Cerumen impaction. Say WHAT?! Speak-UP!!!!

Second time in three years.. and two ears!!


I have been deaf in one ear for nearly a week. Yesterday I just managed to sort of dissolve/scrape enough disgusting black-brown muck out of my right ear to HEAR with it again!!

Not as bad as two years ago when my left ear blocked up. I already have hearing loss in the right one - I was effectively deaf for about a week.


Something to look forward to as I get older?

It just gives you a bit of the taste of things to come. Getting older can involve your ears ringing all the time on top of not hearing and so having to say what? a lot of the time.

Or not. But then, something else new and exciting will happen.

Not necessarily, Mr. Stillwater. I doubt that it is age related at all, although it could be for some. Both of my children have had Cerumen Impaction troubles since they were both small and still do today, and they are 25 and 22.

I used to take them into the doctor and have their ears "flushed" about once a year or when they told me they could feel the plugging up effect started to interfere with their hearing. Now, they pretty much use a combination of warmed oil, hydrogen peroxide and a small little ball syringe to do their own flushing.

For whatever reason (the doc didn't even know) some peoples ear wax flows in the natural outward movement and others, like you and my kids, the wax flows inward.

It's an annoying pain in the butt quirk, but I don't think there is anything that can actually prevent it from happening over and over.

I don't think he thought that, Lady, more that he got a clue of how being deaf can feel.

Mybad. Listen to osso, Mr. Stillwater and ignore that man behind the curtain!

I was just going to say, Cerulean blue?

Better than Soylent Green!


Hey, I emphasise BIG TIME with the hearing impaired - just don't plan on being one! I still have, like.... two decades to explain to my girls just how much better my collection of vintage Blue Note jazz is than today's pop!!*






*qualification - just saw a 'Jessica Simpson' singing up a storm in the minimum amount of clothing possible - you would think that those royalties would let her dress in a bit more than a skimpy bikini, wouldn't cha?

Have you been pouring dust in yer ears?

What?? WHAT!?! Speak up young lady!!

Well....... sh*t!!


Left ear BLOCKED!!



Deaf!*



AGAIN!!



*hearing impaired.... sorry to all those A2Kers I may have offended. My bad!