Ear infections

I have another infection. I'd forgotten that, in addition to the unpleasant discharge and pain, another enjoyable side effect is how you can hear your heart hammer a lot more loudly when your ear is gunked and swollen.

I can remember as a kid trying to sleep with the pain of an infected ear, to the point of having to sleep with the infected ear pressed against a naked hot water bottle in an effort to try and slake some of the agony.

Stupid ear infections. Grr.