On the way to recovery.

Some of you know that over the last few weeks I have been suffering from some major hearing issues in my left ear and some other things going on. Well, when we were on vacation, I put my head under the water when I was swimming and ever since, felt as though I had water in my ears. I also felt like I was in an airplane because there was a TON of pressure on my ears and I couldn't hear as clear. It was very hard to live with. I tried everything I could think of to get the water out myself.

My family all has medical insurance except me. Its very rare that I ever get sick (besides colds), and we just thought it would be a way to save an extra $150/month. But now I really needed a doctor and I didn't have one. I decided to call my pediatrician and explained my situation to him, which he then told me to come in "free of charge" and he would check my ears.

He said I had an inner ear infection and gave me Amoxicillin. I took this for a week and had no change. I call him and he went ahead and prescribed me another ear medicine called Bactrim. Both of these medicines were free by the way, through Meijer's pharmacy. Well, Bactrim was a bad idea!! I got very sick that night. So I quit taking that.

Finally, I decided to call a regular family doctor to see if I could get a referal to go to an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor (ENT). I called some doctors around here to see if they were accepting new patients, but the ones that would take me wouldn't get me in for an appointment until the end of JULY. So my dad came to the rescue and talked with his family doctor and they got me in the very next day! Thank the Lord.

My mom met me in Auburn the next day to meet with my dad's doctor. He looked at my ears and immediately knew what the problem was. He said I had a very large wax buildup and I needed to get my ears flushed out. Finally, someone knew what was wrong. He then had the nurse come in and use a machine to spray gushing water into my ears until it caused the wax to come falling out. I can't tell you the difference in hearing I had. It was amazing. I still felt some vertigo, but he said that will go away in time. The crazy thing was, my ear problem had nothing to do with swimming.

That was last Tuesday that I had the issue taken care of. I am still not 100 percent, but so much better than I was. My ears are pretty much good now. I just have to take it easy for a while.

Anyways, I guess I wanted to talk about what I have been going through to give a reason as to why I haven't been blogging as much.

Tomorrow Nik and I will celebrate our sixth anniversary!! Barb and Eric are going to treat us to a Tincaps game. My mom is going to join us and my dad is going to take the kids around and play games at the ball park. They have a lot of stuff for little kids to do.

I hope to get some good pictures at the game tomorrow.