Prompts and a follow-up

I got my assignment from the sshg_promptfest today! It wasn't my first choice, but it was a very close second, and I'm stoked.

nagandsev asked for an update after my doctor visit. I'm reluctant to bore you with details, so here are the headlines. The doc says the inner ear is still out of whack after the fall. Something about, there is sand in the tubes of your ears that helps you keep your balance. In my case, the sand shifted and hasn't shifted back yet. This condition can't be fixed. I'll just have to put up with the occasional vertigo until/unless the sand shifts back one day.

Then I saw a hearing specialist who told me my hearing is normal for someone my age, but that I have tinnitus and it can't be fixed until/unless it goes away on its own. She suggested I find ways to forget the noise is happening. Oh, okay! No problem!

Results were unsatisfying, to say the least. I'm still deciding whether to accept them with good grace. I imagine this is what middle age has in store for me - little tiny symptoms caused by little tiny problems. And doctors who say, "The body was only meant to live about forty years. Evolution has not yet caught up to the phenomenon of the HMO. So go home and take vitamins, and enjoy your borrowed time."