What a morning. I was peacefully asleep up until the early hours, then jolted up about a thousand times feeling like I had something twisting, ticking and rubbing in my ear. This was earache pain, so around 3am I get up and popped a Paracetamol ... still this does not do the trick.
One step up from this I switch on my laptop in pain and Google "Earache condition and treatment." I establish I have earache, that it probably was caused by the Freshers Flu from which I recovered from and seek herbal remedies. Freshers flu = the first two weeks at university where everyone coughs and splutters due to the infestation of so many of us in one place.
From my search I fine the olive oil remedy, if it can let little screaming kids get to sleep, then surely it can work for me. So I follow the instructions, warm the olive oil up for 15 seconds in the microwave. Dip a piece of cotton wool in the bowl, drip two or three drops down the canal and pop it in the ear. Also I add an extra pillow and like down, earache ear up.
So... the pain goes after an hour and I fall into a deep sleep from 4am until 8.30. At 8.45 by door knocks and I'm listening to the maintenance guy out of one ear (or at least it sounds so to me). I was dumb-struck by my showerhead so called him as it looked fixed into one position. Luckily my twisting action just needed to be tweaked and hey presto.
I call my Gran in the evening (the Queen of Alternative therapy and anything to do with her health and everybody else). She agrees the olive oil trick is cool, but that I shouldn’t drop the oil in my ear as it might cause further infection and to sauté an onion with butter and eat it straight to boost my immune system. So that should cure the earache / weakness ... plus I'll be getting some real earache medicine tomorrow as my right ear can't do all the work!
