Why little things make a BIG impression...

It's Sunday night and I have a horrible earache. I thought maybe a spidey had jumped into my ear by mistake--like it wouldn't know the difference between my gaping mouth with the drool and my little pink ear with the small opening!--but whatever the cause, I've been whining since Thursday night when the ear achticus strucketh. I finally went to an urgent care facility yesterday afternoon where a doctor proved that masochism is alive and well in this country--as she poked her ear look into thingy around inside my very painful outer ear canal (which was closed for business). She said she hadn't seen such a swollen canal in a very long time. I just love being a "superlative". I'm soon off to bed where I'll put 10 drops into my totally closed ear and will experience about 2 1/2 hours of sheer, torturous pain as the medicine slowly (and I do mean excruciatingly slowly) drizzles its way down my ear canal which burns like a house on fire. I never thought pain medication was a great thing, but I have converted. Unfortunately, I only have Advil, so my pain takes a long time to subside. I've been thinking of hunting down the pain medication given to my Mom last year at this time and taking that, but it would probably just make me more of a lame-brained almost-senior-citizen than I already am. I'm trying not to embarrass my family, my friends or myself, so I think I'll just stick to Advil and hope that it doesn't take the full seven days of ear drops to clear up... My ear is such a little thing, but it certainly can shout out when it wants to. I vow now to never understimate the power of little things and the impressions they can make in our lives (or at least in our ear canals)!