Faith Restored

Warning: This entry is solely for the sake of journaling, don't bore yourself with my medical venting!!

Monday morning came, and as planned, I ditched the dreaded crutches. Walking felt wonderful, I was able to get my house back in order... I could play with Porter again. I was able to attend the funeral of a Ward member. My foot was tender, but my soul was uplifted!! That evening we headed to Santaquin for a Robbins FHE. As we were driving, I checked my voicemail and there was a message from a doctor from the Riverwoods Urgent Care where I was seen on Saturday asking that I call. I called in expecting the usual insurance questions. He politely asked how I was feeling and I filled him in on the latest. He began to ask if the pain was located on the outer edge of my foot, closer to the ankle than my toes. I thought about it. "Yes, it is," I replied. He proceeded to ask other questions. Finally I blurted out the nagging "why?". He says the doctor that I saw mis-diagnosed me, and that the x-rays that were taken show a fracture in my foot! Are you kidding me? (I'm supposed to be on crutches right now, until they figure out what to do, but I'm walking on their silly splint. Crutches aren't an option!) Jared has no faith in doctors, and this bad experience along with his bad experiences is making me doubt doctors in general. How do you miss that??

Then, my faith was restored. Today I had an appointment with an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist. For three months I have been suffering from vertigo. (I know, I am falling apart here!) Any time I would lie down, or look up, or move my head in a different direction I would get so dizzy. The dizziness would only last for a short period of time, like 20 seconds, but it was so unsettling. It also caused the worst headaches! I began to research online the causes and read that hearing loss can be a cause. Since I have a hearing loss, I wondered if they were somehow related? So I meet with the doctor and he tests my hearing, and I have a hearing loss. Duh, just filled out 5 minutes worth of paperwork on it. Then he does another evaluation and tells me, "I think I know what you have, and if it is, I can fix it today." So excited! A cure? The doctor's are going to CURE me? Sweet!! So they do the test to find out for sure. They put these goggle looking things on me, which made my vision super blurry but on the opposite side my eyeballs were magnified for the doc. He lies me from a sitting position to lying position with my head to the left. No dizziness. In my head I am thinking "of course it's not going to do it on cue!" Then he does it again with my head turned to the right. Again, nothing! He waits a few more seconds, and the world starts spinning. I'm trying to stay consious which is much harder when you have to keep your eyes open, and I hear him saying "Aww, there they go!" My eyeballs were apparently twiching in a counter clockwise motion. Creepy huh? But cool, he knows what he is doing. He explains all about what it is, and then he does this procedure and fixes the problem and makes it go away. I'd explain it all, but I'd go on forever and I've already done that. I just have to say that my faith has been restored. Doctors are awesome again on my list. THANK YOU doc!