Clear as a bell
About a week before xmas, the children were unwell. It was clear it was a nasty flu, and that Elise had started to suffer as well. I didn’t give it that much tought (after all, since the children started to go to playgroups and nursery, we’ve had all sorts), except that when I started to get ill myself, I noticed two things: it was the most virulent, exhausting flu I’d had in many years (maybe since I was about Thomas’ age), and my hearing was going funny.
A few days later, I woke up with an ear infection. It was very painful for a couple of days, and then it got to a level of pain that made me curl up in bed and whimper. I managed to drag myself to the doctor’s, get prescribed poxy weak antibiotic (amoxicillin without clavulanic acid), and proceeded to suffer for a whole 7 days of dizziness, weird phasing effects in my hearing, strange whistles, more excruciating pain, etc.
I probably should have made more of a point to the doc’s on my first visit, that the pain was unbearable, but I’ve started to behave like all British patients in that I’d rather not complain (that would be embarrassing). Anyway, had to go back to quack and get co-amoxyclav (proper antibiotic), and I’m still unable to hear anything at all from my left ear.
Upshot: I haven’t really listened to or made any music since about the first/second week of December, which is the longest hiatus since about a year and a half…I’m hoping this’ll give me a fresh ear (get it?) when I get back to it. Already, trying to listening to some bits I’d made before December this morning felt like going back years.
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