Don't Let the Incurable Disease Define You!

I have been living with Meniere's Disease for 16 years (in my right ear). Most people don't know, but I'm deaf in my right ear from the inner ear disease and it affects my balance when it's "out of whack". I've been having to have an ear shunt (works the same way as a brain shunt, since my ear doesn't drain fluid properly due to the disease) replaced every 4 years for the last 12 years. It will be four years in March since my last shunt revision. I've gone the last three weeks in a row for ear treatments where they run antibiotic & steroid medicine down in my ear, and I lie still afterwards for 30 minutes. I have taken the meds by mouth. I haven't seen enough progress yet and things aren't working right. It's a nasty and incurable disease, and you never know when it's going to flare up or cause problems. When the attacks happen, I'm in bed for days with horrible exhaustion and brain fog... so when I can get out I do go, and ...