So, I haven't mentioned my latest health 'experience' because I'm sick of even thinking about my health, and I can't imagine you're getting much pleasure from reading about it. Alas, this is just too stupid to not blog about it.

Soooooooooooooo...

About six weeks or so ago, my left jaw started hurting. I chalked it up to teeth grinding and ignored it. Every time I opened my mouth, I could hear an unnerving grinding noise and it hurt. I kept thinking that it'll go away eventually because everything always does, right?

Not to mention that I'm SICK.OF.DOCTORS.

It continually got worse to the point where I started to take my 'cocktail' of night time drugs (*enough to put down an elephant, I'm sure) at about 6pm just so I'd go to sleep and not feel it anymore. This was about a week ago. Two days ago, I went to clean my ears with a q-tip and you would have thought I'd shot a bullet in my ear because, well, just WOW. It hurt like hell. Not to mention that I had an unpleasant knot in front of my ear.

Oh, and I kept dreaming that people were either punching me in the head, my jaw was falling off, and other assorted 'it's apparent that even though I was asleep, I was still feeling it' dreams.

I decided then, that it was time to go see the doctor. I went to see her today and the nurse was checking my vitals.

Low blood pressure- CHECK
Low pulse- CHECK (I was 58 today!)
When she took my temp she had a surprised look on her face and so I said, "I know, I have a low temp too- let me guess, it's 96.7"

She said that no, it wasn't low, that I had a fever of 101.2.

Hmmmm- in 'normal' humans, that would equate to a fever of almost 103.

As soon as the doctor came in and checked my ears she said that I have a nasty ear infection (hence the fever). She said that I also have a case of TMJ (that was what the lump was- it's fluid and the grinding sound is inflammation) and she gave me exercises to do- complete with pictures of a lady with an 80's doo (mall bangs, dontcha know).

I told her that I was flying tomorrow and the idea that I have an ear infection FREAKS ME OUT. Can you even imagine how that would feel? I flew with a sinus infection once and I was pretty sure that my brains would blow out of my head.

So, she hooked me up with some Vicoden (yippee!) and antibiotics and told me to take Sudafed about an hour before the flight takes off.

I'm taking all my camera gear, so plan to have some great pictures when I get back. I'll probably upload pictures while I'm there because I'm bringing my tablet computer (something I *STILL* need to blog about).

Wish me luck that I'm not crying with the rest of the babies when the plane takes off.

*Cocktail of 100mg seroquel + 1mg klonipin + 1mg requip. Any one of the three would probably knock a normal person on their butt.