PITY PITY PLEASE

In addition to having the flu, I also have a pretty bad ear infection. It actually popped my ear drum. I didn't realize I had an ear infection because I thought the stuffiness and fever was just because I was sick. I thought I might have an ear infection when I started getting some intense pain in my ear so I planned to go to the student health clinic yesterday after my lab. I got about half way through my lab when my ear started to bleed and leak pus. At that point I knew I had an ear infection so I left my lab and went to the clinic on campus. They weren't taking anymore walkin's because they were to busy, so I had to wait for the bus with a leaking ear for 20 minutes then ride the bus for twenty minutes, this whole time almost in tears. When I got home I took the biggest Motrin money could buy, and crawled into the fetal position and cried. After about 30min the drug was kicking in so I got up and drove to the doctor, still leaking. The doctor I saw was really good until he actually checked my ear. He looked into the pussy ear with the light thing and then into the good ear... without wiping off the ear piece. He should have checked the good ear first and then the bad ear so that he didn't transfer the infection. Turns out that my ear drum had actually ruptured. Ouch!

Here are some questions you can ask yourself if you think you might have an ear infection:
Do I feel like I am on a perpetual airplane takeoff/landing?
Do I hear any of the following sounds inside my head: fireworks, bombs, tuning a radio, moving furniture across carpet?
Is my ear bleeding? pussing?
Am I having a hard time keeping my balance while walking?

Hope these help.

In other news, I went to the grocery store this morning since I didn't go to school. It was an interesting trip since it rained and froze, and most of the walk to the grocery store involves inclines or declines. I had to revert to crawling at one point. Good times.