and then my head exploded

I was sick yesterday. Not horrible flu-like sickness but the kind where your head feels like it may float off and your nose has turned into a snot faucet. Not a pretty picture I know but an accurate one of how I felt. Even now my head feels like it may detach itself from my body and float away. This sickness was inevitable, I had ignored the warning signs on Friday and Saturday but Saturday was a special day. I flew to Amarillo with my “Bible Study friends” and went to our other Bible Study friend’s wedding. More on that later, in fact it will get its own post. Back to my floating faucety head. I realized that flying makes me sleepy or at least causes me to yawn uncontrollably. It must be the recycled oxygen they pump in the cabin when we are above normal breathing levels. So I was yawny, tired (because I woke up first at 5:30 then at 6:00 am on a Saturday – I’m not sure I’ve seen the morning side of those times on the weekend, I’ve seen the evening sides from staying up late, or early, or whatever), and feeling more sickness as the day wore on. The sickness was nothing in comparison to the fun we had but it was lurking in the background. Then of course on the return flight my ears decided to be obnoxious (yes obnoxious ears) and not pop. So I’m starting to succumb to the sickness and my ears are building up pressure in my head and I just wanted my head to vent some of that pressure of even explode. I actually wondered if I could find a long pokey thing to stick into my ear and break the buildup of painful gasses that were suffocating my brain and squeezing my eyes out of their sockets. Alas no explosion or release of pressure occurred. It did get better when we landed and I made it safely home but I gave in to the sickness and spent Sunday and Monday in bed trying to recuperate without the assistance of a doctor. Now I’m back, a days behind in work, and suffering from a floaty head.