Ear Infection

My right ear started to ache since saturday to the extend that it was blocked. The kind of feeling you get when you go swimming and water gets into your ears but can't get out...

Kind of got worse on Sunday so I decided to go to the doctor on monday to have it checked since most clinics were closed on sundays.Monday morning it got worse again, this time my gums and right side of the throat started to ache as well! So off I went to the doctor...

When I was there, he used this apparatus to look into my ear and it really hurt! because my ear was already swollen and painful on the inside. Then he told me it looked like a broken ear drum! I was shocked when I heard that...but he couldn't really tell as there were quite abit of dirt inside my ear. So he gave me some ear drops and antibiotics and I am to visit him again in 2 weeks again to ascertain what's wrong.

These past 2 days have been so uncomfortable for me...I couldn't really hear properly although the pain has subsided. It now comes on and off and my gums and throat doesn't hurt that much anymore. But it's really weird to hear myself more loudly than I hear others whenever I'm conversing! And I can't really judge how loud I am speaking because I hear myself more loudly than usual...

I have half my mind to go take an xray to find out if it's a broken ear drum or infection! But guess the wise thing to do now is to wait...and pray! I am now standing on and claiming His promise that by His stripes I am healed! So I haven't been worried per se, just feeling very irritable. sometimes my ears itch by I don't really dare to touch it!

Hope that the weird and uncomfortable feeling goes away soon and I can hear normally once again!

hello again!

It's been such a long time since I last blogged! think the interest to blog has already died down now that there's facebook...haha...facebook is evil!

Well, it's been an emotional up and down for me the past few days. Was really disappointed at an event that didn't happen, but yet glad that it didn't anyway in view of another major event that's coming up.

Looking forward to my long break in April where I'll be going for a mission trip! Just attended a meeting on the trip yesterday and found out that it isn't going to be the free and easy kind. Rather, it's going to be quite tiring! But looking forward to it anyway.

To prepare ourselves, Hun and I are now going on a fast from all meat (except fish, cos we not confident enough to totally abstain from meat all together). It's been a week since we fasted, not too bad...still coping :) Maybe nearer the date, we'll need to set aside special prayer time for the trip to prepare ourselves!

Work wise, I'm coping better now...thank God! Not as stressed as previously when I felt like quitting everyday, still stressed though...but manageable. But I do feel tha if I could, to take a long break from working...but I still need the income!! Newly married couple still owing debts and instalment, cannot afford to shake leg and be tai tai yet.

I'm reminded of what my mother used to tell me about going into a marriage debt free. Now I know the importance of it! But sadly, in our society now, how is it possible to go debt free and without instalment when cost of living is so high now? Unless you are really rich, I don't see how one can pay for everything upfront when starting a family. Unless you work and work and save and save and get married at the age of 50. So to go into a marriage debt free is only possible for rich men's kids, rich young people, people who strike lottery, or found an abandoned bag filled with $1m cash....or more mature adults who are still single after they hit 40.

Well, but in any case, I'm glad I got married earlier and even if it means working a few more years before I fulfill my ultimate goal of becoming a full time tai tai, it's worth it! Marriage has been great so far :) of cos we had our fair share of squabbles...but they remain mainly squabbles and not quarrels. Hun has been very sweet and accomodating, I would say I find him even more tolerant than before we were married! And I guess I've become less emotional too...haha...So all in all, it has been a great 10 months! Time flies...and in under 60 days, we'll be celebrating our first year anniversary already :)

But for now, it's preps for the mission...and more after that...