Happy New Year to all of you , my dear and loving blog family! The best is yet to be! May we all enjoy the new adventures this year has for us...
So far, this new year has given me some adventures I'm not enjoying too much! I came down with a bad head cold on Tuesday night while I was still up in the Winter Wonderland of Michigan. On Wednesday, Elise and I flew home. She went to Mobile and I returned to Houston. It was the most anguished flight I have ever taken...not because of pilot error or poor weather conditions...it was because of my head, which felt like it was about to explode at any moment.
I really thought my ears would "pop" soon and give me some sweet relief, but that NEVER happened! On Thursday Bill took me to a clinic, because my doctor was out of town. They loaded me up with meds and I spent all Thursday and Friday in a recliner, waiting for the horrible ear congestion to go away. NOTHING. ZIP. NADA!
I only slept two hours, tried to entertain myself quietly (which, at this point means no TV because even at the highest volume level, I hear very little).
By 9:30 this morning the pain is too much. I feel like I have a baby in each ear canal that needs to get out SOON!!! Poor Bill drives me to another clinic, where we find out the wait will be at least two hours. TWO HOURS!!???? Can't they see I'm ready to deliver at any second???? What's wrong with these people???
We then travel to the emergency room, which is remarkably (and thankfully!) quiet. They escort me to a room, Draw blood, give me morphine (YES!!), do chest x-rays, a CAT scan, and tell me I am one sick puppy. The ears are horribly infected but the infection has not entered to some bone (?), so that's a good thing, they tell me. I'm given MORE drugs, and sent home.
We get home around 3:30, and I spent the rest of the day in the recliner, in pain, just trying to remain calm and stoic. But ask Bill...I've failed in both areas.
I now have new found respect for Helen Keller, and, frankly, anyone who is deaf. Being deaf is no fun. Not hearing plus having these two huge 15 pound babies stuck in my ear canals is even worse.
I was going to write about trees, but I'm in too much discomfort. Maybe tomorrow...
2 comments:
Wow baby sister! I didn't know that you got soooo bad! Mom told me that you had trouble with your hearing after the plane trip but that must have been just awful!! If you read the devotional Mom gave us for the new year for yesterday it was titled to RELAX in GOD'S HEALING PRESENCE He equips us to face whatever the day brings!! That sure is a comfort!! Psalm 105:4 Look to the Lord for His strength, (we sure can't do it on our own!!)I'm praying that you will feel much better very very soon! Love you , miss you, can't wait to kiss you! Nancy
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