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Week of Pain
Mar. 25th, 2010 09:08 pmSo this week has not been one of the most pleasant weeks I've had recently. Woke up Monday morning with a bad headache and soon realised it was actually mostly a really bad ear ache. You know that painful change of pressure feeling you get just before your ear pops, say for example when travelling via plane. Well I've been experiencing that non-stop since Monday morning, with the pain varying from irritating all the way up to hot needles in ear canal (or at least what I imagine that might feel like). It's actually left the area around my ear sore to the extent that eating has frequently been a painful exercise. Doctor hasn't been any help, so have been taking decongestants since yesterday in an effort to clear the eustachian tube and make the pain go away.
As a result I've not been in work all week. There's a limit to how much pain I can ignore and still be productive, and I've been finding the pain has been keeping me awake for most of the night and I've not been in much of state to try and get up for work even if I wanted to try and work through the pain. As I've been home and Kitacon is coming up this weekend I've been distracting myself by attempting to get a costume made for it in time, one of a pair I've been working with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
purplegirl23 to make. A lot of the time the distraction has been of the form of accidental needle to finger pain taking my mind off my ear temporarily, but while we've made good progress we're in the middle of a last minute dash to get it done.
Given a choice between having been well and in work, or home and cosplaying in pain I'd really rather have been well and in work, but at least this way I might actually be cosplaying at this con (and I can get back to getting the decorating finished over Easter).
In other non pain related news I still don't have my car. The issue ended up getting escalated to the UK regional manager for Citroen, and while it is now sorted the car won't be delivered to Bath till next week. I'm also getting slightly more than I paid for in the form of a bluetooth/USB upgrade to the radio. That plus the fact the dealer is providing me with a hire car from tomorrow till it arrives actually makes for a better overall discount than I thought I was getting. Again though would rather have just had my new car.
As a result I've not been in work all week. There's a limit to how much pain I can ignore and still be productive, and I've been finding the pain has been keeping me awake for most of the night and I've not been in much of state to try and get up for work even if I wanted to try and work through the pain. As I've been home and Kitacon is coming up this weekend I've been distracting myself by attempting to get a costume made for it in time, one of a pair I've been working with
purplegirl23 to make. A lot of the time the distraction has been of the form of accidental needle to finger pain taking my mind off my ear temporarily, but while we've made good progress we're in the middle of a last minute dash to get it done.Given a choice between having been well and in work, or home and cosplaying in pain I'd really rather have been well and in work, but at least this way I might actually be cosplaying at this con (and I can get back to getting the decorating finished over Easter).
In other non pain related news I still don't have my car. The issue ended up getting escalated to the UK regional manager for Citroen, and while it is now sorted the car won't be delivered to Bath till next week. I'm also getting slightly more than I paid for in the form of a bluetooth/USB upgrade to the radio. That plus the fact the dealer is providing me with a hire car from tomorrow till it arrives actually makes for a better overall discount than I thought I was getting. Again though would rather have just had my new car.
