All Bugged Out

All Bugged Out

About a week and a half ago I woke up in the middle of the night and heard this crackly, clicking noise in my left ear. It was pretty loud, and very annoying.

It reminded me of a story:
A few months ago I read about a small child who complained to his parents that he heard a clicking noise in his ears. They went to the doctor, and the dr. found nothing wrong with the lad. They went to a specialist, and still nothing. They went here and there, but nothing could be found wrong with the little guy.

Well one morning the boy woke up and there lay on his pillow 2 tiny black spiders that had fallen out of his ear during his sleep. He is now fine.

Needless to say, I was worried I had a bug in my ear. This was the only explanation I could think of. I went back to sleep, and when I got up I still had the noise.

That evening I had my dh put a few drops of rubbing alcohol into my ear. It made the noise, and it burned ... but it didn't clear this up.

I went for a week more, and on Sunday when I work and need to focus I found myself very distracted by the noise in my ear. I came home thinking, this is going to go on the rest of my life. I need to make an appointment with the ears, nose, and throat doctors.

I prayed about it. Then it hit me to do the alcohol one last time. I came out and asked my dh to please put a few more drops of alcohol in my ear. Well, he did. And he put just a little too much in there. My ear was full of alcohol. I almost freaked, but let it stay there for probably 5 minutes or so.

The clicking noise is now gone. Today has been great, nice and quiet just like I like it.

I am sure I had something living in my ear, and I just can't find what it was!

Next time you hear noises, it might be spiders dancing in your ears.

The Most Influence

Who Had The Most Influence In Your Life?

I was thinking today about who, of all the people I have come into contact with, has had the most influence in my life.

I thought on this, last night, and picked up where I left of this morning. I'm going to say this is one of the hardest questions to answer. I don't have a clue why I thought this one up.

Just who has had the most influence?

Honestly, it would be hard to narrow it down to a single person. I think it would be easier to narrow it down to periods in my life. As a child, by far my grandmother. She taught me love, and nurture. She taught me faith, she taught me trust through her actions. I could always count on her. There are days, even as old as I am, that I would love to sit in her lap and have a word or two with her. I always knew everything would be ok.

As a teenager, who had the most influence? TOUGH!
I'm going to say two ladies, Terri and Susan. They always cared enough to read between the lines. They put up with the insaneness of being a teenager, and the always believed in me. The helped me to believe in me.

Early Adulthood, who had the most influence?
Mike, my dear therapist. There aren't enough words of praise for this gentleman. I think I could write a book on our journey to freedom, and peace. He was slow to label, but always willing to seek out the possibilities. He was the kind who, on his time even, would call at 10, 11, and 12 at night because he was truely worried about his clients. He didn't mind, it was what he did, and he loved every minute of it. He was the kind that knew all sorts of tricks to help you calm down, remember, and all the things you need to do to go on in life. He knew the tricks all of them. He was indeed the best there is.

Who in the latter of the early, has had the most influence?

Since, I'm venturing there now I must say there are three people. My dear spouse, who loves me no matter what crazy thing in conjour up. Then there are two sisters, that have absolutely made me want to do better in life. They are not perfect, but they are genuine. They shine light and they aren't even aware of it. They work good into so many people's lives, and they love doing it. They are my role models today, I'd have to say. I learn an incredible amount from them.
They are blessings in disguise.

In all the people I know, and will meet, and will be my big influences of tomorrow I will never forget these people here. I didn't name them all, but they all have had a tremendous impact on my life. They are why I am here, and they make my life liveable, happy, and fun.

This is probably an odd entry, but I wanted to write about them. Mike, I want to write personally and send him a winning lottery ticket. When life crumbles, I alwys want to go back to that dear soul. I just live too far away now. I owe him, he was just excellent. My two friends, if they stumbled on this and knew I was talking about them, I'd probably deny it. But, it will still ring true they are making a diffence in the here and now. I hope everyone has a big infuence in their life.

So who has had the biggest influence in your life? I'd love to hear.