I started feeling crappy on Friday.
It got increasingly worse until I exhibited all of these symptoms:
- Sneezing, coughing, runny nose
- Sore throat (like sandpaper in the throat)
- Bad ear ache (kept me up all night)
- Clogged up ear
- Laryngitis
- Tender facial glands
So, I saw the doc today. Check that. It saw the Nurse Practitioner, again. I hate that doctors are farming out most of their patients to people whom patients have no interest in seeing. But that's life in medicine, I suppose.
I was diagnosed with Sinusitis, but it feels more like an awful Ear Infection, but who am I to diagnose? Giving me the news of my condition (which I already knew was shitty), they sent me home with prescriptions for ear drops (for the pain) and Zpak (an antibiotic regimen).
Before leaving, however, a cute little aide stepped in and called me Ben Dover. Well, at least that's what it first sounded like with a completely clogged up ear. With a syringe in hand it became all too obvious she had actually said: "Bend over." Go figure.
[Ok, ok. I made up the last part of the story, but that's what a bored person does, lol. I did get a shot in the butt, however.]