August 30, 2006 :: An Icepick Through the Ear Sounds Good....
If you're looking for an update about the house, sorry. Nope, this is an update about me. If I start to babble or use nonsensical words, I have an excuse - and its' name is Vicodin.
So, I was driving to work last night. Not something I really wanted to do, as I've been off for the past 4 or 5 days with a nasty ear infection. How long have I had this ear infection? Erm.... since late May? Yeah, yeah...I know. This is the life of a person without health care. Anyway, I was driving to work. The farther I went, the more pain I was getting. By the time I got to Plainfield, I was in agony. The left side of my face was numb, my ear felt like it was going to explode from the pressure, my head was pounding, and my vision was getting kinda blurry.
So, I stopped at the "Hendricks County Immediate Care" place across the street from where I turn to go to work. Uh huh. It's open from 8am-8pm. Huh? It's a hospital-sized building, has the words "Immediate Care" on it, and it freaking CLOSES? So, I drove on to work. Got in the parking lot and called my team leader on the cell phone. Told him I was there, but I wasn't coming in. Told him I was on my way to the hospital. He said "righto" and said he'd see me when I came back to work.
So, I left Plainfield and drove to Danville. Drove past the hospital, since I had no idea where it was. Called Mom, got directions to the hospital, and drove into the lot and parked. By this time, I was seriously contemplating the joys of driving an icepick through my eardrum. I envisioned a fountain of blood and gross stuff spewing forth and relieving all of that pressure. Yes. Seriously.
So I go into the hospital (which is a VERY nice hospital, by the way...much better than the one here in Greencastle.) fill out a tiny little form, and the lady directs to the "Quiet Room". Why the Quiet Room? Because it was apparently obvious that my head was about to explode, and the hospital's other patient at that time was a cholicy baby. I don't like screaming babies on my best day, let alone when my head is nearing imminent explosion.
Got weighed, BP checked, admonished for my BP being frighteningly high (162/120), put in a room, and sat down. I fell asleep. Nurse came in, looked at my ears, gasped, and hurried out of the room. I fell back asleep. Doctor came in, looked in my ears, said "jesus!", and scribbled on a pad. He told me that I had the worst ear infection without perforation that he had ever seen. If you're going to do something, do it well, eh? He hurried over to the cholicy baby across the hall, and I fell asleep again.
A couple of mintutes later, the nurse came back in. She put some ice cold drops in my ears (Neomycin/Polymyxin B), and left. I fell back asleep. She came back after about 15 minutes, took my BP again, and handed me some prescriptions and wished me luck. So, I wandered around for a few minutes before someone showed me which one of the Exit signs to believe. (Seriously....Every possible direction was a potential exit according to the signs.)
Drove home, walked in, handed Mom (who was here waiting on me) the prescriptions, walked into the bedroom and passed out on the bed, fully clothed. I woke up 7 hours later. Another 2 hours and Mom was here with the drugs. I popped a Ciprofloxacin and a Vicodin and went back to bed. I can't even remember if I slept. I don't think so. I ended up in the living room cleaning and sorting. One good thing about Vicodin....I didn't give a crap about anything. I threw away almost everything I pulled out of the storage tubs. That's a good way to declutter, eh?
Lastly, I talked to my gorgeous fiance for a while....ok, 4 hours....and then started working on this blog entry. Which brings us now to the announcements.
First Announcement: Unknown to me, since I've been busy and negligent, the forum here hasn't been working since the server move back in July. Oops. It's fixed now.
Second announcement: Starting with the last entry, I will be adding a "comments" link to the bottom of each blog post. All this is, is a link to the message board. When I post a new entry, I will also post a topic on the message board. The "comments" link will take you to that post. You DO have to be registered to post comments/topics/replies. This is to prevent all of those vile spam posts you frequently see elsewhere.
After you've posted a comment, why not browse the rest of the board and post a "Howdy" in the appropriate forum, or list something for sale, or ask a question? I think our forum is one of the best kept secrets. lol
That's it for today. My bed is calling to me, and the Vicodin is answering.
