DEAR SUSAN:
I HAVE AN INTERESTING STORY TO TELL YOU ABOUT THIS SITE. I AM A SINGER IN A COFFEEHOUSE AND MY EAR WAS HURTING SO BADLY ON SATURDAY THAT I COULD NOT GO TO WORK THAT NIGHT. I HAD TAKEN BENADRYL, SUDAFED, AND TYLENOL. NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK. ON SUNDAY EVENINGS I TEACH A BIBLE STUDY AT THE COFFEEHOUSE. I HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO SLEEP DUE TO THE PAIN, SO I WAS UP WALKING AROUND HOLDING MY EAR ON SUNDAY MORNING.
I HAD AN IMPRESSION TO GO TO THE COMPUTER AND LOOK UP EARACHE, BUT AT FIRST I HESITATED BECAUSE I FIGURED I WOULD FIND SOME INFORMATION THAT WOULD MAKE ME MORE AFRAID. BUT AFTER FEELING THIS VERY STRONGLY, I WENT TO THE COMPUTER AND TYPED IN "EARACHE AND ALLERGY" . THE FIRST TWO OR THREE SITES THAT CAME UP WERE FROM DOCTORS OR MEDICAL- TYPE PAGES, BUT THEN I LANDED ON YOUR SITE. THE FIRST THING I SAW WAS MY NAME ON THE SECOND LINE OF THE PAGE ABOUT EARACHE REMEDIES. MY NAME IS SO UNUSUAL, THAT I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE SEEN IT WRITTEN THE WAY I SPELL IT ANYWHERE! MY NAME IS LONNETTE-MY FATHER'S NAME WAS LONNIE AND I WAS NAMED AFTER HIM. ANYWAY, SEEING MY NAME THERE REALLY GOT MY ATTENTION. IT WAS THE REMEDY ABOUT PUTTING VICKS ON A COTTON BALL WHICH WAS TO BE PUT IN THE EAR. I REALLY THOUGHT GOD HAD A PART IN THIS TREATMENT AT THIS POINT, SO I DID WHAT IT SAID. I RECEIVED IMMEDIATE RELIEF FROM MY EARACHE, FINALLY GOT SOME MUCH NEEDED SLEEP, AND WAS ABLE TO TEACH MY BIBLE STUDY THAT NIGHT-(WHICH BY THE WAY, WAS ON THE TOPIC OF "WHEN GOD DOESN'T MAKE SENSE". IT WAS ABOUT NAAMAN THE LEPER, WHO WAS TOLD TO DIP 7 TIMES IN THE JORDAN RIVER TO BE HEALED OF HIS LEPROSY. I HAD TO LAUGH BECAUSE THIS REMEDY FOR MY EARACHE MADE ABOUT AS MUCH SENSE, BUT IT WORKED!!! GOD LED ME TO YOUR SITE. THANK YOU-JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS STORY WITH YOU! LONNETTE HARRELL