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Can I ask for some prayer?
I'm having an inner ear problem that's causing me to experience *severe* vertigo when I lay down.  The room spins as if I were laying on top of a frisbee.  When I go to sit up, the room spins again.  But once I am up, I feel pretty good - just head congestion.  This vertigo has come and gone for the last 2 months.  I had it 2 weeks ago for 4 days.  I went to an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist who tried to replicate the vertigo in his office and could not.  He gave me an arsenal of decongestants and I was hesitant to take them because the vertigo I'd had before seemed to follow taking decongestants.  But this time, it came on without having taken them.  So, now I'm going to take the whole arsenal which I pray will alleviate this vertigo in time for my departure.

I think that if I arrive in Tanzania and am still having this vertigo it will not (I WILL NOT LET IT!) prevent me from being full engaged in the group I am traveling with.  My biggest fear is the potential ear pain while on the flight.  That could be extremely unpleasant.  But who knows, maybe I'll get on the plane and my ears will painfully pop and that will be the cure!  I'm thinking optimistically here...

Please pray for my ears.  I really do need this to go away.

~~Andrea