Not a thrilling new development

[sienamystic]

Since yesterday, I've had bouts of fairly intense vertigo - the room swirling around me plus a side-helping of nausea - when I get up from a slightly or fully prone position. I don't know if it's some side effect of my surgery that is only showing up now, an infection, or something going on in my inner ear (I have allergy problems out the wazoo, and even with my trusty nasal spray and two pills, I tend to have stuff going on). I'm running a very mild fever - 99.5. Don't know if that means anything. If it doesn't pass quickly, I'll have to call my doctor, which will be another bill that I really don't fucking need right now. Really really.

I just tore through Special Topics in Calamity Physics. It was definitely a page-turner, although it had a host of irritating quirks, some of which started out as charming and ended up being vastly aggravating. It could have done with some trimming, because five hundred pages is just a big of a slog when the extra-deliberatly quirky writing is starting to wear. It would make a good paired read with The Basic Eight and perhaps even The Secret History. But tonally, it reminds me a lot of The Basic Eight, which Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) wrote, and I'm interested that this author apparently had a bidding war over her book when I think Handler managed his conceits much better. But it was a good read and, towards the end, particularly gripping. I'm not sure if it'll pass the reread test for me, though.

OK, god. This nausea thing sucks rocks. Feeling nauseated is a sensation I particularly loathe - when I was in recovery in the hospital, I was more upset by the nausea from the anesthetic than I was the pain in my throat or from my incision.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who has now dealt with the sensation for over a year (thanks to my dead stomach), I understand fully and hope you get better soon. I find that worse than the pain of surgery, too...when I had my surgery in January, I explained my bad reaction to anesthesia and they gave me a lighter dose that made me vomit slightly only once while i was just waking up and so don't remember it.

I hope it is just an ear infection and will pass soon. I'd get thee to the doctor, though...
Jess

[nigita.livejournal.com]

Ugh, nausea and vertigo. I hope you feel better.

Thanks for the review of Calamity--I wasn't sure whether to invest time in getting and reading it. I think I'll read other stuff first.