Say what?

I've had a minor sore throat for a few days and had been sneezing a bit, so I thought I might be getting a cold. Late yesterday morning, my right ear felt plugged up and I'd hear a tone with every sound. Very weird. Then in the afternoon, I picked up the phone to make a call and there was no dial tone, or so I thought. I put the phone up to my left ear and viola! dial tone. Unfortunately, I couldn't hear a thing out of my right ear. Nada. And I was a little dizzy. I figured it was an ear infection and called the doctor's office around 2:30 and left a message, but by 6:30 I still hadn't heard back so I called the answering service and the on-call doc responded. She apologized that no one got back to me. She felt I should go to a walk-in clinic or ER. I called Linda and we discovered there were no clinics open. I thought they were open 24/7. Shows you what I know! So I drove to DeLand to my bro's house; their ER is much more efficient than the one closest to me. Linda came with me and we were in and out of there very quickly. I was amazed! I have a middle ear infection, so now I'm stocked with amoxicillin and prednisolone. I used to get ear infections way back when and they were always miserable, but this isn't nearly as bad, thank God.

So that was just a very long-winded way to say, "Hey! I've got an ear infection!" Go ahead, you're now permitted to talk amongst yourselves.