Well I was trying to find a good picture of me to post, found one, but again it's turned sideways. I will figure this out. A challenge. I like it. But it will have to wait until after I come back from vacation.
A little about me. I'm a wife, mother and grandmother. I used to be a Court Reporter in a Juvenile Court System until my disability waylaid me. I then spent the next three years trying to figure out what I could do or even wanted to do with my life.
My disability is Meniere's Disease, which is a form of vertigo. Most sufferers of Meniere's usually have bouts of vertigo or dizziness. In my case the dizzy turned out to be all day long, every day. Some days would be better than others. I have had this disease since 2006 and have learned to cope with it. Dizziness is just one aspect of the disease. Brain Fog, hearing loss, ringing in the ears, and fullness in one or both ears just to mention a few of the many symptoms. Doctors are not sure how this disease occurs and have many theories among which is trauma to the head or ears. In my case I think it is genetics. I'm almost positive my grandmother had this disease, as does my mother and now even two of my daughters.
Here is the Mayo Clinic's definition of Meniere's Disease:
"Meniere's disease is a disorder of the inner ear that causes episodes in which you feel as if you're spinning (vertigo), and you have fluctuating hearing loss with a progressive, ultimately permanent loss of hearing, ringing in the ear (tinnitus), and sometimes a feeling of fullness or pressure in your ear. In most cases, Meniere's disease affects only one ear."
There are lots of studies out there with theories, suggestions, what not to do or what to do. I even read where a person with Meniere's Disease has a lesser quality of life than even that of a patient who is dying of cancer. At times I totally agree with that statement. When it's bad, it's really bad. And when things are good I generally just get a couple new bruises from bumping into things.
Weather change is a really big factor in my Meniere's. A 10 degree change is enough to put me in bed for days. And the older I get I find that while I could cover up my walking like a drunken sailor from my co-workers it's all I can do to just stand somedays without falling backwards. But enough about that.
Since being off work I discovered quickly about the only type of things I could do were things sitting down. I couldn't work on the computer because of my double vision. So I decided to teach myself how to knit and crochet. I ended up learning a 10 stitch blanket and I learned to make a granny square and granny ripple. I have four grandsons and made each of them a blanket in the space of about a year. So the end result of that was tendonitis in both arms, and am currently going through occupational therapy. My right arm is doing much better. But my left arm I'm afraid will never get better. The pain in it has diminished somewhat but not very much. For being right handed I'm surprised at how much my left arm really hurts.
Since the diagnosis of tendonitis I was sidelined. So one of my daughter's got me into reviewing. I usually just hunt around on web sites for things I'll use or someone I know can use and get products at a discount. I purchase the items on Amazon and then leave my review. It didn't cost a whole lot, it was things I could use, and it was fun. But having just been at it for maybe a month Amazon has decided to change their reviewing policies and everyone is running around like a chicken with their head cut off.
You see Amazon previously required certain verbage in their reviews and now they've said no more. I think they think we were manipulating the system or products somehow. So all the suggestions were to create a blog and do our reviews on our blogs. So here we are. I'm not sure what the future holds in the world of reviewing, if it will continue or if it will stop.
I guess I will find cross that bridge when I come to it.
More about me. Like I said earlier I'm a wife. In January my husband and I will celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. We had three daughters who are all grown now with families of their own, and they proceeded to give me four grandsons. No granddaughters, (yet).
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