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AN Community => AN Community => Topic started by: tony on July 28, 2006, 12:30:33 am
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Been a bit too serious of late- time to lighten up a bit
Thought I would relate how the new single balance nerve
is shaping up - others should chime in with their own experiances.
So it was a B-B-Q - new balance, no problem
The garden was on a 35 deg slope - no problem
Then it got dark - (amazingly) no problem
Then I sank 2-3 bottles of Sauvingon
At which point the new balance said
"you have got to be Zarking kidding"
and took the evening off.
I lost traction control, ABS and Dynamic stability
more or less at the same time
"Bambi on Ice" comes to mind.
I didnt connect with the ground
(New balance must have taken "Gravity" to a disco earlier
when it left)
I am told I am at a difficult age.....
Best regards
Tony
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I bought a mini tramp to gain some balance skills. I put the darn thing together, and it was a just challenge to snap it the joints in place with two feet. The sequencing of the parts and reading of the directions nearly made me nuts.ÂÂ
The 5 year old twins came to see my new toy. One chubby boy hops on and springs up and down and then tustles with the other twin to defend his territory on the 28" "stage". The second boy hops on and jumps up and down, lifting his knees and feet up to his bottom and slamming his feet down like a trampoline expert. Then they say, "You go, Bop" (that's my knickname). Boppie climbs on and tries one little bounce...tipped right forward...couldn't catch myself. A new thing to learn. Bouncing! ;D
Unpdate [Gently bouncing and tipping to music on the mini tramp, that is really fixing me! This week I volunteered to help my daughter-in-law wallpaper the bathroom. I had a small business doing this in the 80's. But this time I get to do the cut and paste and SHE gets to do the placements. Good idea, huh?
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Gardening is a passion. Hubby built a raised bed garden thinking it would make raising tomatoes easier. Cages all around to keep the vines straight and critters out. I reached in to grab a big red and what do you know? I ended up stuck between four cages and couldn't get up! My two Pugs ran to my rescue--------licking my face and leg. It took hubby ten minutes to figure out where I was! PT said, "Well don't garden anymore." Hubby said, "I will build it higher." I hope all have a wonderful day.
Brenda ::)
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OMG! Brenda! I'm a pug parent as well!!!!!
My funny balance issue... walking Beanie (my pug) at night, leaning over to scoop her "business".... I do a great impression of a weeble. I've learned to bend a certain way at the knees, then bending at my hips to scoop the poo... quite a funny sight!
Phyl
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I hated that trampoline at therapy!! Boppie why on earth would you want to live with one? ;D It did help though ;)
Everyone asks me what would happen if i'd indulge if it would make my balance seem normal? LOL I think a few of my friends think well heck if you feel like you're drunk you might as well be drunk LOL
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When your AN friend Denise talks you into walking heel - toe. I did it just fine with a two story building to hang on to. Take the building away and...........I don't want to know. I better not ever get pulled over and asked to do THAT on the side of the freeway!! "may I please hang on to your squad car officer?"
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Phyl,
Too cool. These are my second and fourth Pugs. Sara's Sunshine Lady is nine (she loves to dress-up). She is a fawn Ming Toy and is quite chubby but small. Sophie LaRoo is a Black standard and is three and half months old, full of energy and fun. I have a stroller for Sara, it stabilizes me, and Sophie does a pretty good job of getting tangled with the leash. It is too hot here to walk them now, but they have a pet door and big fenced yard they use. Hubby is on pick up duty. He doesn't want the same thing that happened with the tomotoes to happen with the poop! Lucky me!! They are very spoiled. They even have an ice dispenser that they nudge and get ice in their bowl. Don't ask, my hubby hooked it up! :o
Brenda
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What wonderful people there are in this group. So good to share and encourage. Thanks for being there. P.S. I have six Bostons
Dee
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My story...I took my 12 year old granddaughter to an amusement park. Thinking to myself that this isn't really a very bright idea on my part. We went on some pretty benign rides (ie ferris wheel, bumper cars, etc.), obviously this didn't last to long with a 12 year old and her "I think I'm 17 grandfather". We went on some of the killer rides, and to my total amazement, as I watched everyone stagger off rides like the Tilt-a-whirl, and Roller Coaster, I was the only one that didn't get dizzy. Apparently it takes two balance nerves to mess up your mind when on Amusement Park rides!!! And my granddaughter thinks her granddad is awesome, and I think, for once, I agree with her ;D
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My favorite way to lose my balance is to hear the phone ring, not find it on its cradle, frantically look around for it cuz I can't tell by hearin' it where the heck it is, and then step on the dogs slimy chew-bone running for it and take a full body-slam onto the hardwood floor. Yep, I have done this three times--the first time I did not manage to put my arms out to break my fall which is an automatic response to a sudden gravitational shift (like pulling your hand back from a hot stove) and WHAP right on the face. The second time was a little better, and by the third time I landed just right and thought "Damn! I'm getting LOTS better at this!"
Captain Deb 8)
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Capt.:
Do you get phone calls that are that important?! Let the machine pick it up and call them back when you find the phone girl!
Kathleen
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Geez, I wish Sauvignon was the culprit. My balance needs only a little walk in the bright sun, along the slim trees shading my garden. The effect is similar to walking besides bars, the sun flickers and my eyes do not react fast enough to shrink with the light and dilate in the shade. I find myself in no time resting on the rockery with bruised elbows and wrists, but it has cut my fall by half . I am glad for that.
Also, it is nice to blame something else that my dead ear.
Hello Tony.
antoinette
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Why Antionette - the list has you as a junior member
does this mean you are still at school ?
Bon jour
Mon Amie
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Tony, I still feel like 16 going on 80. Once a junior...
I am not a lurker but I post only when I have something to say which could help people. So, since I am a "wait and watch", I do not have much to say.
But, for example, I noticed lately a almost complete disappearance of my tinnitus. I am wondering why and making note what makes it come back. I am noticing at the same time an improvement in my hair thickness and texture. I make notes again of what I ate or stopped eating. As for the rest it seems to remain the same. But there is definitely an improvement and it must be the supplements i have decided to take. My nails are now so strong and no more pain in the kidney area. And that I know now for certain what I have to thank for it. Glucosamine has now proven it was badly needed. It is affecting positively more than my joints. The bones also seems to profit. Arthritis has gone with the tinnitus. Did I find something?
I will go back to the farm to morrow. Oddly I can read the ANA there but not the other lists although they are yahoo's too. I can send only when I visit a friend with all computer facilities. But again not to the other lists.
I will have to see into that soon.
Amities de Toronto,
antoinette
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My husbnd returned from a ball game with a new toy for the grandsons. I thought it was a gag gift for me. Well no, he hadn't thought about it, but the bobble heads on the characters reminded me of someone. How funny to watch. I don't look like that most of the time. ;D A good belly laugh is so healthy.
Update: Today my daughter invited me to smell the bloom on the Plummeria. I step up to the blossom an take a sniff. Oops,...pitching forward on the toes, looking like an 11 month old trying to make it to the couch! :D
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Hello Everyone- I ditto on Captain Deb's response And I thought I was so....unique!!!thanks for the laugh Deb!
Brenda
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I was beginning to think that I was back to my childhood "klutzy" ways.I have now crashed three times in the last month and a half and am pretty bruised and sore.Today I got my feet tangled up at work and fell right in front of my boss.Luckily I got a hug as I started to cry out of one eye.Couldn't help the tears bit, it is getting frustrating and I'm starting to feel like an old lady afraid of falling and breaking a hip.(no offense intended to anyone older than me) Does this get better or will I always feel the need to be "careful"?
Jacobs
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Falling and breaking a major bone is the bane of existence for an AN patient. Two months before we discovered my AN I stumbled out of a tall SUV and tore up my shin bone. At my age a fall could lay me up for a long time. Since my recovery began I have stumbled on speed bumps in parking lots, on door sills. I learned to look straight out and chin up. This is the easiest way to keep balance, but then what about not looking down at speed bumps and doors sills? What to do? Be more careful, slow down. Maybe in ten years I'll end up with a cane to slow me down.
I have a dear friend who has MS. She uses a cane from time to time with wonderful grace and attitude. I hope I to do as well.
Maybe someone will invent sneakers with early warning beepers. :D
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Reply to Jacobs - sounds like a nasty fall
Your OP was quite recent, so things may just improve
of their own accord, balance-wise. However I would suggest
a bit of time spent exercising the balance will give much quicker
returns and maybe save you additional pain or embarassment.
Just 25mins per day usually shows early improvements
- there are some web sites that show how/why etc
perhaps someone in the group has the links ?
best regards
tony
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google this for balance exercises that help >>>>> Cawthorne-Cooksey Exercises
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Thanks for the advice guys! Officially back at work next week so I will give the balance exercises more attention.I think I have just been"getting by" so far and managing to fool myself that my balance was ok.
Jacobs
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Hi All,
I remember 6 months ago when I came home from re-hab, I had a terrible time with my balance. I was also stubborn and would not use my walker much..... I fell and I fell. For some reason I kept thinking I would soon get better. But I did have bruises all
over.. I really wanted to have a massage. I made an appointment and when the lady looked at me on the table, she whispered, " Mam, do you realize you have bruises all over your body". I had to convince her not to call the POLICE because my husband was NOT beating me!! HOw's that?????
Pattibobatti
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Yikes. We should be given a card when we have or have had an AN. I have one for when I go through metal detectors because I have titanium hips. Maybe it should read:
"_______ _______ has/had a brain tumor which severely affects her/his balance mechanism. Bruising from walking into walls or falling is completely normal. If you have pulled this person over and suspect he/she is drunk he/she would never in a million years pass the field sobriety tests."
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Kathy,
I like the idea for the card. One of our forum members was actually arrested for suspected DUI shortly before diagnosis (see http://anausa.org/forum/index.php?topic=1231.0). I wonder what the police would think of this. Some of them would probably ask why you're trying to drive if you know you can't walk straight.
Regards,
Rob
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More or less, it happened...
Someone on the old list was stopped by the fuzz
- looking for a drink/drive offence etc
She explained about the surgery etc etc
...and was fined $120
...land of the free...???
best regards
tony
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Kathy,
 I like the idea for the card. One of our forum members was actually arrested for suspected DUI shortly before diagnosis (see http://anausa.org/forum/index.php?topic=1231.0). I wonder what the police would think of this. Some of them would probably ask why you're trying to drive if you know you can't walk straight.
Regards,
Rob
I just read the DUI post. What a story.ÂÂ
My balance is just fine when I am sitting on my butt and holding the steering wheel with both hands. I take that back, washboard dirt roads are my enemy now so I avoid them if possible. I guess I could just tell any officer that pulls me over: if you don't believe me feel the hole in my head cuz they don't give out ID cards for ANs.
Kathy
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Hi everyone - First time to post but feel like I know you all as I've been trolling here for 3 years now. Decided to finally join this merry group and get to know you and vice versa. There was a thread here a while back about losing your balance and funny things that happen to those of us who are blessed with single-sided hearing. My husband also has hearing on only one side from a viral infection so we're quite a pair. Not too long ago, one of the smoke detectors was making that unbearably horrible noise indicating low battery. If you could have seen us trying to figure out which one was beeping - only you folks could appreciate it - we would each stand by one of them (fortunately only 2 involved) and wait for the beeping. He'd say it was his and I'd say, no, it was mine. After several attempts at this, we had that moment of awakening - unplug one of them and stick it under the couch cushion and 'voila! we found the one that was beeping.
As for regaining balance, just walk, walk, walk and walk some more. We do a lot of fishing which before surgery, I just about couldn't do. Between the natural action of the waves and any movement within the boat, I'd be loopy and came close to going overboard more times than I could count. Then, it got so bad, I'd get sick (and this was just on a LAKE for goodness sake) and had to give it up. Now, I fish almost every evening and only have the occasional drunken sailor look.
Well, I could get very detailed here and explain why I've only lurked for 3 years but who needs to hear all that mush. Suffice it to say, I'm sorry I haven't been of any encouragement to you who may have needed but I'm here now and can relate to all of you and hope to get acquainted with each and every one of you now.
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Howdy KatyB:
Nice to meet you!!
I too had one of the "can't figure out where the noise is comming froms" last summer.ÂÂ
Bad storm, storm sirens in the neighborhood blaring, 7:00 am and its just me and the doggie home. The power went out and something was screetching like a smoke alarm. I was running trying to figure out what was making all the racket. Doggie is running too as she hates that noise as much as I do. Well, after yanking all the batteries out of the detectors even though I know they are not hooked up to electricity, checking the microwave and everything else in the house that makes noise when the power goes out I was going crazy as the noise would not quit. The weather was terrible which added to my anxiety - 65 mph winds that blew down one of my huge trees (not onto the house). I was so afraid because it was so loud in my little house and the local weather channel said to get in the basement. Finally after 5 min. of running, bouncing off door jams, tripping on the dog I found the culprit - the carbon monoxide detector plugged into the outlet in my den. I yanked it out of the wall and went to the basement with my dog and coffee and enjoyed the quiet.
Life is good unless something is screetching. Kathy
ps: My neighbor ran over to see if I was ok. She couldn't figure out why I didn't unplug the thing right away!! Now she knows.
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Oh Kathy - that's just way too funny. Doesn't it just drive you batty trying to figure out where noise is coming from! And wind! Now, that's not too funny. I'm glad you made it out of the basement and are here to tell your story! Yes, life is good if something's not screeching.
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Yes, Ive found a new way to lose your balance, you need
1) a flight of stairs
2) two cups of hot tea and a tray (coffee will do)
3) one or more missing balance nerves
and 4) a small black kitten with a desire to capture
any exposed legs or feet on offer
- all four together and you just might lose your balance....
...or at least I did...
Tony
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I DON'T HAVE A BALANCE STORY BUT I CAN NOW DO THE BEST W.C. FIELDS IMPRESSION!!!!!!!!!! Nancy
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walk my dog in the dark for 10 minutes... guaranteed to work. :)
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Doggie trapped a rabbit against the fence last night about 9:00 pm. The back yard is not lit that far back so here is me, grabbing a 70 lb. doggie by the collar and she decides to change directions abruptly. Of course, she took me down. Then, I got up and started walking back to the house. Uneven part of the lawn and down I went again. This time into the pile she must have left before she trapped the rabbit. Yuck. I laughed all the way to the shower. I was glad it was dark as I was in my jammies, robe and slippers. No witnesses. Kathy
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I guess at this time I'm still the lucky one. Waiting patiently for my surgery (january) I just have now to tolerate the dizzyness that I feel when I get up from my dest at work, turn the corner of the hall to my office, or try to move quickly through the ER that I work in, erither as an Admin or as a nurse. Have come close to falling at work a couple of times, haven't hit the floor yet.
The handrails at home upstairs to my bedroom have gotten more use in the last 2 months, than in the last 4 years. I still get dizzy driving when I turn my head quickly.
Gee. With all of this pre-op, I can hardly wait.............
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Yuck!! .. reminds me of the time about 6-7 years ago .. I went outside to turn off some Christmas lights .. and UNKNOWN to me I stepped in doggie poo >:( .. and went BACK inside, and walked around in all the rooms in the house turning off lights and closing drapes as I went getting ready for bed .. until I was interrupted by my wife SCREAMING (at me! ::) ) that there was my foot prints all over the house!!! ...(I now take off my shoes off at the door :o )
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Horrible........horrible......
Funny. I feel exactly the same way whenever / after I speak with certain people......Gee...............I wonder why?
Paul