Druggy

I’m being pumped with steroids.

And I’m not even participating in competitive sports. No Commonwealth Games 2006 or Winter Olypmics for me. I’m on a second round of antibiotics and a prescription of steroids all because of a leaky ear.

It’s a long story, so I shall not divulge the gory facts save for the bit that my right ear is infected and the middle ear is spewing discharge when I sleep. It started after my first course of antibiotics ran out on Friday. By Saturday my ear started getting clogged up. Right in the middle of a friend’s wedding ceremony in church. Ever had your ear clog up on you before? It’s quite startling and disturbing really. Your hearing is fine, then gradually, you feel that your ear is closing up and that it’s filling up with liquid. Your breathing becomes louder (you can hear yourself much clearer) whilst the sounds around you seem to fade into the background. You feel as if there’s discharge creeping out and while you long to stick a tissue in your ear, you can’t very well do that in front of everyone. Especially not at church.

So I bore with it.

Saturday night I went to sleep with a wad of tissue in my ear. I had to change that wad twice in the night because it had gotten entirely soaked with discharge.

I dragged myself to the specialist today. He pronounced my ear infected (why didn’t he see it last Friday?). So it’s another course of antibiotics for me, plus he threw in some steroids for good measure.

Apparently ear infections of the kind that I’m experiencing are common to children (what does that say about my ear?). The 20 plus years that the T-tubes were in there didn’t give my Eustacian tubes very much chance to function on their own I suppose?

In short, I may have grown up, but my ears never saw fit to.

So now I’m on a daily dose of nasal spray (also steroid-laced) to help manage my acute rhinitis (medical speak for sinus) and hopefully after two months, the whole ENT thing with my body is more sorted out.

If not, gawd help me should I get the flu again.