From Facebook

Just to keep those of you on this forum thingy updated, here are some posts from my Facebook page:

Monday
I am having a good visit with my family out in CA, but I have been sick the whole time. I started out the trip thinking it was just a passing cold, which I attributed to our recent cold weather. However, when I landed in Phoenix, and again in Orange County, I thought my eardrums were going to explode. Everything sounded like I was with plugged ears off and on (mostly on). I sound funny, and am starting to get a bad cough. I was able to find another flight going out Thursday morning (I was supposed to fly home Tues) so hopefully I will be a little less congested by then. I have an appointment with my old family doctor in Hemet on Tues, so maybe he can hook me up with ear drops or something. I just worry about causing permanent damage to my ears! So, at the moment I am sniffling over my mother's computer. My sister, mom and I are going to hit the craft store, so that should make me feel somewhat better I'm sure... I'm really sorry about missing Weds night ladies!! I wish I could be there.

Tuesday
This sloshy feeling in my ears is NOT my brain liquifying, as some might imagine. I can tell you it is a freaky feeling tilting my head from one shoulder to the other and feeling fluid moving around in my ears, but nothing comes out! I went to see the doctor who validated my concerns about flying. He said the membrane in my ear that is suppose to look like a sail fluttering in the breeze, is concave, red and rigid. Hmmm. He concurred that if I had flown today, I would very likely have burst my eardrums. He likened it to ear trauma divers get from surfacing too fast. (I suppose ascending and descending 30,000 ft. three times in a day, with already swollen ear drums may have caused a leeeetle damage. So, in order to attempt Thursdays flight without incurring more pain and suffering, I was given a cortizone shot, Nazonex to take at night, Singulair at night, Allegra once a day. Then every 4 hours I am to take a double dose of Sudafed, and Ibuprofen. I hope I can keep it all straight. But it is encouraging to know that I was not just imagining things, and this was a serious problem.