I'm pushing and pushing and I can't stop!
“Quit pushing!” I have been accused of pushing my entire life, for as long as I can remember. Now don’t get the wrong idea. I don’t literally push people around either physically or emotionally… not that I realize anyway. My pushing involves pushing myself.
How do I push my tongue thru this gum to make a bubble?
When the hula hoop craze was in, I guess that would have been around the early 60’s, I wanted one really bad. My mom finally got me one and I was outside from morning to night hula hooping like some hula lunatic. I wanted to be able to do it around my waist, up and down my body back and forth, around my legs, around one leg, around… well, whatever. I didn’t have the sense to know when to quit. I didn’t think that maybe I should take a break from hula hooping to play Barbie’s for awhile, or swing, or beat on my sister, or bug my brother. It seems like when I choose to do something I often go too far. I now realize this about myself and therefore try to keep a cap on it, which is important for me to do having Meniere’s Disease. When I go out to “tend” my flower beds (which anyone who knows me won’t believe because I have always hated this job in the past) I have to force myself to come in before I get overheated. In TX, depending on the time of year, that may be only a five-minute window. If my ears start getting more stuffy, or my tinnitus increases, or any of my other symptoms change I know I better stop immediately or the next thing I will be having an attack. This does not apply to only physical activities but non-physical ones also. No matter what activity I am doing, if I start getting fatigued or notice changes in my I still have difficulty with it, but the alternative is not a place I like to visit.
I'm not pushing... I'm sucking!
For others of you having Meniere’s, try to keep in mind not to push. Be cognitive of your limitations and listen to what your body tells you. Hopefully this little tidbit of advice will help ward off a full-fledged Meniere’s attack. It will certainly assist in reducing the “mini-attacks” and those times of just not feeling well.
