This is more or less cross-posted from my Morrowind fanfic journal:
For the past several months I've been dealing with an unpleasant illness known as Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. If you've never heard of it and look it up, believe me when I say that it feels much worse than it sounds. Along with the normal ETD symptoms, I had a bad reaction to the prescription nasal sprays that I was using. Not only did I experience the "rebound" effect (which means that the symptoms faded a little, then came back stronger than ever), but the medicine severely dried out my eyes to the point that I have been unable to do much of anything. I have not worked on a painting for my wildlife art shops in months. I've been unable to look at a computer screen for more than a few seconds. When "watching" a movie I've had to sit with my eyes closed and just listen to it. These past months have been absolutely miserable as eustachian tube dysfunction made me feel as though as I were a prisoner in my body.
This past week my doctor prescribed a round of antibiotics that so far seem to be doing the trick (this is day four out of ten days). My right eye feels normal. My left eye still feels a little dry, but no longer feels as though someone is stabbing my eye-socket with a sharp object.
I'm still having some issues in my middle ear, but we're leaving for our annual trip to the mountains in a couple of weeks and I'm hoping that the thin mountain air will finish the job of clearing up my sinuses and eustachian tubes.
Before leaving, I'll try to get as many chapters of my Morrowind fic edited with their new Dreamwidth image links and re-posted at![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lady_morningstar as I can before leaving for Yellowstone in about two weeks.
And hopefully I can go back to writing about LOTRO and other things that spark my interest in this blog.
For the past several months I've been dealing with an unpleasant illness known as Eustachian Tube Dysfunction. If you've never heard of it and look it up, believe me when I say that it feels much worse than it sounds. Along with the normal ETD symptoms, I had a bad reaction to the prescription nasal sprays that I was using. Not only did I experience the "rebound" effect (which means that the symptoms faded a little, then came back stronger than ever), but the medicine severely dried out my eyes to the point that I have been unable to do much of anything. I have not worked on a painting for my wildlife art shops in months. I've been unable to look at a computer screen for more than a few seconds. When "watching" a movie I've had to sit with my eyes closed and just listen to it. These past months have been absolutely miserable as eustachian tube dysfunction made me feel as though as I were a prisoner in my body.
This past week my doctor prescribed a round of antibiotics that so far seem to be doing the trick (this is day four out of ten days). My right eye feels normal. My left eye still feels a little dry, but no longer feels as though someone is stabbing my eye-socket with a sharp object.
I'm still having some issues in my middle ear, but we're leaving for our annual trip to the mountains in a couple of weeks and I'm hoping that the thin mountain air will finish the job of clearing up my sinuses and eustachian tubes.
Before leaving, I'll try to get as many chapters of my Morrowind fic edited with their new Dreamwidth image links and re-posted at
lady_morningstar as I can before leaving for Yellowstone in about two weeks.And hopefully I can go back to writing about LOTRO and other things that spark my interest in this blog.
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