(Not so) Short summary of sickness

I have not been this sick in a very very long time......a raptured eardrum(can u beat it!), fever, acute sinusitis, throat infection....what not! Such a eeky condition. Seems like it will stay this way for sometime longer, it's already been more than a week now. I have never in my life taken so many medicines, and it has been prescribed for 11 long days, with 7 days of high dose antibiotics. Doc asked me to eat well....I have lost my sense of smell since about last 6 days, everything tastes bitter, I could as well eat a pair of leather shoes and not even know! Eat well...huh! To top that, I was to give some blood samples last evening, a proper vein couldn't be found(I have this problem, but never takes this long), it took the nurse more than 10 minutes to draw blood from an appropriate vein. What's wrong with me! Now I have to see a ENT specialist too, tomorrow. Hope I don't go deaf in one ear...ha ha, I am now though. Read up in the internet...it takes about 2 weeks for a new eardrum to grow back....2 weeks of deafness...cool! One good thing about this entire episode, hubby is at home on leave taking care of me:).

My doctor deserves a mention here. After taking one look at my ear all he could say at first was OH!. Then he asked me how bad the pain was, I said terrible, ha asked me why I didn't call him when I was in so much of pain, I replied because it was in the middle of the night, and then he said the sweetest thing, he said "sometimes you should exercise your liberty to disturb me, the doctor, at the middle of the night, that's my job". We were very touched by this gesture, this statement seems so special and surprising because we in general have lost faith in the goodness of people. Such people help us restore faith in the human species.


An afterthought A couple of weeks back when cutie was not well, at a few desperate moments I did ask God to transfer all her ailments and pains to me. I was reading, ear infection and rapture of eardrum is usually common in children between ages 2-7, adults are not that prone. So could it be so? Could it be so that God really listened to my prayers. May it be so, may it be so that this quota of sickness gets covered by me, and never touch cutie.

Mush feed of the day....listening with one ear!
Dire Straits - So Far Away


So Far Away-Dire Straits-Lyrics
Here I am again in this mean old town
And you're so far away from me
And where are you when the sun goes down
You're so far away from me

So far away from me
So far I just cant see
So far away from me
You're so far away from me

I'm tired of being in love and being all alone
When you're so far away from me
I'm tired of making out on the telephone
And you're so far away from me

So far away from me
So far I just can't see
So far away from me
You're so far away from me

I get so tired when I have to explain
When you're so far away from me
See you been in the sun and Ive been in the rain
And you're so far away from me

So far away from me
So far I just cant see
So far away from me
You're so far away from me