Last year I got a bad one during a weekend when we flew to Syracuse for my wife's grandmother's 90th birthday. If you think sinus infections are bad on the ground, try one in a fucking airplane with pressure changes. I felt like ass all weekend, and the only thing that made the pain go away was standing in the shower with the water as hot as I could stand it blasting me right in the forehead. No getting comfortable, no getting sleep, just burning, painful pressure. It was bad enough that the over-the-counter stuff barely even put a dent in it. At least my wife's family was cool about it and didn't give me any grief about skipping all the festivities - I just hid in the hotel. I have a reasonably high pain threshold, but bad sinus infections just knock my dick in the dirt.
Then, on the way back, the flight was delayed because of shitty weather in Chicago. We sat on the tarmak for 3 1/2 hours before taking off, and there was a screaming brat two rows behind me. THEN the plane had to return to the gate to refuel. THEN the joy of the flight itself.
God, what a horrible weekend that was.
