INFECTION!
BLARG!
As if the neck injury last Thursday wasn’t bad enough. Suddenly Saturday morning, my right helix piercing started acting up, to where by the end of the day was doing it’s horribly red, swollen, and throbbing to heart-beat type of owwie.
Not fun.
Started popping pills (Advil mostly) to try & reduce swelling… and reduce the throbbyness Saturday night.
Tried to not sleep on said ear Saturday….
Sunday it was generally just red & swollen, not so much with the throbbing. But should I happen to hit it (like me being pouty & putting my head on someone’s shoulder) OWWWW. I’m sure the people standing around Dundas Square were both amused and confused by my antics. What was kind of fun though, was the cold air made the piercing feel good. The res of me was freezing cold, but my ear was a very comfortable temperature. Not sure how good that is overall though…
Finally remembered that I have a gigantic tube of sea salt at home. Ran home to fill a bowl with salt & hot water (yes, tap water, not distilled, whatever it’s the same thing to me.) Laying around on my bed with my ear in a bowl of water on top of a towel… man I haven’t done that in a long time.
I don’t miss it.
Will continue for the next few days. Hoping to pick up some PunkMedics Simple care Spray soon as well because I don’t have ear bowls at work or in the car. And while I realize that I can get away with one bottle, I’ll probably be lazy, and buy three. One for at work, one for at home and one in the car.
This needs to go away. My neck doesn’t allow me to hold the phone on my left ear. And an angry piercing won’t let me hold the phone on my right ear.
Did I mention I’m on the phone a lot at work?
