Well I’m home sick this morning. Normally I wouldn’t call in sick for a sinus infection but this isn’t normal.

I feel like I can’t hear out of my left ear. I am wondering if my sinuses are blocked in a more permanent manner or something because nothing I do does any good. It just keeps getting worse and worse. There’s so much pressure behind my left ear it’s ridiculous. I’ve never felt anything like this before. It feels like my eardrum is just going to explode and gross crap is going to spill out my ear. Wouldn’t be implausible. I know a girl in junior high/high school that that happened to. But it’s also strange because the right side of my face is just fine. My throat doesn’t hurt anymore and my coughs, while painful, are rarer and while I have to blow my nose occasionally, I can breathe just fine. No fever, either.

So I don’t get it. I mean, I was fine! Last week, dealing with Elijah’s fevers, my sinus infection and what not cleared all up… for about two days. And now this, as of yesterday. We were heading out to eat last night and I could just feel the pressure building around my ear. Really surreal, actually.

So I’m home and for the next hour and a half, I’m alone. It’s kind of nice. Steve took Elijah to church without me. Of course, Elijah rolled out of bed announcing that he was going, he would have been mad not to go. But I probably won’t go to my class tomorrow morning. I’m gonna call the doctor first thing, I hope they can get me in fast before my head explodes. Of course, now I’m wondering if I should bother with our general practitioner at all or try to get into an ear, nose, throat doctor… or maybe I have to be referred to one? Who knows. All I know is that this may kill me before then.