I Got My Ear Syringed

For those who don't know, I've been walking around half deaf for the last five days after some bitch in my FCP tute stuck an otoscope halfway to Africa down my ear. I was walking around with a blocked ear... as in, it felt like I'd just gone swimming except I couldn't shake the water out.

I went to the doctor today who confirmed that I had some lovely earwax clogging my lovely hearing-hole. When I told him what happened he basically spent five minutes asking me what units I was doing and then he reminisced about FCP with me. He was quite a lovely doctor. Except he then assumed I apparently knew EVERYTHING about doctoring because he took out his otoscope and his mouth-scope-thingy and his nose-scope-thingy and was like, "Blah blah blah," and I was like, "FUCK, SHUT UP. I JUST FOUND OUT WHAT A LIVER IS."

And then he was all, "So, did you have any ear problems as a kid?" and I was all, "No... I think I had an ear infection when I was little but that was it," then he was all, "Any otitis media?" and I was like, "Fuck, shut up. Am I in an NS exam? No."

I exaggerate. He was actually a really nice doctor.

I waited 20 minutes for the nurse to syringe my ear which basically involved her spurting warm water into my ear to flush out the crap and debris. It was AMAZING. It was like there was an ocean in my ear. It was like it was spurting all over my brain because it felt like water was coming out of my eye too. I wish the nurse had shown me my ear-debris because I did a little research before I went and apparently it's super gross and glorious. I'm pretty cut I didn't get to experience that phenomena.

It was FANTASTIC. I recommend EVERYONE get an ear syringe. Don't let the name dissuade you; you don't actually have someone stick a syringe in your ear.

J