Mom is dizzy today. That awful, room is spinning, kind of dizzy. What a horrible feeling!
About 8am, I hear a voice faintly calling me, "M, are you up?" There are only a couple of things worse than hearing your 83 year old Mother calling for you! I had heard Mom up much earlier (around 6:30am) when she went to the bathroom. I thought that she got up to take her pill. Not the case.
I go into Mom's bedroom to find that she is trying to sit up in bed, but is holding her head. She asks me to go get her pills from the bathroom. She needs to take her pill but she doesn't want to get out of bed as she is dizzy. The room is spinning. I can tell that it's bad as I help her to sit up and watch her face. It takes several minutes for the room to right itself and stop spinning.
I ask if she was dizzy when she went to bed. She says that she wasn't, but that at 3:30am when she got up to go to the bathroom, she was REALLY dizzy. She had to stay in the bathroom for 10 minutes before she could make it back to bed. Side note: Did she call me for help then? No! UGH
When she got up to go to the bathroom at 6:30am, she was still pretty dizzy. Just wanted to go lay back down so didn't take her pill. The room spins when she tries to sit-up or when she lays back down. Takes a good few minutes for it to stop.
Mom had a problem with dizziness awhile back. She got a prescription for Meclazine that helped a great deal. She asks me to check her pill bag for that bottle of pills and bring it to her. The prescription dates back to 2006. Oops! Looks like it's time for another one.
I know that the dizziness is bad when Mom takes one of those pills. I hope that she will be fine in a bit. It can't be fun to have the room spinning, especially if it's not alcohol-induced spinning! ;-)
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