THE RUN AROUND - Vertigo style

On my list of doctor visits I can now cross off Neurologist.

At first I was hopeful that this was it. This guy is bound to have the answers. As per usual I wait for over an hour before I am seen, listen to the doctor's aids at the front desk swapping gossip, reading the paper and argue over what's better Staten Island of Brooklyn. In the meanwhile I am filling out a million sheets of paper, most asking the same exact questions over and over. But then I came to one that I wasn't sure what to put down.

With my clipboard in hand I approach the "busy" aid and ask
"Here it says to put employees name but as of a few days ago I am unemployed. Do I still put it since it's how I have my insurance.?"
Some how that won them over. Anything I needed, including a direct number to reach them was in my graps.
"Oh you poor thing! To have this medical condition and to be let go?"
I go on to explain how my insurance is up at the end of the month. So do you think whatever test the doctor needs me to go have done can be with in a few days?
"Absolutely."
It's not a lie but I still feel weird about the reaction they gave me.

The doctor did indeed send me for an MRI. But before that he examined me. He did the whole hammer on the joints bit (which popped that huge lump in my wrist - GROSS!). He had me squeeze his hand. He looked into my eyes and ears.
After he says I want you to close your eyes and march really big in place. So I do it for what feels like five minutes and then he says:
"Okay. Stop. Don't open your eyes. Do you think you moved at all?"
Of course I say "no". But then he paused which made me think 'well I might have moved a little bit', "maybe a few steps back" I say.
"Well open your eyes."
I was two inches from running into the wall! Not only did I move - but I moved forward across the room and over to the right.
"That's it "he said. "Follow me".
We go back to his office and he writes down "Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo"
"Go google it" he says.
He goes on to say before I can say for certain this is it - I need to rule out anything else.

So a few days later I was lying in an MRI machine.

I've never had sugary or anything majorly medical done to me so this was very scary at first -- specially since I am claustrophobic. Luckily, since he was scanning my brain I didn't have to go all the way into the machine. But once I was in there I found it strangely relaxing. Sure there was a lot of noise - mechanical sounding - but I had on ear plugs. I just let the sounds turn into music. (They had strong rhythmic beats and somehow that soothed me.) After 20 minutes the guy working the machine told me what a nice person I was. Probably because I was asleep the whole time?

Another few days passed and the test result came back - my brain is normal. So does that mean I have Vertigo? If not what is wrong with me?

I called the doctors and after a few miss communications it seems more tests are needed. Of course they are. Meanwhile I don't feel dizzy anymore (just a little hint of it.) And my insurance is up very soon. So now I have to either get my own insurance and keep going to all these random test and doctors or I can just deal with it until I get a new job with health insurance. But then again this dizziness has already come and gone twice now. Who is to say it won't be back ten times worse?