Doctor Bhansali said that Mom's ears are functioning as they were designed - no physical anomolies in her vestibule which would cause imbalance. Three things go into balance, sight, ears, and feeling. Two of these are compromised. Mom's eyes and her feeling (neuropathy and reduced reflexes in her legs and feet). This contributes to her lack of balance.
As for her dizziness, Dr. BH said that it could be that the atrophy of her cerebral/cerebellar area could contribute to the dizziness and loss of balance and perhaps the high white blood cell count.
He has written a prescription for Mom to go to a physical therapist for an assessment. We will do that after we do the blood doctor tomorrow and the eye doctor on Thursday. If the PT exercises we already have from the first physical therapist are good we should continue them. If the PT recommends medication of some sort or other PT, he will write it the prescrition for us.
Mom has also lost her high end hearing - not completely but it could be improved with hearing-aids. She does not want them although she says her friend Gertrude should also have HA's. So who knows. We should make an appointment to follow up with Dr. Bhansali in one year. The exception is if Mom feels the room spinning and extraordinary dizziness we should call immediately and see him as he likes to see a patient as close to an episode as possible.
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