Can You Hear Me Now?

So I haven't been able to hear out of my left ear for about four days now. I'm almost positive it's not a medical emergency or anything permanent but it's getting pretty damn annoying. I just thought I would compile some of the things I've noticed while this is been happening because apparently, I have nothing better to do with my Thursday night.

1. You Will Get Scared More Easily

So I'm a paranoid person as it is. If you tap me on the shoulder without saying my name first, I will probably start to think I'm having a heart attack. Effectively only being able to hear things happing on one side of you will start to throw you into heart-palpation mode if a leaf so much as falls in front of you suddenly. This happened three times in my own apartment because I couldn't hear that anyone was home and I thought I might as well melt into a puddle of shame right there on the kitchen floor.

2. You'll Think Everyone is Staring at You

You know that thing when one sense gets screwed up so the others try to compensate? I've turned to trying to see more things and notice more details in an attempt to preemptively understand things that could potentially startle me. I don't know if this has me doing crazy eyes or anything but I feel like people are making a lot more eye contact with me than usual.

3. Your Face Will Feel Sort of Funny

Or at least, one side of your face will. I don't know if all this white noise I've been hearing is getting to me but the left side of my face kind of feels tingly in a numb sort of way. I don't know what this means. It's probably not actually happening. I'm not a medical professional.

4. You Will Feel Meaner

I don't know if it's because you're a little more removed from everything else going on in your surroundings or it's the sad looks your friends shoot you when you ask them to repeat themselves several times, but you'll probably feel like you've mysteriously turned into a jerk. I don't know, maybe you were a jerk all along and you needed this crisis to realize it. Lets hope its just the ear thing and you'll be back to normal when it pops in a few days.