"For her, around her, the room is spinning, never stable. It undulates, reforms, reshapes in a sensation akin to the dissonance one might feel stepping off a moving vessel onto a stable pier. It never stops: She feels this discombobulation every moment of every day. It took doctors years to figure out what caused the dizziness: mal de débarquement syndrome, a rare vestibular disorder marked by continual dizziness."
"In 2015, while Warner was biking in Portland, someone opened a car door directly in her path. She flipped over and landed hard, shattering her pelvis. In the years that followed, she battled dizziness and self-distrust, unclear what was happening to her and unable to fully describe the weirdness that was now her body, her world. But more was happening than just changes to her body. During these times, Warner was searching for her father."
Kimberly Warner endures continuous spatial disorientation caused by mal de débarquement syndrome, a rare vestibular condition that only eases during passive motion like car travel. A 2015 cycling collision shattered her pelvis and precipitated years of dizziness, uncertainty, and erosion of self-trust. Concurrently, she pursued answers about her biological father, who had conceived her in a one-night stand and later disappeared, while her mother remained married to the man Warner grew up calling father. Layered losses include an adolescent bereavement when her father died and the slow grief produced by chronic illness, travel, and shifting family identities.
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