Tuesday, September 16, 2003

My Ears! My Ears!

I know know how our Piri feels suffering from ear mites. Been in hospital all morning. They spent over an hour trying to get the bastard out. I can honestly say it was the most painful experience of my life. Worse than the botched wisdom tooth farce (whole other story) and worse than breaking both wrists at the same time.

The pain and pressure of both and insect and metal tweezers in your inner ear is indescribable. The noise of the metal tool on the metal ear canal expander is also terrifying, so close to your ear drum. I was in tears and screaming it was that bad. The doctor mentioned it was a tricky one to remove. If they ever have to do it to me again I will ask them to put me to sleep while they do it.

It wasn't a moth in the end, we don't know what it is (comment if you know.) In true Dirty Dio style I have a photo for to show you. It may not look big, but the fact it has a hard shell and was quite chunky made it difficult to extract. It was up against my ear drum by all accounts.

Whilst we moved from one broken down clinic room to a working one I took the opportunity to ask the doctor what the most unusual thing he had ever had to remove from an ear was. He said it was a four year old boy who had a cornflake stuck in one ear and a Rice Crispy stuck in the other.

I asked if he kept the milk in his nose.

Anyway. Ear full of anti-biological cream for 3 days, and a dull aching throb to contend with like someone had spent an hour scraping the inside of my head.

Posted by Dio Bach at 12:28

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