Hello, all!    I’ve had a nasty bit of illness in the past month that took me by complete surprise and landed me in the hospital twice. The long and short of it is, it appears I’m having some time of allergic reaction. I thought it was environmental allergies, and ignored persistent symptoms thinking they’d go away, but when I ignored the symptoms, I ended up with ear infections (twice, over the past few months) that got so bad, I ended up hospitalized for pain management and IV antibiotics. Fun times, you guys.   Not gonna lie, it was rough. Between the pain, being away from home, being away from Jason and my kids and my puppy (the puppy separation was harder than I'd expected!), it was pretty awful. But this week was particularly difficult. I called Jason from the hospital and told him the doctor said one ear infection had, over the course of a few weeks, gone from one ear to the next. “So I’m relieved it wasn’t from something I did to bring this on,” I told him, confessing to