Sick

Despite the mild winter, or perhaps because of it, I've been living in a sick ward for the last few weeks.

Everybody has had some sort of cold/cough/chest congestion/phlegm in that period. That's fine; I can deal with that, and everybody else, while perturbed at all the hacking and nose-blowing, was OK with it, too.

But then Amelia's congestion turned into an ear infection, and since that time, things have tipped toward the dark side.

After a week's worth of amoxicillin, the poor girl developed ...