Last week, I spent a few days home from work with what I called "Sampler Sickness." The sickness gave me a new, independent symptom to try out each day – sore throat the first day, hacking cough the second, and so forth. The last symptom the Sickness gave me was an almost-constant popping in my ears. Since a coworker recently lost part of her hearing to a freak sickness-type-thing, this made me nervous. So I did what all nervous sick people do: turn to WebMD.
After a simple search only turned up articles about ear aches, I went to WebMD's online symptom checker, the thing where you click on the part of your body that is hurting/bleeding/removed. This is the list that came up:
You will notice that popping, a common ear affliction, is not on the list, but TASTING WORDS WHEN THEY ARE HEARD is. Now, synesthesia, the condition that causes people to taste words when they are heard (among other things) totally exists. Some types of it (although NOT the taste/hearing one) are relatively common. But, um, you know what else exists, and, oh, apparently happens ALL THE TIME after colds? GETTING FLUID STUCK IN YOUR EARS.
Can you sue WebMD for malpractice?
Also, I'm told the fluid will drain on its own. For now: pop pop, pop pop pop.