Weds night Im doing food prep to host 20+ people for Thanksgiving at my house when I get pain in my ear. Ive had outer ear infections before and they are BAD! The pain is unbearable. So of course I wake up thanksgiving morning after a rocky night of sleep (or no sleep) to find a full blown ear infection. Did all I could to entertain guests while taking advil and holding a wet cloth to my ear all day long. By thursday night I was in tears and convinced my BF to not go to ER but got me stronger pain killers a nurse friend of mine had. They did nothing and I kept getting worse.
Friday I was supposed to shop for black friday but there was NO WAY! The pain was soooo bad! Finally this morning after the 3rd night of no sleep, I got up at 6am at my wits end. I could not stop crying the pain was THAT bad. I finally told BF I would go the ER or walk in clinic, wherever, just need to get rid of the pain. So we went to the ER. I'm ALL infected!
So now I am on an antibiotic, ear drops and alternating advil and pecocet pain killer treatment every 2 hours to control the pain.
Thankfully I am finally not in pain anymore, although I am still all clogged up and need to take the meds to get rid of the pain, but at least I'm more comfortable. So this infection is extreme Otitis externa (or swimmer's ear). I haven't swam since like Sept.
MY whole weekend was shot. Done nothing but cry, med up, sleep, cry, med up, sleep.
I hope everyone else had a nice Thanksgiving and got some GREAT sales for Black Friday! On a nicer note, my 2 furry boys have not left my side all 3 days for almost nothing. They are so loving and concerned for their Mom. Too cute!