As our daughter is home from the U.S. Naval Academy (Class of 2010) for a couple of weeks of summer vacation, we took a trip down to Hot Springs, Arkansas for a couple of days. At the edge of town is an amusement park. Since our room came with tickets to the park we used them today.
Prior to my AN removal, one of the things that my daughter, Kali, and I had in common is the love of riding roller coasters. My wife, Cyrilee, is not much on riding any of the the rides that have a heighth requirement. I waited patiently until our daughter managed to be taller than Mickey (or the local equivalent). Cyrilee swears I used to hang weights off of Kali's ankles at night to help her grow faster. Then the anticipation of how she would handle the first roller coaster...that delighted squeal and the "Let's go again." were truly music to my ears.
My AN removal left me with a mild case of wonky head...a bit of unsteadiness more than anything else but enough to notice the difference. Since the surgery, I haven't been any place that had a thrill type ride and did not know if I would be able to ride anymore.
Today we found out... roller coasters on wonky head rocks. At least for me... my level of wonkiness expresses itself by intensifying the sensations we ride roller coasters for. I also found I could intensify the sensations by focusing on something that was not moving in relation to my eyes thereby increasing the discrepency between what my eyes were reporting to my brain and what my ears were reporting to my brain. But then I miss all the pretty scenery zipping by at 70 miles per hour.
While I realize that wonky head is a lot more serious for some folks, and you all truly have my sympathies. There's nothing quite so bad as to have a sensnation going on that makes you feel "off". Happily though, for me, it doeesn't interfere much with my everyday life and now I've found it gives me more bang for my roller coaster buck.
..take care... tim b
