and keep this game tied going to the bottom of the ninth

[musesfool]

I'm trying to decide if I am going into work tomorrow as scheduled, or if my ear is still enough of a problem to stay home. On the one hand, it definitely hurts less now than it did earlier. On the other hand it still hurts and I won't be able to do the drops during the working day, because even with lying on my side with the affected ear up for nearly forty minutes didn't prevent some leakage when I sat up. I don't know if I'm just completely missing the ear canal somehow, or if it's swollen enough in there that the drops just aren't making it all the way in, or some combination of the two, but it's annoying. On the other hand, not being able to hear out of my left ear meant that this morning's construction outside my bedroom window didn't wake me up. Small silver lining there, I guess. And it was still painful enough that I was like screw it and started the pills instead of waiting for tomorrow, because why am I going to sit around in pain longer than I have to? I don't know how people with chronic pain do it, honestly. I really don't.

Meh. I guess I'll see how I feel in the morning. I have the time and I know my bosses won't be upset because I don't feel well, but it's going to be awful regardless, since it's the first day back after a week out, whether I do it tomorrow or Wednesday.

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