Friday, May 28, 2010

Caffeinated Randomness - I can't hear you.



It has been a while since I did a Caffeinated Randomness post.  Probably because my life is so purpose-filled and intentional that there is nothing random to share.

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.  

But today's story, well it really can't go anywhere else.  Because this is just so random, you can't make this sort of thing up.  :-)
Tuesday.  I am showing my sister something on my PC, when I feel something tickle my ear.  Me left ear.  (Pay attention.  This becomes important later.)  I scratch at it, and she tells me she thinks there was a miggie flying around.  (miggie = small flying insect; fruit-fly; midge)
Well, whatever it was.  It is now in my ear.  And I can't shake it loose.

So I try to irrigate my ear with sweet oil.  Of which I have about half a tea-spoon left.  After filling and draining twice, I use up my supplies, and still feel like I have something in there.  Bother!
So I call my friend, who is a pharmacist at our local medical centre, and ask for advice.  He suggested I come in, and let one of the nursing sisters look in my ear.  Which I did.
And they found.... nothing.

I found this hard to believe, because I could still feel it, and it still hurt.  But who am I to argue with a otoscope?
 
So I went home, and slept on it.

The next morning it still hurt a little.  But I decided that might just be all the oil, so I would just leave it.  So when my ears started itching, I just used a Q-tip in the right one. 

And it broke.

That's right.  Less than twelve hours after going to the medical centre, I had something lodged in my other ear.  What are the chances of that?

I mean.... really!!!
 
So now what?  I can't go back to the sister to ask for another examination, on the other side.  And I am not going to pay a doctor to look for something that may have fallen out.
Decisions. Decisions.
 
Long story short, I got a nurse at another pharmacy to look at it, and confirm there was something stuck in there.  Then I made an appointment to see my doctor, for which I had to wait the whole day.  With a piece of cotton wedged in my ear.
Not my greatest week.
 
So after the doctor did his thing with the forceps, which took about 0.27 seconds, I got to go home with clean ears.

And on the way out I stopped at the pharmacy to show my friend my medical report.  "Foreign object in ear"  Luckily the doctor hadn't specified which ear. :-)



16 comments:

  1. Oh my, that is funny! I hope you have a great weekend!

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  2. Why do I have the sudden urge to put on a pair of ear muffs?

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  3. yikes!!! That sounds like an awful day!!!! My ears are itchy just reading this!!!

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  4. Oh my word - that is horrid but also funny. Makes for a good story! Glad your ears are clean and you can now enjoy the weekend - and hear!!!

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  5. I feel bad...but I'm laughing...er, WITH you, or course! HAHAHAHAHA! That's real random fineness.

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  6. You're not supposed to put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear...really...that's what my grandma always told me...

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  7. ♥ Kathy - I have been reading that a lot this week. After each incident, I went onto the net to find out what you should do.

    Now I know.

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  8. Haha!! I can honestly say I have never had that happen. Yet.

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  9. I have a fear of getting something in my ear...you just helped make my fear worse. EEK. Glad everything is okay and your ears are very clean ;)

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  10. Wow! And I thought I was disaster prone. At least when I got that flying ant in my ear it wasn't followed by anything else. At least miggies don't bite. Now you know why I'm paranoid about flying things.

    Crystal

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  11. YIKES! Although I would have probably stuck anything I could get my hands on if I thought there was a miggy mite or whatever kind of bug flying around in my head. I already have too many other people in there as it is. LOL

    I bet you have a new appreciation for women who need forceps to deliver babies.....well, maybe not. I just got the childbirth image in my head with that mention of forceps. *shudder*

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  12. Coffee and reformed theology, my two favorites, ears just have to be done at least once every three years one of those thing that come with age.

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  13. Haha!!!! I love that!

    The poor nurse. She must feel like a failure. you probably ruined her entire life.

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  14. My doctor recommends hydrogen peroxide in the ear for ear infections, so I probably would have tried to drown the little bug!

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  15. Okay, now I'm going to feel like there are things crawling around in my ears. Thanks for that.

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