What?

For the past two or so weeks the hearing in my left ear has gone from slightly muffled to almost deaf, causing me endless annoyance and physical irritation. I can barely hear/understand English let alone Spanish. But what is killing me is that I cannot clearly hear my own voice, it's amplified in my head and very drowned out, so that when I speak all that I hear is a muffled mixture of syllables, which makes it very hard to speak Spanish clearly.

I've been to two different doctors, the first told me that it was an infection, and the second that it was a fungus. I just started antibiotic pills today (amoxycillin) so hopefully things will start picking up in a few days.

Besides this, everything is gravy. Vacations have just started, and I have yet to decide where I want to go, or if I should even travel in this condition. Regardless, practically everyone is gone and I'm anticipating being fairly bored with the crappy weather that we are having. If the weather clears up (and my ear) I really feel like just going by myself somewhere for a little photography trip.

Wish me luck, if I go deaf you are all going to have to learn sign language....