Know what’s fun? Taking pills. Taking lots and lots of pills, every day.

Okay not really. But I like to pretend that it is, since I find myself taking eight pills a day at the moment. Granted this is nowhere near the 18 a day I had to take at the high point of my rampant prednisone consumption, but it’s still a pain in the… throat.
Not dying or anything! I just have lots of capsules to swallow sometimes!
One is my much-lower-dose Tom Cruise Vitamin ™ . Two are folic acid. Two more are acid controllers. And then, three times a day, I have to take antibiotics for yet *another* ear infection.
I swear, it’s like this summer is the Summer of Bad Ears. I haven’t had any problems with my ears since I was about 14 or 15 (granted, before that I had problems with them Every Day of my Life) and now– boom. Two courses of antibiotics in two months. I had to go to Outpatients’ this last time, because the soonest I could get an appointment with my family doctor was two weeks from now (by the way, I’m kind of curious as to why, when I went in for a problem with my ear, did they have to check my oxygen levels with a pulse oximeter???). Luckily we didn’t have to wait around very long, and the doctor just looked in, said “Hey, adults don’t usually have this type of ear problem, this isn’t swimmer’s ear, this is something kids outgrow by the time they’re seven”. He also said “Ew, gross”, but I wasn’t going to mention that.
So. I *do* have a hole in my eardrum. I am also down about 75% of my hearing in my right ear. But damn, homey, I can hear like a son of a bitch with my left one, so don’t try to put anything past me!