diagnosis, again.

[juldea]

I have an outer ear infection, also known as "Swimmer's Ear," because it's often caused by water in the ear. I haven't been swimming in quite a while, so I don't know about that. Anyway.

I also had a 100.7 fever.

I got two flavors of eardrops; antibiotic (because oral antibiotics will not work right for this) and painkiller. Which is wimpy. I mean, I don't want to die anymore, but I'm still hurting a lot. :(

So... I don't see me going to the dress rehearsal tonight. Which means no show for me. I am, as you can imagine, not feeling at all happy about this. But what can I do? My body has revolted against me.

Sorry, everyone. I wish I could do it, too.

Comments

[tpau]

no show? *pout* and i was all lookignforwrd to it... and had almost convinced Teem to go...

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Me too.

[brewergnome.livejournal.com]

I had swimmer's ear! It sucks.

Oddly enouhg never when I was a swimmer or diver.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yeah... weird, isn't it? :P

[adalius.livejournal.com]

It sucks. had it. also had inner ear infections at the rate of about 4 a year from when i was born until i was 19 or so. As such my ear drums are scarred heavily. On the plus side, the scar tissue by some freak of nature happened to heal in a manner that tightened my ear drum so it picks up frequencies higher and lower than normal hearing. Not superhero far but farther than normal ranges. Yay me :D

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Huh. I wonder if that happened to me. I did get ear infections a lot when young, and I do have an unusually high range in my hearing. Of course, working around computers all day, that's something of a negative, as *everything* makes an audible whine...

Sorry about the show, juldea :-(

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Aha! I remember you telling me that once. Now I know why. Nifty.

[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Ouch! I've had an ear infection or two like that and yeah, OW, yeah, I hope it calms down and goes away soon.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Thanks. *hug*

[jicklet.livejournal.com]

ouch! that's rotten and no fun at all...

you can get them from baths/showers too.. I used to get swimmer's ear all the time (runs in my family).

Once it's cleared up.. if you ever think you get water caught in your ear after showering or something, try using water babies (available over the counter). You lie down with it in your ear for 5-10 minutes (a drop or two), and then switch sides for a couple minutes and all the water will drain out!

[juldea.livejournal.com]

thanks... I'll look for that.