I began writing well this morning, but dizziness struck again around 5:30. When the guards unlocked the housing unit at 6:00 I went outside to run. I finished 10 miles, boosting my tally to 1,478 miles over the past 167 days.
At 9:15 I had an appointment with the nurse. She recorded my vital statistics. My blood pressure was 124 over 72. My pulse was 59. And my oxygen saturation, whatever that means was 96 percent. The nurse said my health statistics were fine. She used a scope to look in my ears and and she said my ear drum was swollen and that I had accumulated fluid. It was the fluid, she said, that was causing my dizziness. She prescribed a medication that I heard her identify as CTM, which the nurse said would dry the fluid in my ear.
I took a tablet at 9:30 this morning, another tablet at noon, and I will take a third tablet at 5:00 PM. The tablets cause drowsiness that blocks my creativity. Thus I was not successful inwriting much more on the manuscript. I’m on page 73, though I feel as if I should have reached page 80 by now.
The nurse has prescribed his medication for me for three days. If it clears up my dizziness, it will be worth the interruption to my writing progress.
Thursday, 28 May 2009
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