Aqua-Dementia
Wednesday 17th September 2008 @ 4:54 AM
I’ve managed to get Swimmer’s Ear. What the chunks? Homeboy can’t even swim! And yet here I spent the last day and a half with what feels like a tablespoon full of fluid in by my anvil and hammer and other tiny bone.
Apart from the fact that it occasionally gets painful (as I tried to sleep last morning for example) the primary problem with Swimmer’s Ear is that it blocks sounds like an earplug and that has the effect of amplifying inside-head noises like crunching or swallowing or that constant swearing voice that we all try so hard to block out.
Anyway, I can officially state that I’m not a fan of Swimmer’s Ear. You’re all amazed to hear it.
Haiku!
Duck language is hard.
Too many words sound the same.
Ducks should learn English.
I looked up the other tiny bone. It’s the stirrup. No wonder I didn’t remember that. Back when they taught me about the earbones, I probably had no idea what a stirrup was, so it didn’t stick in my mind the way the others did. They really should have taught me about stirrups first. I now officially hate the Canadian school system.
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Marq · 1286
Wednesday 17th September 2008 @ 9:59 pm
I notice ‘homeboy’ taking a lot of baths lately. Maybe that’s the chunks.
PDR · 1287
Thursday 18th September 2008 @ 2:29 pm
Well, there’s is that. Plus the fact that wearing earplugs almost daily for the last few years has resulted in me having “impacted ear wax” or something along those lines, as I was told during my last two annual physicals. The internet lists that as a cause.
But at no point was I SWIMMING.
PDR · 1289
Saturday 27th September 2008 @ 6:24 am
For the record, as of now the pressure and fluid and all that stuff is finally gone. I merely have an itch in that ear that won’t go away. Still maddening, less painful when I try to sleep.