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There was a period when I was five years old when I would wake up in the night in pain and one or other of my ears would be bleeding.
How can I be sure I was five? Because after several of these spontaneous episodes my mother took me to the doctor and he sent me to have a tonsilectomy which in those days was literally a medical or surgical fashion because they didn't see any use for tonsils (they still don't understand what they are for, apparently!) so it was done in the absence of some other alternative solution to the problem.
This means I had no signs of any infection. I know I didn't have any infection anyway but this, in retrospect, confirms it.
So the question is, why did I wake up in the middle of the night with pain in one or other of my ears and with blood on the pillow and yet no apparent reason, no infection, no disease?
I only came to understand what this all meant a few years ago, at least forty and maybe even fifty years after the events themselves.
What do I conclude?
For the time being I want to withhold that information. You have enough to work it out just like I have. All the plausible explanations don't satisfy the facts so you are left with an implausible one and that is the one, for the time being anyway, I am choosing not to elaborate further on. At some later stage I might do.
For now, let me just empasize a few things about this. One is that I never had any pain or discomfort in my ears at any other time, it was only ever something that struck me at night. The pain woke me up. This happened maybe six or more times and I don't remember if the nights were consequetive. If one ear was painful and bled then the other ear was fine!
No infections. No disease. No apparent cause.
A mystery.
(Maybe more to come so come back in some weeks or months and check from time to time.)
By Paul E. Coughlin
SaneThinking.com
27th April 2007
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