is what I had heard before but with the added information about migraines, it really comes together. He feels I should be better in a few weeks. All I can do for now is keep doing the one exercise he gave me and wait for August.
I had four appointments scheduled,,,Vestibular, hearing test, ENG test and final results. Vestibular--designed to see where the exact dizziness lies. Lots of exercises while wearing goggles to track my eyes and see hopefully the line of treatment. Hearing test,,,last time I had one I was told that for someone my age, my hearing is perfect. This time, the Dr said I had the hearing of a two year old!!!
Now the next test was supposed to be the ENG. That is where they put electrodes on your forehead and you wear goggles and they have you sit up, and lie down while they use a tube to force warm and cold air or water in your ear. It is designed to make you dizzy so they can see which canal in your ear the problem lies. Since the first Dr thought I did so well in the vestibular test, he didn't want me to get any more dizzier so they cancelled the ENG test.
My last appointment was moved up so I only had to wait fifteen minutes to see the Dr and we talked about my tests and how they have discovered that people who have a lot of migraines sometimes then start having problems with vertigo. It was interesting and very informative.
I will go back in three months to see how I am doing and they will do another test to check on my progress.
For now it is called Benign Positional Vertigo which is what I had heard before but with the added information about migraines, it really comes together. He feels I should be better in a few weeks. All I can do for now is keep doing the one exercise he gave me and wait for August.
She was at the district office building right next to the high school taking the AP Calculus exam. One of the classes that she is marked "absent unexcused" in is her AP Calculus course. I'm thinking her teacher could have figured out where she was. It must be that she wasn't put on some list or that they had a glitch and called all the AP Calculus students' parents. I guess I'll call in the morning and let them know where she was today and make sure they have her down for the other 5 exams.
I tried to talk with the HR person on Monday, but she was busy. I ended up sending an email Monday night and I've been told that they are working on a solution. They were supposed to get back to me with this "solution" today. The reality is that my benefit package more than likely is worth $5000/yr less than what I anticipated as we now have a $5000 out of pocket maximum. 
