Well, now that I have recapped of my Tehas trip I don't have as much to blog about. I do have some advice for anyone that may be going on a plane somewhere. Make sure if you are congested you take something for it before your flight. Normally when you go through a change in pressure, from flying or diving, your middle ear, or Eustachian Tube, will open or close to equalize the pressure in your ears to your surroundings. Apparently if you happen to be congested, as I was on Sunday, it will hamper this process causing your ear to act up. In most cases, such as mine, you will have mild temporary hearing loss and slight sensation of numbness, this usually clears up in a day or so, though I am still partially feeling the effects. This whole barotrauma, what it's called when you have something wrong with your ear from pressure, is really annoying. Last night I felt like I had something over my ear preventing me from earing out of it very well. Today it's been doing much better but there is still a small amount of numbness. So yeah, if you fly take decongestants if you have to.
Also, I got to talk to Chris today, even though his base has bad reception and our call kept getting dropped, it was nice. See you tomorrow for the penultimate post of BEDApril 2010.
Future Participant in BEDAugust,
Mandog
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