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A Tale of Caring...

Hello, it's Trevor here. As some of you know, this blog post was supposed to have been written last weekend. Sometimes in life things happen, so I will be sharing about that and some other issues on Brenda's heart. Brenda is now an 8½ year meningioma brain tumor survivor. Her motion issues have become worse, since having gone through this experience. One in particular, is her attacks of benign positional vertigo. Essentially it's when you have a false sense that the room is spinning and when you go back to the original position, before you experience that false sense, the room does not spin. It has something to do with the inner ear and crystals that get out of proportion. Brenda had not had an attack for quite sometime, but last Saturday that all changed. It lasted well over 5 hours. She had her anti-nausea medicine and meclizine on hand. The trick was to get to it, without falling down. She was leaning over the toilet, with her head down and sweat dri...