What Dana suggested. The warm heat helps. I used to get chronic ear infections and sometimes I really wished the eardrum would burst, it hurt so bad. There usually isn't much hearing loss, if any, from a single incidence of burst eardrum. I think it has to be really severe or chronic to get to that point. Doctors have put me on planes with the warning it might happen, "but it'll feel better afterwards. Just don't get water in that ear for a few days." Alrighty then!
OK, back to work.
but would warm water IN the ear work?
It sounds like it would feel better, but I wouldn't since she also has eardrops (and I don't know if they are for pain or an anti-b.) Also, I wouldn't want to introduce any more crap into the already irritated canal.
Hearses to be made from Priuses
A limousine company in Japan plans to make hearses out of Priuses. They'll sell for $80,000.
Cool!
Allyson, I get ear infections any time the season changes. Do you have the steroid/antibiotic drops or just AB drops? The steroid drops have cleared up excruciating pain within a day, but there is still dull pain. The AB drops do nothing until they start working, obviously.
Moist heat is your friend as well as advil.
What I actually came in here to say, however was that I took 2 Excedrin two hours ago because I thought it would work better on my headache, and now I am completely manic from the caffeine and I still have the headache. I get this way after novacaine, too-- I am talking (and typing) a mile a minute, my eyes feel like they are going to pop out of my head, and I am breathing rapidly.
Please remind me never to take speed.
Awesome photo of a volcano eruption from space: [link]
Holy crap, that's amazing.
Allyson, I hope it's less hurty and you get some relief.
Thanks for the Anniversary wishes! For DH, I figured out the problem with our entertainment system and he has ESPN HD again. We'll need to replace the receiver but for now, we have cable again.
Awesome photo of a volcano eruption from space: [link]
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ION, this random thought just popped into my brain: Do you suppose anyone has ever tried to commit suicide by sticking their head in an electric oven?
Do you suppose anyone has ever tried to commit suicide by sticking their head in an electric oven?
You've met the Internet, haven't you?