April 14, 2003
Colds Suck
Sometimes I feel like my body is just trying to get in the way of the rest of me, like telling me that I should not be able to physically sense things as much as I would normally be able to do.Two weeks ago my good ear started to go downhill, as it tends to do every year or so, so I made an ear appointment which was last Monday. I was not hearing well out of that ear at all by the time I got in.
Turns an infection had progressed; not a big deal because they can just clean you up right in the office. He did so, my hearing returned. He had to use this vacuum cleaner thing in my left ear which was quite loud and had lots of airflow, so I got very dizzy. Also not a big deal since I've been through that countless times before (I've had bunches of ear surgeries in my past, so these things are nothing new), except that this time it made me feel pretty sick.
He let me sit there for a while... I was happy because my hearing was as good as it had been in months.
So the next day I come down with a massive cold.
I'm thinking it was probably either because the infection had blocked part of the infection from making its way up my eustachian tubes, so now that the infection was cleared up, then boom! Free pass to the throat! Cold city! That's where it started. The other theory is that clearing out the infection led the rest of my body to go through a major detox when it wasn't quite ready. Or simply that there were cold germs floating around at the ear doctor's.
So three days afterward my eustachian tubes close down again and I've had the auditory equivalent of tunnel vision since then.
Two weeks of not having my senses turned on and I'm sick of it. I want my senses back.