http://www.newsobserver.com/734/story/672263.html

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" Williams' vertigo lingers UNC coach works through latest bout Robbi Pickeral, Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL - Four and a half weeks after a nauseating vertigo attack, North Carolina men's basketball coach Roy Williams was still feeling the effects as he juggled calls, paperwork and meetings on Wednesday. "Right now, I'd say I'm 85-90 percent, but I can still feel it,'' he said. "... But I'm going to be fine. I don't think there's any doctors laying awake at night about 'Ol Roy, and I don't think they should." Williams said that over the years, doctors in Chapel Hill and Lawrence, Kan., and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have diagnosed him with what's termed "benign positional vertigo." The condition "usually results from a problem with the nerves and the structures of the balance mechanism in your inner ear that sense movement and changes in the position of your head,'' according to the Mayo Clinic's Web site (http://www.mayoclinic.com). Vertigo is characterized by intense dizzy spells but is "rarely serious,'' according to the site. But it is bothersome. This is Williams' sixth bout in 11 years, and it's a separate ailment from the "head rushes" he sometimes suffers when he moves too quickly during games. (That, too, has been checked at the Mayo Clinic, he said, and is not serious.) Williams' previous five vertigo episodes were brief -- he'd vomit five times in an hour and a half, then be fine the next day, he said. This time, however, he stayed in bed all day July 16, started vomiting July 17 -- and when he left to go recruiting July 21, he had friends drive him around for five days. "There's no question that the travel has not helped it,'' Williams said. "Since the end of May, I've gone to Hawaii and back and across the United States five times." And that doesn't include his April trip to London and Ireland. Still, Williams said he hasn't canceled any recruiting trips and has been doing everything he normally would if he were feeling 100 percent, except playing golf. He is back behind the wheel and down to taking one low dosage of medication per day -- compared with two medications plus some nausea pills a month ago. He also has been inundated with suggestions for home remedies from fans. But he said doctors here tell him the same thing as the doctors at the Mayo Clinic, where he was tested while coaching at Kansas: Don't make sudden motions with your head, take your medicine and, eventually, you'll be fine. "I'm not as comfortable as I'd like to be, and when I get up, I get up slower,'' Williams said. "Early in the mornings, I'm a little more light-headed than I'd like to be. "... But I'm still more fortunate than 99.9 percent of people in the world. That's the way I look at it." "

Theres got to be certain types of motion or patterns we could add to signs that have shown to amplify vertigo. Ideas?

8/16/2007 10:54:18 PM

we could just flood the arena and float the court on rough seas.....

8/16/2007 10:55:56 PM

this would be easy to do

8/16/2007 11:06:45 PM

Someone get one of those flashlights that make you vomit.

8/16/2007 11:08:06 PM

well, that's it. i might as well give up on nc state athletics forever

we're obviously going to kill the man with these shenanigans, the nation will mourn, hatred will rain down on nc state from across the land and our athletic teams will forever be cursed

8/17/2007 3:38:13 AM

alarmist

8/17/2007 7:41:37 AM

threads like this are why WRAL loves TWW...

8/17/2007 8:50:42 AM

This thread is stupid. Roy Williams is not a bad person and acting like we need to exploit his medical condition is just nonsense.

8/17/2007 9:00:26 AM

It's not Roy we hate, just UNC undergrads.

8/17/2007 9:13:01 AM

and alumni

which includes Roy, so LET'S GET EM!!1

8/17/2007 9:39:19 AM

if he left, they would just bring in another high profile coach and there would not be much drop off in play.

8/17/2007 10:07:15 AM

so you're saying we need to go after the players

great idea! LET'S GET EM!!1

8/17/2007 10:15:31 AM