Ears are weird things, sometimes
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life – Samuel Butler
I don’t often get colds, my immune system seems to be quite good at fighting them off most of the time. Even when it fails to do so everything’s usually over with within 24 hours and I’m back to full strength.
However, whatever dread plague I picked up before Christmas has been determined to lay me low for the entire holiday.
The general feelings of crappiness and overabundance of phlegm are mostly over, however I’m suffering from a side-effect that’s both bothersome and strange.
My right Eustachian tube is blocked, and nothing I do will clear it. The one major attempt to clear it by holding my nose and blowing hard resulted in the sound like a rifle going off and the room spinning like the barn in The Wizard of Oz for a few minutes. Subsequent attempts merely make noises like a blocked drain – my hearing is still somewhat impaired but I do get to hear myself breathing, which is reassuring I suppose.
So, on a slightly lop-sided note, happy new year 2007, may your various tubes remain un-gunged.
January 1st, 2007