Little Pink Pills

There are few things worse than being sick when it's summertime. While everyone else is outside having fun, you're stuck inside feeling miserable. Okay, who am I kidding? It's Arizona, everyone is inside feeling miserable. But at least they don't have a dull headache on the left side of their face from their temple down to their jaw and across their cheekbone to their nose. A headache that magnifies when you chew on the left side or press your tongue against the roof of your mouth, but only on the left side. A headache that started Saturday night and has been with me ever since, even when I wake up in the morning. It's not phased by 600 mg of ibuprofen every few hours or massive quantities of hot green tea or that dumb headache remedy you do by pressing your thumb and forefinger into the webbed part of your left hand.

I'd had enough of the headache, and the accompanying watery, bulging eyes from the pressure inside my head, so I paid my doctor a visit. The diagnosis: a bad sinus infection. The remedy: little pink pills (antibiotics), lots of liquids, and hot moist compresses twice a day. So far things aren't any better (okay, it's only been 5 hours, 1 pink pill and 1 compress), but I have to report the compresses feel amazing. Even if you don't have a sinus infection you should try it: stack two folded washcloths on top one another, get wet, ring out, microwave for 20 seconds, and press on your face. Ah, sweet (temporary) relief...

With only 29 more little pink pills to go, I'm on my way to crossing off #132: cure mid-summer sinus infection.