My Nonprofit Reviews

This organization is finally shining a light on the complexities and enormous difficulties experienced by people with vestibular disorders. My diagnosis (40% dysfunctional left inner ear vestibular nerve) was given over 35+ years ago, and I still suffer from it's disabling symptoms today. Just the fact that research is being done, and remedies are being sought has been uplifting to my spirit. Doctors in past decades (even specialists) had no effective medical tools to help patients, which has been very demoralizing. It is a disease that is now in the category of disability, but was not considered such during my working years. Struggling to meet the demands of employment when (vertigo, disequilibrium and drop attacks) would occur spontaneously and often without warning, became so difficult. I was fortunate to have a 'progressive' employer, who allowed me to be the first employee in that corporation to telecommute from home in the mid-80's. This disease has enormously diminished my quality of life.