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Alex C:
There's a smelly guy who keeps doing basically the same kind of crap to this one poor clerk that works at a book store I frequent. I believe I've mentioned him on Gabbly before; his flirting tactics seem to consist of either looking at her boobs or his own feet while talking about computers or the Vikings. He always seems to be there when I stop in, but it could just be because I only go on Fridays due to the drive; I hope for her sake that he actually just isn't there nearly every day, although it would explain why she always kind of looks like she's thinking of immolating herself. I'm dying to ask her about it, but I figure she's already got one nosey customer to deal with, so I guess it'll remain a mystery for now.
Alex C:
Yep, I never use swabs for the inside of my ears and I've never needed any sort of syringing. Your ears can do a good enough job of clearing themselves out on their own provided you avoid shoving it all back where it came from; believe it or not, your earwax is slowly pushed out of your ear at nearly imperceptible intervals all the time anyway via natural processes.
Elizzybeth:
--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 03 Dec 2008, 03:52 ---I've had pretty bad ear troubles my whole life. When I was little (like, 2 or 3) it became apparent that I couldn't hear very well and so needed to have grommets put in my ears (though I don't really understand why and have never took the time to find out). When I was about 12 my brother was dunking me in the pool and my earplugs (which I had to wear while swimming) fell out, the pressure of the water against my ears puncturing my left eardrum. I woke up that night in terrible pain and with blood leaking copiously from my ear. Eventually I got a skin graft to patch up the hole as it didn't heal itself but that didn't take as the skin graft ended up creating yet another hole that was eventually fixed up with another skin graft. As a result of all this, my left ear doesn't hear that well, especially high pitched noises, also it throws my directional hearing off by about 50% (it was tested in a biopsychology class I took in first year) though I guess it isn't helped by me being in a small room once a week while three other people around me play extremely loud music for about 2 hours straight.
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Ear trouble thread,
I've had a lifetime of ear problems, too! My story's remarkably similar to Jimmy's, actually. I had three tube surgeries for recurring otitis media as a little kid (they allow air into the middle ear to prevent infection--supposedly, of course), then had a ruptured eardrum that wouldn't heal on its own, so my surgeon reconstructed my eardrum from skin behind the ear.
Then, five years later, I developed a non-cancerous tumor that enveloped the eardrum. My surgeon then had to remove the whole thing and reconstruct the eardrum again.
Now, I've got 70% hearing loss in my right ear and have to wear a hearing aid. Surprisingly, it's not primarily a structural thing. It's an inherited sensory-neuro thing; after the surgeries, I still had normal hearing in that ear. This is a pain in the ass for two reasons: (1) it cannot be potentially healed by another surgery, and (2) I'm likely to lose much more of my hearing. My grandfather and mother are both effectively deaf.
Oh well. I guess all I can do is cross my fingers and hope for dramatically improved cochlear implant technology by the time I'm 45 and going completely deaf.
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Gilead:
Man you know what's great about insomnia?
Yeah neither do I. : \
20 jazz funk greats:
oh insomnia. i usually go to bed at 4 or 5 am. i then wake up around 1 or 2 pm. now you may wonder "anna, how do you ever get anything done?"
...i mostly don't.
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