Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: this started about a week ago and is still continuing to this day. 
so a bit of background info: i'm just entering my senior year of high school and i have plenty of stuff to worry about aside from this cold. i go to one of those "smart" schools where if you miss even a day you come back to mountain of work that weighs more than you. so about the second week of school, i feel something start to come on, mainly just a little throat gunk. i don't think much of it and it didn't occur to me how many new kids were sick. so i decided not to take medicine. fu #1. 

it gets worse and i get a cough from hell that's been with me for over a week. i cough to the point where my abs are sore and i feel like i just a hundred sit-ups. but it's fine during school, so i keep thinking i'm getting better. now comes the part where your ears start popping. if anyone's ever had that, you know how annoying it is, especially when you're trying to listen to a lecture. so i wake up today only to find that my right ear is completely blocked and i can't hear anything from that side. i have to turn to be able to hear anything. here comes the real fu:

about 5 minutes ago, i decide to google how i can pop my ears and be able to hear again. i read that holding your breath and trying to blow your nose works pretty well so i give it a shot (keep in mind this is happening during school). i try it... nothing. try it a little harder, nothing. then i do it as if i was actually blowing my nose and everything goes so wrong so quickly. it felt like my eardrums blasted open and sounded like a bullet next to my ear. it managed to help for a few seconds but then my body decided it would be in its best interest to block *both* my ears. and the shock from the pop disoriented me and made me dizzy too. 
now i can only hear my heart pounding away and it sounds like there's a full-time drummer standing in my head, yet i can't hear anything from outside other than muffled voices. looks like kinematic physics will have to wait.

TIFU by getting sick and trying to fix it