{"id":6479,"date":"2014-10-06T19:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T00:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2014-10-24T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T20:50:19","slug":"vng-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6479","title":{"rendered":"VNG Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw my ENT this morning to go over the results of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Videonystagmography\" target=\"_blank\">VNG<\/a> I had last Tuesday. Diagnosis &#8211; I have a 35% weakness to a structure in my right ear (I forget what he called it) which is causing my balance issue. The cause is either from a virus or a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vestibular_schwannoma\">vestibular schwannoma<\/a> which is a benign tumor. I&#8217;m going for an MRI next Monday to check for the tumor, although the doctor said it&#8217;s mostly to rule it out since based on the fact that the balance thing came on suddenly, he feels it&#8217;s most likely related to a past virus. If so, I will have to go for rehabilitation where I can do exercises to encourage my left ear to make up for the weakness in the right. Very strange, but I trust he knows what he&#8217;s talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Between the death in the family, my brother annoying me this weekend, being neglected by someone I thought of as a friend, not feeling well, and not looking forward to going to work, I&#8217;m cranky as all hell today. I slept nine hours last night and I still feel like crap. Plus this cough from being sick two weeks ago is getting on my last nerve as it won&#8217;t go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw my ENT this morning to go over the results of the VNG I had last Tuesday. Diagnosis &#8211; I have a 35% weakness to a structure in my right ear (I forget what he called it) which is causing my balance issue. The cause is either from a virus or a vestibular schwannoma which is a benign tumor. I&#8217;m going for an MRI next Monday to check for the tumor, although the doctor said it&#8217;s mostly to rule it out since based on the fact that the balance thing came on suddenly, he feels it&#8217;s most likely related to a past virus. If so, I will have to go for rehabilitation where I can do exercises to encourage my left ear to make up for the weakness in the right. Very strange, but I trust he knows what he&#8217;s talking about. Between the death in the family, my <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6479\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6519,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions\/6519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}