Update:
Hey All,
I might have posted something about how my ears were all blocked up with wax, and that I was dripping olive oil into them while waiting for an appointment to get them syringed.
As far as medical complaints go, this wasn't too bad and it did force me to wrok out exactly where my new GP was located, since the old one closed and is now a counselling service or something.
Anyways, about three weeks ago I finally made it to an appointment to have the doc look in my ears again, whereupon he declared both ears to be "pretty rammed" and that I needed to keep oiling them for a week until the nurse could syringe them.
Of course, last week the clocks went forward an hour, and I remembered to change some of them but not the others. So I missed my appointment because I was looking at the wrong clock (yep, I suck). I rescheduled the syringing for the next availiable double slot (both ears, ya'see), which happened to be seven days from then.
Today I headed to the clinic, all the while having terrifying visions of a clueless nurse blasting my ears with an enema syringe full of hot, salty water until blood pours out of one or both.
Turns out these days the art of ear syringing is done with a specialised device that delivers water at a stead temperature and at a constant pressure. That ear syringing misshaps seemed to be the most popular source of compensation claims (source: wikipedia) might have had something to do with the change.
Anyways, while my premonitions of trauma and doom turned out to be unfounded, because there was so much wax in my ears, the process was only half successful.
The nurse (middle-aged, matronly and faintly Scottish) managed to clear my right ear, but my left ear still needs more olive oiling before it can be fully de-waxed. For what it is worth, out of my right ear (the one that was been 'the good ear' over the last few weeks) came a lump of wax the size of a sultana.
I shudder to think what they will get out of my left.
In any case, I go back in a week and a half time, when hopefully they be able to sandblast the remaining wax out, leaving both ears fully functional and wax free.
Yay.
Over and out,
-J
I might have posted something about how my ears were all blocked up with wax, and that I was dripping olive oil into them while waiting for an appointment to get them syringed.
As far as medical complaints go, this wasn't too bad and it did force me to wrok out exactly where my new GP was located, since the old one closed and is now a counselling service or something.
Anyways, about three weeks ago I finally made it to an appointment to have the doc look in my ears again, whereupon he declared both ears to be "pretty rammed" and that I needed to keep oiling them for a week until the nurse could syringe them.
Of course, last week the clocks went forward an hour, and I remembered to change some of them but not the others. So I missed my appointment because I was looking at the wrong clock (yep, I suck). I rescheduled the syringing for the next availiable double slot (both ears, ya'see), which happened to be seven days from then.
Today I headed to the clinic, all the while having terrifying visions of a clueless nurse blasting my ears with an enema syringe full of hot, salty water until blood pours out of one or both.
Turns out these days the art of ear syringing is done with a specialised device that delivers water at a stead temperature and at a constant pressure. That ear syringing misshaps seemed to be the most popular source of compensation claims (source: wikipedia) might have had something to do with the change.
Anyways, while my premonitions of trauma and doom turned out to be unfounded, because there was so much wax in my ears, the process was only half successful.
The nurse (middle-aged, matronly and faintly Scottish) managed to clear my right ear, but my left ear still needs more olive oiling before it can be fully de-waxed. For what it is worth, out of my right ear (the one that was been 'the good ear' over the last few weeks) came a lump of wax the size of a sultana.
I shudder to think what they will get out of my left.
In any case, I go back in a week and a half time, when hopefully they be able to sandblast the remaining wax out, leaving both ears fully functional and wax free.
Yay.
Over and out,
-J
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