Vertigo!!!

No, not that cool U2 song.

I had my first vertigo experience when I was, maybe, 9. The first time I felt it was when one of the neighborhood kids accidentally knocked me off-balance. I felt like the world suddenly started spinning so fast.

I thought it was an isolated case. I was still able to ride roller coasters afterwards. My tolerance for motion sickness, though, weakened as I grew older.

As of October 2009, just when I have both Captain Awesome and Little Princess with me in California Adventure, the very simple yet really cool Mickey Mouse Ferris wheel ride made me dizzy. I felt bad that Captain Awesome didn’t get to experience all the other rides because he didn’t have the required adult companion to ride with. That kid, well, he’s a daredevil. We can’t get him to mount a bike without training wheels, alright, but he’d hop in a kayak, jump off a boat to snorkel and go for anything that lifts him up tens of feet from the ground and spin him upside down.

Anyway, for the past 4 days, I have been having bouts of vertigo. NOT. FUN. AT. ALL.

And there’s no natural remedy for it. I have to take medicines…I taking in chemicals. I smoked for years, but I can’t stand “intoxicating” my body with manufactured drugs.

Ooooh…I wish it would feel like the world is moving normally again.