-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 09-12-15  03:30 <=-

 >> It was a beautiful dress in the fashion of the time.  I picked out the
 >> colors and fabric after consulting with the stage designer, we had a
 >> great time with that.
 > I can well imagine..  :)

 JK> With my hair being long and brown (it's natural color as you probably
 JK> know) the dress was a peach print with lace.  That fit pretty well, I
 JK> agreed with him. 

Very pretty..  :) 

 >> These days when it does hit it is no where as severe as back when I
 >> first got it, as well.  The first time it hit, I was immediately puking
 >> and the spinning was outrageous, and severe.  Now if I notice a weird
 >> momentary spin, that's about as bad as it gets.
 > I can appreciate the relief.. ;)  I periodically go through times where
 > I have vertigo, probably the benign positional type...

 JK> That's nasty.. any idea what it's from? To me there is no "benign"
 JK> type :) When it hits say as I go to sleep I take an antivert..
 JK> Positional.. Sometimes it hits out of the blue, though rarely.

"Benign", I believe, only indicates that it isn't being caused by some
sort of nasty malignancy... ;/  When I went to the otolaryngologist, he
said it was the classic sort from the crystals in the ear getting in the
wrong place, and did the manipulation to move them back where they
belonged.. it sorta worked, for a while...  Seems to come and go for its
own reasons, really..  ;0  I've noticed a stress vector with it, as
with a number of other things that come and go for me, like migraines
and gout... thankfully, they don't all hit at once... they take their
turns... ;)

 JK> You can buy antivert over the counter now, btw.. it's chemical name is
 JK> Meclizine.. CVS has it under their motion-sickness drug "Dramamine",
 JK> it's what I take :) I remember when my neurologist told me it available
 JK> over the counter, I thought he was nuts.. but back then, I didn't know
 JK> the chemical name. It was just "antivert" to me 
 
At one point, I did get some... and then chickened out about taking
it...  It didn't help that I'd usually get the symptoms when I wasn't
home... like when I was at the massage therapist, on the table, turning
over... or I'd get the symptoms turning over in bed... and not want to
get up to take a med...  At the moment (knock on wood) that's in
remission... as is the gout...  ;)

 JK> Yes, I went through something similar early on.. we were at the Bronx
 JK> Zoo with our kids, having a great time. It was so neat :)  Then we went
 JK> into the Bat Cave Lol... I thought I was gonna die.  I hadn't brought
 JK> any antivert because, well, I had felt as normal as the next guy for
 JK> weeks or months :)  MS is like that   Once it hit though I just had
 JK> to remember it passes, and it did. 

Lots of other chronic/recurrent things are like that, even without MS...
I know by experience... ;)

 JK> And I was sure careful I didn't make
 JK> any quick moves or stay in the dark recesses :)
 JK> I think I also told Ron, "Get me out of here" LOL

Having someone else to take you away is often the best medicine.. (G)  

 JK> Ron's Aunt:
 >> Think so.. She has a large rambling home up in the catskills and I'm
 >> sure her family hires help for her to maintain it.
 > If they aren't just doing the help for her themselves... :)

 JK> Oh she's one of those relatives who has "old money". In NYS, that's
 JK> something. She's well kept after and watched over. :)
 
That's a good thing, then... :)

 >> Yes, there are a good number of people who are gluten free these days.
 >> I just may make the gluten free one and forgo the 'gluten' one.  I've
 >> gotten very good at making gluten free great tasting cakes, and most
 >> people can't tell the difference.  You just have to have the right
 >> ingredients :)
 > As long as they don't have too much "bean-y" flours, I can quite enjoy
 > the non-gluten cakes and such... but the beans make me too gassy...

 JK> Nah, I never use beany flours because they do the same thing to me ...
 JK> and the taste is...hmmm beany :)  I either use rice flour maybe mixed
 JK> with tapioca flour, or almond flour with lots of eggs (about 4).

Almond flour generally I do quite well with...  :)

 JK> but here's a neat recipe for rice flour:
 JK> ==Gluten Free Yellow Cake==

Looks good.. :)

ttyl       neb

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