Well, I decided to join in the fun and go to a New Year's Eve party with my brother.  His wife is from Mexico, so we went to her side of the family.  Relatives and siblings total a small city.  The music was loud, and the food plenty.

We had eaten at a restaurant beforehand because we already had reservations.  But that did not seem to matter.  When we said we had already eaten, they ignored you, and proceeded to tell you the menu anyway.  When you repeated the line that you had already eaten, they served you anyway.  So after awhile, you just gave up and let them serve you, but you didn't touch the food.

But of course the highlight was when I started to get sick.  I kept fighting it off to no avail.  I looked at the clock ten minutes to midnight, the clock kept ticking down.  Soon it was midnight.  I could barely stand and throngs of people came to wish me happy new year.  With each new hug and kiss, I lost a little more balance.  Mexicans do not have little parties - they have big parties.  Santiago, my brother's brother-in-law must have hugged me for five minutes, but that was not the nail in the coffin.  It was a teenage boy whose name I do not know who came over to hug me shaking me like one of his comrades and I was down for the count.

My wife and brother had to carry me to the car, because I had a violent attack.  Of course, one of the party goers stated the obvious, "He had a little too much."  I thought to myself, "yes, but it is not what you think."

Today January 1st, I hope I recuperate, but these attacks are the worst.

 

 


Comments

Nikki Chavez

06/10/2010 06:50:23

i'm so sorry that happend to you and i'm not just another preson cause i really know how you feel my big brother was 18 and in 11th grade when we first found out he had ataxia(i don't really know how to spell it.)now he is still at home not able to talk right not able to stand, walk on his own he is now 20. and all the doctors say is they don't know how to help him and they just do test and put him on meds wich make him worse. they now want to put him in a place were we can't be with him and he's alone so they can do test on him but like i said when they do that it make every thing worse on him. but when it happens here all he wants is my dad cause he calms him down so because of that my dad had to quit his job and stop working so he can help my brother so now we don't have that much money we are living off of foodstamps, family's money, and my dad donating. so now i'm tring at 16 years old to get a job to help out but when i do some thing like try to get a job my brother get's mad cause he never had one and he thinks he might never get one. So i do know how it feel's for you and i'm sorry people said that, they shold have respect for you having to but put throw this. well if you ever want to keep in touch my e-mail is skinwaler25@aol.com or if you want to talk to my brother his is acdc4ozzy@aol.com

 

Ataxia

05/15/2011 11:56:41

Hi
I am glad you shared this desription of ataxia as I didnt realise that it could cause vertigo/dizzyness, I always wondered if my son was experiencing this although not diagnosed with Ataxia it is one of the symptoms of his condition.
Thanks

 



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