V for Vertigo

I read an article recently that said Hitchcock's Vertigo replaced Citizen Kane as the #1 movie of all time. I saw it for the first time a few years ago and it is a very good film.

I'm not a huge Hitchcock fan or even a big fan of James Stewart but I wanted to see Vertigo because I've had issues with vertigo for years. When I worked at Geico I had problems almost every week. Now I only have to deal with the lovely dizziness once or twice a year. It's usually accompanied by nausea. Today is another one of those days. Vertigo is usually caused by disruption in the inner ear. Some people have Meiniere's disease (or as my brother likes to call it, Manure's disease) which is vertigo plus mild tinnitus and hearing loss. The most annoying thing about vertigo is there really isn't a 'cure' and most activities are very difficult when it's happening. Movements need to be very slow and reading, watching TV, working on the computer, and even lying down are unpleasant. It's hard to explain the sensation to people who haven't felt it before. I searched images on Google and most of what I got back were movie posters (see above) and photography that did indeed cause me to feel woozy.

We used to try a maneuver on my grandpa where he would sit on the bed and we would turn his head this way and that and then make him lay down on the bed. He said it worked but it seemed silly to me. One of my doctors told me to lay on my back, hang my head over the bed, and turn while looking at something sedentary like a doorknob. It worked once but any other time I would lay there for hours and nothing would get better. It should be gone tomorrow so here's to positvie thinking.