The actual last time
tears came out of my eyes was flying from Sweden to England on Monday. I've had a cold for about 4 weeks, and my sinuses are really blocked up. As we gained altitude, I started to feel a distinct pressure over my eyebrows that only got worse and worse until my eyes were overflowing from the pure pressure of my swollen, clogged up sinuses on my eyes. It felt like they were going to pop out and it hurt so much I nearly threw up. Like a really bad migrane, and there was nothing I could do about it because the airline staff weren't allowed to give me anything for it.

Luckily, it's only about a 2 hour flight, and as soon as we started dropping, it eased away. The guy next to me probably thought something terrible had happened, because I was crying constantly for the whole flight, just a silent, steady flow of tears... But I'm actually happy I cancelled my trip to Japan because of the illness. 12 hours non-stop migrane... Can't think of anything worse.

My ears still need to pop, dammit...
( vanja, Thu 14 Apr 2005, 15:06, Reply)