I'm sick.

I managed to catch the cold that's going around. I think I caught it on the plane on my way back from CO. Or maybe it was from standing at the top of a mountain with a wind chill below zero. Could go either way. But I definitely have it. For the last three days I've had a head full of gunk and I've been coughing up things of all sorts of colors, shapes, and sizes.

Last night Lyndsay and I got free tickets to go see the Predators play. We couldn't turn down free tickets! We went and had a great time (though the preds lost in the shootout)...but by the end of it I could tell I'd been in a cold arena too long. By the time I got home, my head was filling up with fluid...especially my ears. I took all my medicine and went to bed, but I knew an ear infection was imminent. Ever since I was a kid, just about every time I get sick I end up with an ear infection. It comes from having tubes in my ears as a kid...the left one worked, but the right tube came out early, and now the ear doesn't pressurize correctly when I fly on planes and always gets infected when I'm sick.

So I was able to blow the fluid out of my left ear...but my right one stayed clogged. I began praying that I wouldn't get an ear infection. It's amazing how I've been known to mock (at least to myself) people who pray things like "Lord, heal my hurting finger or foot" or something like that. But when I'm the one facing the pain...I just prove my hypocrisy. Or selfishness...one of the two. But...as I was praying, I began sneezing uncontrolably. Like...8 really loud, painful sneezes in a row. I don't think I've ever sneezed that much. Lyndsay woke up in a sleepy stupor and yelled at me to go blow my nose (which was pretty funny, she doesn't remember it at all). But with each sneeze, I felt pressure leave my ear. It was pretty awesome. And by the time I was done sneezing, the pressure was almost gone. I went to bed, and woke up this morning feeling great (in the ears...not that great in the head).

So I took some more medicine, and hopefully I'll be back up and like myself by tonight.