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Bookless Club: A columnist discovers just how much a bad ear infection hurts

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Well, except that, in some ways, I’ve been revisiting childhood. If you were a kid who had chronic ear infections, I can now say I feel your pain. If you were a parent of such a kid, my condolences.

You see, I’m just recovering from bilateral ear infections. I can’t remember the last time I had an ear infection. Early childhood, perhaps. One of my kids suffered from chronic ear infections requiring surgery. On our many trips to Children’s Hospital, his agony was inconsolable. I now know exactly why.

My ear infection snuck up on me. At first, I thought I had a dental problem. The dentist poked, prodded and X-rayed — nothing there — but he noticed that my lymph nodes were swollen. Soon, sleep became impossible. Very quickly I could see where the cliché of an ice pick in the head came from. The infection wasn’t uni-focal; I felt sick all over. And then my hearing went........

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