My Struggles

This is my new blog that I changed to My Life and Meniere's as the blog heading.

So many things happened since the last blog I wrote. My brother, Kenny, did moved in with us last year in February and we had good relationship and things were out of hands and I am unable to help him out all the choices he made. So sadly, he has to moved out last month of January this year. He is living back with his mom for awhile and planning on moving back here in Sparta to live his own place eventually. I love him and I do missed him so much.

We have a new addition of family pet of the basset hound, Flash. We had him since he was 8 weeks old and he is now 9 months old. His birthday is April 20, 2009. He is full of energy puppy and he can be stubborn when he not listening. Overall, he such a cutie puppy. Green Bay is about to turn 2 years old on February 24th. He is such awesome dog. Packers is around 7 or 8 years old, which we don't know his actual age since we adopted him in August 2007. All the dogs are wonderful and care for.

Well as for me, I have some health issues over the past year and I have just been diagnosed Meniere's Disease, which is the inner ear disorder. I started out having upper respiratory infection in March 2009 and then ear infection on my right ear on Easter. Then all the sudden I had total hearing loss on my right ear, ongoing vertigo attacks, and loss of balancing. I was on steroids for awhile and it helps but it came back worse with the attacks.

So I lost my job position at FSH since I was unable to work as a baker. I had to leave the system since I don't know when I can go back to the working world.

I am still struggling with the attacks day by day. It hard to plan my day since I don't know when the attacks will occur. Some days I am good but can sense off balance and some days are worse that I had to lay down to have my attacks go pass. I have hard time walking in the total darkness and I used walker in case I needed.  I get brain fog most the time and have hard time to focus and remember what I am suppose to do.

I just started a new treatment of gentamyclin injection in my inner ear beginning this month. I sense having some problems but my dr said it the treatment is working and he does expect I have some issues that the brain is trying to get used to my surrounding. Like bouncy vision, unsteadiness balancing. I may or may not need another round of treatments and we just wait and see for my next dr visit. I just had another attacks this week and it passed for few hours later. It really makes me so tired and had to sleep after the attacks.

I also have struggle with having major depression and PTSD with anxiety everyday. It really hard on me having all these issues. My husband is trying to be supportive and he doesn't understand what I am going thru with depression and how my body affect by it.

So I am hoping to keep up my blogs of how my day goes.