float_on_alright | Earache and Whining (Reply)

I did not sleep well last night. Ugh, I so tired. It’s nearly every day that I go to bed well past any reasonable hour for bedtime, but when I do go to sleep, I sleep hard. It takes a lot to wake me up most mornings. But last night I just struggled. I tossed and turned and had weird dreams and everything was just not fun and it’s left me feeling foggy and confused. It’s been nearly impossible for me to be productive today. On top of that I have an awful earache that’s just really bugging me. It’s been going on and off for a couple of weeks but it would leave long enough for me to think it was clearing up. Plus it wasn’t “that bad” until now. Now it’s really uncomfortable and frustrating. I’m going to Urgent Care here in a bit. I have “an appointment” or a “place in line” saved for a little after midnight and they are supposed to text me about 30 minutes beforehand as a reminder, but I’ll likely head over there in a little bit. I don’t want to miss out if someone cancels an appointment or something else happens so that they would be able to see me a little earlier. I’m planning to take my book. I’ve got a good one that I haven’t gotten very far with because of just life stuff in general or being too tired by the time I did have time to do anything but like, pet the dog and watch episodes of Grimm I’ve already seen on Amazon Prime. Even reading and investing in the story just seemed “too hard,” lol, which is really saying something for me!

With this background earache thing happening, I’m pretty sure I haven’t been able to concentrate as well. The pain sort of radiates into my jaw and tooth as well. At least I think it’s the ear into the tooth, jaw, and throat. I guess it could be the other way round, but after the issues I had with my tooth in February, the dentist did an X-Ray to check on my tooth and couldn’t see anything wrong so my guess is that whatever it is that’s causing the pressure in my ear is just pressing on something else too that’s causing me all this throat/tooth/jaw shenanigans. Hopefully the urgent care people will be able to figure it out. I really hope they can get me in a little earlier. I get to sleep in a bit tomorrow since it’s Tuesday and I don’t have to be there until 11, but that still means leaving my house by 10 and since I didn’t sleep for shit last night, I really need a good night's’ sleep tonight.

I really want to take some pain meds to ease the pain, but I’d want to take ibuprofen since I feel like that would have the best chance of calming whatever is happening since I think there is some sort of swelling/inflammation happening, but I feel like if the drug does it’s job, that the peeps at the doctor’s office won’t have as good a picture of what’s happening. Maybe that’s not how all this works, but I also feel like I can’t take that chance. Uh, frack it. I’m just going to get myself together and head over there. I’d rather be there than waiting around here unable to get settled because I feel like I could miss out on a chance to see someone earlier if I was there. Wish me luck.