How is earache girl doing? I was fairly prone to ear infections as a kid. It seems like whenever I had a bad cold, I was likely to get one requiring either over-the-counter drops or something from our family doctor who made a lot of house calls during the late 1950s in up-and-coming (ha) Whitehall, Ohio.
Fortunately, I somehow grew out of that, but I did have one bad ear infection revisiting me around 1996. I went to a doctor and got strong antibiotics. He took one look in there and said, "yeah, that's a REAL ear infection". I remember having a really bad cold then, and one evening I woke from a nap, laying on my side, and feeling that old familiar pressure in the ear. Absolutely horrible. Nothing since then, knock wood.