*yawn* Awake for the day...

[azurelunatic]

Was smart this morning and stuffed the little blue/grey pillow into my backpack and brought along Tam Lin (fantasy, Dean) and managed to somehow zombie through lab and class. After class, I crashed on the couch outside with the book, and did get a bit of a nap. Yay, foresight and pillow.

During a break in the lab, I skittered into the ladies' room, and was shocked at how dead I appeared. It's moments like that which make cosmetics more of a necessity. Lipstick made me have a semblance of life; dead-white lips on someone who's generally got more color are scary.

I also had to use the *#%$*#@ eardrops, which was the whole reason for the retreat to the ladies' room in the first place. You see, I have an ongoing battle with Swimmer's Ear, which attacks for what I believe is no reason whatsoever, except that I'm more stressed than the usual. The first battle was back in 1996, in July. (That Idiot, anyone?) Assorted other attacks have followed (BJ, California, winter break 2000/01) and other things here and there. Sometimes they're associated with damage to/water in ear, sometimes not -- and there are plenty of time that my ears get damaged or have water in them, and it doesn't show up.

But if I put the eardrops in at the first sign of a problem, I'm absolutely fine. If I let it go, I've had a full-on attack that made it impossible for me to chew.

But I'm awake, and alive, now. reichiere remembered to bring the Tim Tams, yay! So I shall be discovering what it is all about.

Comments

[boojum.livejournal.com]

I think a number of people have characteristic physiological weaknesses which appear in response to psychological, as well as the normal physiological, stressors. I get cold/flu things (It's a very specific thing, but I can't tell what it technically is.), a friend of mine got bowel problems, you get swimmer's ear, and so forth.

[azurelunatic]

Of all the things I could get, I suppose I'd better be glad that it's something I can take care of immediately with a little bottle of stuff I can keep in my purse. Five minutes of medicated eardrops in ear, and I'm all better.

It could be much, much worse.