Tag Archives: anti-biotics

I have been plagued since childhood with bad ears.  Seems my eardrums don’t seal properly and I get terrible sinus/ear infections.  I am suffering through another occurrence right now, but with the help of modern anti-biotics I know I will be much better soon.  My first occurrence I remember is when I was about eight years old, traveling with my family and suddenly my fever shot up to 105 and I went into delirium.  Both my Eustachian tubes had collapsed.  Those are the passages that equalize pressure from your throat to your middle ear.  It was like in the movies where you have the sweaty sick person babbling incoherently.  After a bottle of Ampicillin it was like nothing had happened.  Six broken ear drums and two ear surgeries later, I find myself still slurping up the penicillin derivatives.  It’s funny if you think about it.  Pre-1940 I would have died at age 8.