Falling but I Can Get Up

Oops, I did it again!

This time I fell ON my face.

I broke my new glasses.

I was putting on my panties.  I was in the bathroom. Brushing teeth, getting dressed, etc.  I was bent over putting one foot into the leg hole, and I got dizzy again, and I fell forward into the wall, face-first.  OUCH.  

I pushed myself away from the wall, shook it off, laughed, and finished dressing.  I have a goose egg, and my glasses are a hot mess.  I was hurrying because I wanted to get this stuff outside into the garbage on garbage day. I was just throwing on a baseball cap and figured I would do my hair and makeup later when I was leaving the house.

I have a nice goose egg on my head. I don't know how, though. I hit the wall with my face, but my head at my hairline has a nice bruise too.

Yes, I am seeing a doctor about this. It's been in the works for a long time.

Waiting to get in.  I get dizzy a lot, and I have to grab something until it's over. I am also nauseated most days, and I even throw up on some days.

 

On this particular day, I didn't have a chance to grab anything as one leg was in the air and the other was planted firmly on the ground. 

It's all kind of funny to me. So much so that I took my 4th selfie and showed my mom. I said, "you think anyone will notice my glasses are broken?"

Her first comment was I looked like I lost weight then she proceeded to be concerned. She does make me laugh. I haven't lost an ounce but it made me laugh!  I needed that.

As you know, I am clumsy. Iron on my boob, falling down steps that required surgery, only I can get a torn meniscus when going down on one knee in GENTLE Yoga.

The list is long. But now that I'm old, this is a concern.  God, how I hate being old. 

Am I going to be relegated to sitting activities? Say it ain't so!

Is that why you see seniors playing bingo and painting ceramic items that someone else made? I can't do those things. Sure, I've played drinking bingo, but this is the boring bingo. Nope, not for me.

But then neither is walking and standing, it appears.

Holy shit, this is crazy.  

I am certain there is a reason.  'They' think it's a side effect of one of my medications. I am seeing that doctor next Tuesday, so I hope to find out. I've had brain scans, CT scans, MRIs, and everything else you can think of.

Nothing appears to be wrong. I just get terribly dizzy daily, and sometimes I fall, and I have morning sickness all day. What could be wrong with that? 

Rick has suggested that he put me in bubble wrap.  I don't think that it is as necessary as he thinks it is. But there are days I do wonder.

I got dizzy while in Wegman's the other day (grocery store), and I had my cart to hold on to. I moved to the side and waited it out. All was good. The nausea passed, and I was no longer dizzy, so on I went to buy food.

Can I live with this? Not really. I've taken to only wearing flat sneakers. Nothing with a heel or platform.  

My entire life has been heels of some sort or platforms because I am short.

Even sneakers have a platform.

It's weird to wear flat shoes all the time. 

Another reminder that I am an old fart.  

While I do hate it, I don't wish to die from falling off my shoes. 

That would so be my luck, and then I couldn't tell you the funny story of how the hell that happened.