Painful
It hurts when I swallow or when I clench my jaw. All I really want is a really long needle to jam into my ear and see if I can make it better. I have an ear infection. At least, I’m pretty sure its an ear infection. I just tried to go to the emergency room here in Nome and it doesn’t appear they are open. What the hell is an emergency room for then?
I’m going to get up with the guys in the morning and see if I can get a lift or something. My ear is in so much pain. I need something. Its hard to concentrate if every time I swallow theres shooting pinpricks or if I twist my head the wrong direction theres inflaming happening.
Gawd, I hope this hospital isn’t so rural it can’t provide me at least a minor pain reliever (stronger than what the “grocery” store provides) until I get back to civilization.
Not a whole lot going on. Work continues… slowly. I didn’t have much use out at site, so I came back early (hence the beginning of this post). They have alot of snow removal going on because of the last few blizzards. It also looks like there might be a bit of rain on the way… wonderful.
So, I’m killing time while some cold meds try to dull my senses enough to sleep.
Ahhhhhh, poor you, nothing worse than being ill and in pain in Hicksville with only a vet and his medieval instruments of torture to relieve the pain with maybe a hammer and a bottle of home made moonshine as anesthetic. Good luck… :???: hope you are pain free soon.
Comment by Rick — January 31, 2008 @ 2:04 am
Well.. it turns out I didn’t realize you could walk down the ramp that the ambulance is usually at and get to a single room that’s known as the ER. And it turns out that I have an inflamed tonsil on my left side. So it was pushing against my ear parts and that’s what was causing most of my pain.
I got antibiotics and codeine… which is making me very sleepy at the moment. But, man, I feel sssooo much better.
Comment by lore — January 31, 2008 @ 5:15 am