The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

I have seen this on a couple of other people's blogs and thought I'd give it a try.

The Good

I have finally started to fill out my grad school application. I was planning to only apply to one school (USC) but I may apply to more than one. One problem I'm running into is not having the proper pre-requisites...

The Bad

No new news on the job front. I am having trouble even finding things to apply for.

The Ugly

As I mentioned in my previous post I was having some sort of ailment. I thought I had gotten somewhat better by Saturday, October 23rd. So when my cousin and her family came down from Brigham City, I went with them and my mom to Witches Night Out at Gardner Village. I was fine while we there, although still somewhat nauseous and didn't want to eat a whole lot (I actually asked about soups at dinner and I don't really like soup). We left there at about 11:00 and my mom wanted to go to the store. As soon as we get to the store, my ear started to hurt. It wasn't too bad at this point but enough to be annoying. About an hour and a half after this, it starts to get really painful. I couldn't believe how much it hurt! I was actually smacking my head to see if I could get some of the fluid out to relieve the pressure. Well about two hours after it started hurting, I heard a popping noise and fluid suddenly was fizzing out of my ear. I then threw up again and my ear started ringing. It was about 2 in the morning at this point and I wasn't totally sure what had happened or what to do about it so I went to bed (I was also somewhat drugged at this point since I had taken NyQuil earlier to knock myself out so I wouldn't be in pain anymore). I had dropped my phone somewhere the night before and couldn't find it (I couldn't bare to bend over since I was still in a lot of pain) so I didn't set my alarm to wake up for regional conference. My alarm went off at my Saturday wake up time (10 or 11) and I got up and couldn't hear out of my left ear at all. I decided to look up ruptured ear drum on the internet and had all the symptoms of it. I waited for my parents to come home and told them about what had happened and they both said my ear drum had ruptured. So off to the urgent care I went which I had avoided all that week since I don't have any health insurance. This urgent care has a deal where if you're uninsured they will charge you a flat fee of $99 so it was probably better than going to a Dr's office and definitely better than going to the ER. So I go in and tell her what's been going on all week and she gives me a look like I should have gone in earlier (sore throat for a week and vomiting without cold symptoms). I asked her if I should have gone in and she was kind of wishy washy but offered to test me for strep but as I was getting an oral antibiotic (as well as an ear drop) I didn't feel it was necessary. My soar throat went away a day or two after taking the anti-biotic so I'm pretty sure I had strep. You've got to love working with little kids! So this whole adventure cost me $170 for the urgent care and two prescriptions.

Today was my first antibiotic free day and my ear still feels weird but I think I'm definitely on the upswing of it.

On a side note, I was Snow White for Halloween and dyed my hair black temporarily. It's washed out into a dark brown which I'm kind of enjoying so I may dye it this color permanently (dark brown). Here is a pic of my MJ from Thriller pumpkin (this will definitely become a tradition of mine), my whole costume, and then a closer one of my face: