Yucko!

I finally went to the doctor today to get my ear checked out. I know, I know, two weeks is a long time to wait to get something checked out. . .especially for a hypochondriac. It's just that the weather has been so nice I didn't want to waste all the time sitting in a doctor's office. Besides, half the fun of being a hypochondriac is imagining all the delightful things that could be wrong with you, not actually finding out what is truly wrong.

Well it turns out that it was pretty mundane. My ear was just blocked with ear wax. Sounds simple doesn't it, but I'm talking like a cork in a wine bottle blocked up. All I have to say is I felt bad for that poor medical technician who had to irrigate my ear. It is kind of like picking somebody else's nose. Especially when the gelatinous mass comes gushing out of the ear to plop into the little container by the ear.

It was pretty unnerving for me as well. I have this thing about stuff in my ear. It just feels wrong like it is going to soak into my brain or something. So you can just imagine my horror as I had a mix of water and hydrogen peroxied shot at high pressure right into my ear. I thought I was gonna freak, it was like my brains were being washed out my ear!

But all is well and I can hear again. Whether that is a good thing or not I'll have to let you know later.