If I ever had one, I should have nary a dark eye circle now.
I mentioned that I have an ear infection, and that I went in to the walk-in clinic to get some antibiotics. What I hadn’t mentioned is that for the first time in my 30-year history of ear infections every second month, I have never gotten dizzy from it. Except this time. By the end of the day, I’m nauseous from the vertigo and I end up teaching my last class of the day sitting down (which isn’t normal – usually I’m prowling through the classroom). Today I was having a meeting at lunchtime with my homeroom trying thinking up ways to raise money to send to the Red Cross for relief in Haiti, and I had to close my eyes to try and stop the room from spinning. It was crazy.
Yesterday when I got home from work I made it as far as 5h30 before I had to lay on the sofa. Rob went out to check the mail at some point before 6h30 and by the time he got back I was asleep. He sent me up to bed at around 10h, and I slept until 5h45 this morning. Well-rested, what?
I’ve been mostly okay today, a little, but less, dizzy. And it’s the weekend now so I can loll about. I think that by the time my 10 days of antibiotics are done, I’ll be fine. And I just have to think of the dizziness as a midway ride. It’s better than the Tilt-a-Whirl. A neverending, maniacal Tilt-a-Whirl.