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So, this will probably interest no one, but it just has to be documented.
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So... I'd been deaf in my right ear for about three days. Don't ask me why I wasn't concerned about it. Probably because I've been inundated with schoolwork and haven't had time to think about anything that isn't statistics-marketing-bullshit-related. Anyway. Last night, I was like, "Oh hey, I still can't hear and, whoops, now it's killing me and I can't sleep!" So I called my Momma crying and she told me to go to the pharmacy.
I went to said pharmacy and Mr. Pharmacist Man was like, "Here, put this crap in your ear and if you don't feel better in the morning, go to the hospital." Took the stuff, woke up, no dice.
So I went to St. Luke's (which was an obnoxious endeavor in it's own right... but I digress) and sat around for three hours until I was called in. The doctor was all, "Whoa, your ear is fucked up!" Then he made me lie down and he poured this hot oil stuff into my ear. I then let hot oil stuff mull in my ear for almost an hour (the use of "mull" made me think of cider. Mmm, ear cider...). It was then...
IRRIGATION TIME!
Doctor took out mini, ear-sized power jet and blasted the hell out of my ear. It felt like someone was shooting me in the brain (...I would imagine; I've never been shot in the brain). I am one hundred percent convinced that I did, in fact, feel the water SLOSH MY BRAIN. It probably didn't, but man oh HELL did it hurt. The power jet tsunamied everything out of my ear - I could feel things ripping from my ear canal, and it felt like burning brains. When the irrigation process was over, doctor showed me the basin and I saw the veritable alien that came out of my ear. Seriously. Black and red and death in my ear, flushed out into a vomit bin.
I have an ear infection.
Anyway, I can hear again, so that's good news. It still hurts, and my Saturday was shot to hell. Stupid ear. I mean, I love you ear, please stop growing aliens.
Now I have to put drops in my ear and wear a cotton ball for like three weeks. Julie is administering the drops and I feel like a sick cat. I'm sleepy.
Ears.
Don't read if you don't like
So... I'd been deaf in my right ear for about three days. Don't ask me why I wasn't concerned about it. Probably because I've been inundated with schoolwork and haven't had time to think about anything that isn't statistics-marketing-bullshit-related. Anyway. Last night, I was like, "Oh hey, I still can't hear and, whoops, now it's killing me and I can't sleep!" So I called my Momma crying and she told me to go to the pharmacy.
I went to said pharmacy and Mr. Pharmacist Man was like, "Here, put this crap in your ear and if you don't feel better in the morning, go to the hospital." Took the stuff, woke up, no dice.
So I went to St. Luke's (which was an obnoxious endeavor in it's own right... but I digress) and sat around for three hours until I was called in. The doctor was all, "Whoa, your ear is fucked up!" Then he made me lie down and he poured this hot oil stuff into my ear. I then let hot oil stuff mull in my ear for almost an hour (the use of "mull" made me think of cider. Mmm, ear cider...). It was then...
IRRIGATION TIME!
Doctor took out mini, ear-sized power jet and blasted the hell out of my ear. It felt like someone was shooting me in the brain (...I would imagine; I've never been shot in the brain). I am one hundred percent convinced that I did, in fact, feel the water SLOSH MY BRAIN. It probably didn't, but man oh HELL did it hurt. The power jet tsunamied everything out of my ear - I could feel things ripping from my ear canal, and it felt like burning brains. When the irrigation process was over, doctor showed me the basin and I saw the veritable alien that came out of my ear. Seriously. Black and red and death in my ear, flushed out into a vomit bin.
I have an ear infection.
Anyway, I can hear again, so that's good news. It still hurts, and my Saturday was shot to hell. Stupid ear. I mean, I love you ear, please stop growing aliens.
Now I have to put drops in my ear and wear a cotton ball for like three weeks. Julie is administering the drops and I feel like a sick cat. I'm sleepy.
Ears.