{"id":136,"date":"2002-09-25T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-25T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=136"},"modified":"2002-09-25T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-25T22:51:00","slug":"hitchcockitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/136-hitchcockitis","title":{"rendered":"Hitchcockitis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I&#8217;ve come down with an attack of <i>North by Northwest<\/i>, or <i>The Birds<\/i>, or <i>Frenzy<\/i>&#8230; one of those Hitchcock movie things&#8230; oh, yes: <b><i>VERTIGO<\/i><\/b>! Too bad it couldn&#8217;t have been <i>The Man Who Knew Too Much<\/i>; I could have gone to play trivia Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to my doctor today about my Hitchcockitis. She said Vertigo usually clears itself up, and all they usually do is wait to see what happens over time. She doesn&#8217;t think my blood pressure medication, which I stopped taking yesterday, would be to blame for the dizziness, but she doesn&#8217;t think coming off it for a little while will do any harm. <\/p>\n<p>Having low blood pressure will cause lightheadedness, or the feeling you&#8217;re about to faint. Dizziness is caused by an imbalance of the body&#8217;s equilibrium system, which is located in the inner ears.<\/p>\n<p>She suggested I check my blood pressure myself (at the drugstore) once in a while just to keep an eye on it, and take my pills again if it looks like it&#8217;s getting out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>I think the Vertigo might be caused by a cold or flu or other virus type thing, so I&#8217;m going to take some drugs (Aspirin) and go to bed early and see if I feel better. I have been feeling better a bit at a time day by day, so that&#8217;s probably what is going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I&#8217;ve come down with an attack of North by Northwest, or The Birds, or Frenzy&#8230; one of those Hitchcock movie things&#8230; oh, yes: VERTIGO! Too bad it couldn&#8217;t have been The Man Who Knew Too Much; I could have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/136-hitchcockitis\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}