I am finally on the verge of total recovery. I had a nasty sinus infection - the first one I think I've ever had. It was awful. The left side of my head was totally fine, but the right side felt like someone had peeled open my skull and lodged a brick inside. My face hurt, my ear was clogged to the point of not being able to hear out of it, my eye had so much pressure on it from the blocked sinus that it was constantly watering. And the snot. Oh, the snot. People, I could have built a house out of bricks using my snot as mortar. It would have been a two-story colonial. There was so much snot, and frankly, not enough kleenex to hold it all. In the span of six days I went through four boxes of kleenex. (and yes, Jake, it was ACTUALLY kleenex, which is why I am calling it that and not facial tissue).
I took Morgan's advice and went to the Minute Clinic for some meds. It took more like 90 minutes, but it was still quicker and easier than trying to make an appointment at my doctor's office. They gave me a prescription for amoxicillan, which I thought only small children with ear infections took. I was wrong. The pills may be giant and grown up, but they are still nauseatingly pink, just like the children's liquid is.
So, I am finally feeling a bit more normal and have gone from blowing my nose approximately 6,000 times a day to only about 100 times, so that's nice. The skin on my nostrils is also healing nicely, as it was worn away by all of the constant kleenex contact.