One Week

I'm tempted to start singing "Season of Love" from RENT. How do you measure???
So it's been a week since my visit to the ER. Here's the whole story and it's a little gross in parts...
A month ago, almost exactly to day October 20th I made an appointment to see my doctor. My ear did not feel like and there was some weird crust that had started to take up residence in it as well. Well the substitute doc assured me I was okay since "I didn't even have a fever etc" and sent me on my way. Yes I am a mild hypochondriac, but I was SURE something was wrong with me.
Fast forward to last Friday. I had seriously been going to bed by 9 the entire week because I just didn't feel good. And on Friday weird crusty ear returned! It became increasingly more difficult to hear and I figured I was just getting a cold. Saturday morning I was hanging out with my friend Simi and my ear was literally throbbing with odd stabbing pains. I was pretty sluggish all day and decided to go over to my moms to have her check out the ear. All the while I was in moderate pain. My mom was unable to make heads or tails of the situation because my ear was pretty swollen and also it was very PAINFUL and unable to stand even the slightest touch.
I slept about 2 hours on Saturday night and Sunday was left with no choice but to hit up the ER.
Of course it's lame in there not to mention gross even at a nice suburban hospital and I was pretty low on the totem pole until I almost passed out in the room they put me in.
The doctor confirmed I had an inner AND outer ear infection as well as a perforated eardrum. Nice...not really. Antibiotics, painkillers and cold medicine became the order of the day.
However - the pain did not go away - until Tuesday. Well this is when my eardrum actually burst. Yes burst and that's why the pain stopped. So fast forward to Sunday where I feel okay since sleeping no less than 12 hours a night for the last week. Oh and cleaning the gross aftermath of the burst is also very fun! So if you're wondering why i've been m.i.a. the last few days, no you know...feel bad for me yet???