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Oct. 8th, 2008 08:05 amSo much for my plans for the morning. It's Wednesday. I'd intended to go downtown to the post office and then to the farmers' market, but I'm not sure it's safe at this point.
Basically, last night while Scott and I were watching a DVD, I got hit by a wave of not quite dizziness. It's the sort of thing that means that I don't quite feel like I'm sitting upright, even when I am, and that I sometimes feel like I'm spinning when I lie down or close my eyes. I sometimes get it when I'm very tired and already in bed, and it can be kind of neat then. It's not so neat when I'm sitting in the living room and wondering if it's safe to stand up.
As it happens, I can stand and walk. I seem to do better when I'm walking than when I'm sitting. I'm not sure about how standing fits in because most of the standing in one place I've done has been this morning when it might have been primarily the fact that I wasn't fully awake yet. My balance tends to suck when I'm stumbling around, trying to wake up. Most of the bruises I get are from banging against doorknobs and such when walking from bedroom to bathroom at five in the morning.
I'm pretty sure I'll be fine walking Cordelia the block and a half to school. I'm just not enthusiastic about crossing streets without a crossing guard or about being a half an hour away from home and dependent on the buses when I feel like this. I probably would be fine. I'd do it if I really needed to. I just don't *need* to. The book can go out tomorrow or Friday. It's later than when I said I'd mail it, but I think the recipient can wait. Missing the farmers' market is harder because I can't go to the one on Saturday and because Scott also may not be able to (if he's working), but there's nothing I would get there that we'll really feel the lack of.
Right now, I'm suspecting a sinus/ear infection of some sort. I'll give it some time to get better on its own. I might be able to go to the doctor tomorrow. If I can't go then, it'll have to wait until Monday.
Now I have to decide whether or not I need to cancel this afternoon's playdate. The other family has a policy of not letting their kids stay at other family's houses without a parent present, so it's not just Cordelia's friend but also her mother and younger brother. I was unenthusiastic about the extra guests (but unwilling to accept the offered alternative of going to their place because it leaves us dependent on them for transportation in both directions). I'm not sure I'd have issued the invitation if I'd realized that it came with extras. I don't dislike the other mother, but she's also not somebody I consider a friend.
ETA: Standing up is definitely better than sitting. Weird. Walking is better than standing, though. Not that I'm going to try to do either all day. My legs would give out after twenty minutes.
ETA 2: Walking to the school and back (about ten minutes on my feet) has shown that walking doesn't *stay* better than sitting, and bending over to get clothes for Cordelia has put bending at the bottom of the list of things I can safely do right now (there's a lot of stuff not on the list at all). I didn't fall or even get hugely dizzy. I just felt quite thoroughly wrong.
Basically, last night while Scott and I were watching a DVD, I got hit by a wave of not quite dizziness. It's the sort of thing that means that I don't quite feel like I'm sitting upright, even when I am, and that I sometimes feel like I'm spinning when I lie down or close my eyes. I sometimes get it when I'm very tired and already in bed, and it can be kind of neat then. It's not so neat when I'm sitting in the living room and wondering if it's safe to stand up.
As it happens, I can stand and walk. I seem to do better when I'm walking than when I'm sitting. I'm not sure about how standing fits in because most of the standing in one place I've done has been this morning when it might have been primarily the fact that I wasn't fully awake yet. My balance tends to suck when I'm stumbling around, trying to wake up. Most of the bruises I get are from banging against doorknobs and such when walking from bedroom to bathroom at five in the morning.
I'm pretty sure I'll be fine walking Cordelia the block and a half to school. I'm just not enthusiastic about crossing streets without a crossing guard or about being a half an hour away from home and dependent on the buses when I feel like this. I probably would be fine. I'd do it if I really needed to. I just don't *need* to. The book can go out tomorrow or Friday. It's later than when I said I'd mail it, but I think the recipient can wait. Missing the farmers' market is harder because I can't go to the one on Saturday and because Scott also may not be able to (if he's working), but there's nothing I would get there that we'll really feel the lack of.
Right now, I'm suspecting a sinus/ear infection of some sort. I'll give it some time to get better on its own. I might be able to go to the doctor tomorrow. If I can't go then, it'll have to wait until Monday.
Now I have to decide whether or not I need to cancel this afternoon's playdate. The other family has a policy of not letting their kids stay at other family's houses without a parent present, so it's not just Cordelia's friend but also her mother and younger brother. I was unenthusiastic about the extra guests (but unwilling to accept the offered alternative of going to their place because it leaves us dependent on them for transportation in both directions). I'm not sure I'd have issued the invitation if I'd realized that it came with extras. I don't dislike the other mother, but she's also not somebody I consider a friend.
ETA: Standing up is definitely better than sitting. Weird. Walking is better than standing, though. Not that I'm going to try to do either all day. My legs would give out after twenty minutes.
ETA 2: Walking to the school and back (about ten minutes on my feet) has shown that walking doesn't *stay* better than sitting, and bending over to get clothes for Cordelia has put bending at the bottom of the list of things I can safely do right now (there's a lot of stuff not on the list at all). I didn't fall or even get hugely dizzy. I just felt quite thoroughly wrong.
