Uncle Traveling Matt: Left [ear] Behind

July 5, 2005

Left [ear] Behind

Well my day started off total shit today. I was rather hungover from the 4th of July last night, which was good, btw—was at Mike's girlfriend's brother's place; drinking, darts, talkin' cars and lots of illegal fireworks! :) So I was a total write-off to do any work today, so thought stuff-it I'll go lie to the beach and feel sick, rather than feel sick at the apartment.

So I got down on the sand, went to take out my ear canal phones and the left one came out sans-the freakin' rubber sleeve, which was still inside the far end of my ear canal! ug. So I try to get it out with my finger and manage to push it even further into my ear and hard up against my ear-drum, which promptly started to ache. Plus I was completely deaf in this ear at this point, surprising how much of a difference loosing one ear makes, my hearing was severely fucked up.

I've met a number of deaf people in my travels here, and am going to add learning sign language to my to-do list after this, so next time they try and ask me a question I can give them a useful answer—being deaf would be totally arse. So back to the story, I had to go half way back to Westwood to find a pharmacy to buy long needle nose tweezers to extract this rubber plug thing from my ear! So I was 2.5hr late getting to the beach proper, and still hungover when I got there!

I should of stayed at home, really.

Posted by Matt at July 5, 2005 8:57 PM

Fraggle Chitter Chatter

FYI miscellaneous items in ears, like that, or poorly designed cotton bud tips, or wayward creepy crawlies looking for a warm place to sleep (part of the perils of sleeping on the ground in the outback etc), or other strange foreign objects, can usually be safely and easily removed by slowly pouring body temp oil (canola, olive or plain vege depending on your personal pref!lol) into your ear til the thingie you got stuck in there floats to the top!
...and they call me the Oracle of All Knowledge and Wisdom (in training) !!! ;-))

Posted by: Red Fraggle at November 29, 2006 8:35 PM