Top 5 reasons why...

...You do not want an ear-infection

Sadly, I am writing this post from experience.
About a week ago I began to have a sore throat and a little fever.
After about a day though, my fever went away and I thought I was on the road to recovery.
This was just the beginning, I'm now realizing...

Friday night my ear began to feel a little strange, like there was some pressure,
Then it would become "plugged"- or whatever you want to call that feeling, ya know, the one you get on airplanes? So I began to get that "airplane" feeling and it wouldn't go away
Then it began to hurt.

I went to bed Friday night thinking it would be gone by morning.

I woke up at 4am crying from the pain.
I woke Brett and told him something needed to be done.
After I popped some asprin I was able to fall back asleep...
Saturday my pain was so un-bearable I went to the ER for a prescription of amoxicillin and ear drops.

Saturday after a painful nap and drugging myself with my newly found treasures, the pain began to leave. The pain left, but the "airplane" feeling did not.

So, what could be so wrong with having the "airplane" feeling you ask?? Well, Here begin my top 5 reasons why you don't want an each infection...

1. No sleep: When you have an ear-infection, you simply cannot sleep. No matter what side you sleep on you feel your ear drum pulsing in pain and it kills.
2. Fluids: Fluids leak out. That's all I'll say about that.
   
3. Underwater: My ear is now on the road to recovery, although now I would describe my left ear as being "underwater". I hear everything that is going on inside my body, it's weird. When I drink, I hear it go all the way through my body. Chewing is so loud inside my head. And when I shower it sounds like rain hitting a tin roof to me.
   
4. Deafness: If you are on the left side of me, and ask me something I will not hear you. This has been a problem lately. I think that I'm taking in half of what professors are saying and forget even trying to hear comments or questions that are made from the class. It's kind of a silent world for me right now.
5. You appear crazy: I cannot count the number of fake responses I've had to give these past few days. Someone will ask me something, and if it's the second or third time I've asked them to repeat already- I fake an answer. Then, depending on either the confused or satisfied look I see on their face, I know if what I said was relevant in any way to our conversation. Also, you hear weird things. Sometimes I will hear a noise that may just be a cell phone ringing, but because with my deafness I cannot tell what, where, or the real volume of it- it can sounds like an air-raid coming to attack. I've been on edge, to say the least.
   

I can't wait to get my hearing back!

I keep telling Brett that now I know what Helen Keller felt like. (ok, ok, maybe I don't know what she felt like, but can't I at least say I know a little of what she felt?)