Sick Day!

So I have been very under the weather this week and still not 100% but have started to get some strength back! On Tuesday morning I woke and felt a Little yucky but went to work anyway... I was scheduled that day for my first spine case which was set to take about 9 hours! Not super excited about standing still for that long knowing the way I felt I pushed through and started the case. Somewhere around 10 am I thought I should eat lunch because I knew I still had a ways to go but thought maybe food would make me better... NOPE! Wrong idea, I went back into my case around 1045a and was still not so sure about the condition I was in. I'm sure the doctors never even noticed being involved in someones spine and all! But right at 1130 I silently asked my circulating nurse to get Neil, the Scrub I was with that day and he came in looked at me and I said " I need to be sick" tears pretty much welled up in my eyes. He turned around so quick to grab gown and gloves I think it made me dizzy! He walked through the doors from Scrubbing in and I stepped down from my stools and degloved and gowned and made a run for it... thank goodness no one was in the only bathroom we had directly in the OR or I was busted. Needless to say I made some horrible sounds that most of my friends and colleagues got to hear but all were understanding. My supervisor of course let me go home to where the real problems started.
So I layed around the house the rest of Tuesday and My mom took Cooper for the night because Chris sleeps during the day and works at night so I really could not keep Coop entertained at all. Wednesday I called out again from work and somewhere around 5pm I started getting really sharp pains in my left ear! Again my mom has Cooper! I tried to go to bed around 7pm thinking I could forget about it... Strike two, wrong again! I ended up disturbing the heck out of Chris' sleep who needed to be to work in a few hours and decided to drive myself to the ER at 11pm. Big surprise I had an ear infection pretty badly. They gave me some meds to "stop the pain" took my money and sent me on my way! Around 130a I got to bed and that day was over. I woke up Thursday and no difference except more vomiting and still in pain, still hurt like hell! The ER doc did say that " you never really understand your child's ear pain until you go through your own, I will never underestimate Coopers ear ache again! My poor child should never feel that!

So Thursday pretty much sucked just as bad as the rest of my days except now I'm stressed about the fact that I have NO hearing in that ear, so Friday morning I go to my PCP first thing and he is baffled at how bad my ear looks and how I tell him it feels. So he immediately made some calls to ENT in Tempe and made me an appointment that day because I would not make it till Monday like this. Chris had some work things to do and to pick up Cooper so I had my good friend Anacecilia take me to hold my hand... So we went and the doctor who said all the meds could eventually work but most of you know I am NOT a patient person at all, I have already suffered for too many days! SOOO I asked if he could lance it(cut inside my ear) and relieve the pressure. I work in OR we do this all the time to kids! I think he was a little surprised that I sorta demanded it from him because I was not gonna feels this bad anymore. So I signed some consents took a hearing test (which I did not completely pass) and we were ready. He made me tuck my hands under my bottom so I did not smack him by accident, good thing he did because that is what I might have done ! He "gently" yeah right, put some topical stuff in my ear to soften the blow of the on coming knife in my ear. He "deflated" the swollen vesicle and said there was a little blood and some discharge. YUCK! That was it we were done for now. Today is Sunday and to be very honest the pressure is gone but the ringing in my ear is still there and the deafness still lurks around... I'm not without an infection yet, but still taking some of the many meds I have that will make it go away... SOME DAY! Sorry you had to read all my craziness but I have been away from my computer for 5 days now and have lots to say!