I've Been a Mess

So, peep this:

A little over a day after I wrote my previous entry, I'm standing on line waiting to place my order for a nutritious lunch. As I'm waiting, I feel a bit of pressure in my right ear, as if some water had slipped in. So I reacted like anyone else would--I stuck in my index finger and wiggled it around. No dice.

When I returned to my desk, I browsed over to WebMd, which confirmed what I was already beginning to suspect: I was showing the early signs of an ear infection. By the time that evening rolled around, it was becoming quite distracting, but nothing too debilitating.

That is, until I woke up on Sunday feeling like I hadn't slept at all. Of course, we had a family function to attend and we didn't get home until evening. I still didn't feel great on Monday, so I decided to stay home. After some "discussion" with MLW, I recognized that it might be a good idea to see a doctor. I already had a scheduled appointment for a full physical, but when I called to move it up I was told that there was a slot later that day. So MLW drove me over.

The doc took a look into the affected ear and declared that it was no wonder I felt stopped up--my canal was completely blocked with wax. Then he proceeded to use a turkey-baster-sized syringe to squirt warm water in my ear. Out came a chunk of ear wax about the size of one of my fingernails. Then he looked into the ear and confirmed that, yes indeed, I had a middle ear infection. Joy!

Armed with some ear drops (which, coincidentally, are in a container the same size as the eye drops I needed for my pink eye--hate to dose myself with the wrong one!), I set back home with MLW and the mini-BG to what I hoped would be the beginning of the road of recovery.

That was last week. I'm just now really starting to feel as if I might be close to symptom free.

With my infection dropping down in the list of maladies my body needed to deal with, my allergies were able to resume their usual place as the only thing I don't like about the fall.

So, give or take a few days, I've not really felt all that well for about a month. Of course, getting more sleep would probably help--something, in fact, that I should be doing right about now.

'Night all.