What We Added To Meniere's Disease .ca in March 2005

I received this unusual question a while ago and though it might make an interested in this thought-provoking idea as well as being an interesting article. Why should we be healthy? What is the opposite or alternative? The word “health” encompasses several parts of your being: physical, mental, social. Lives change, and so does your thinking when you face illness with a close family member. Suddenly you realize they have “become” sick. That’s an action word: not just a thing. And this is happening, right now and you wish you could stop it. But you don’t have any idea where to start. Our medical community is still not inclined to teach prevention as opposed to treatment.

March 21, 2005

I was going through the website this afternoon doing some housekeeping when I came across Debbie's and Michael's stories. I realized that both of these stories had been buried within the website and I was thinking of moving both of them to a new page. For some reason I stopped and took a few minutes out of my day to read both of these stories and I am very glad that I did.

It has been a long time since I have had to deal with any of my fathers' drop attacks or watching him crawl to bed with a bucket in case he was sick. I had lost some of the understanding of what it is like for the family to live through this terrible affliction.

Reading Debbie's and Michael's stories brought that all back to me. I thought that it was important for this to be shared with those of you who are looking for information on Meniere's Disease.

I was on the outside, looking into what my father had been going through, I cannot even begin to understand the torment, but these two stories brought back a lot of what I had forgotten.

Debbie's Story with Meniere's Disease

My name is Debbie, I am 45 years old and I have dealt with the horrible disabling disease called Meniere's Disease since November of 1997. The Doctor's told me that I had tinnitus and there was nothing that could be done for it. I was told I would have to just learn to live with it.

Michael's Story with Meniere's Disease

My story began back in February 1996. I went along to the doctor for what I thought would be a routine syringing of my left ear. It had felt full - blocked up. I had also felt very slightly dizzy, which I put down to the blocked ear and wearing my walkman too much. The doctor took one look, told me there was nothing in the ear then announced that I must have Meniere's Disease.

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