My “aha” moment wouldn’t come at the signing of my leave of absence contract. Nor would it awaken me at night with the chair-gripping dizziness I had come to expect.
When the vertigo started in early December during my third block of clerkship, I chalked the symptoms up to stress.
Over the December break, I met with my family doctor and casually recounted my symptoms. The vertigo had worsened, and seemed questionably sound-induced. The quiet noises became louder. The louder noises became unbearable. And the loudest noises set off nystagmus.
Handing me a pile of differentials and a wealth of associated requisites, what she didn’t account for was the weight of what I was being handed.
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