My ear has been giving me a lot of trouble since last August. I got what I and several others thought was just swimmers ear, but it turned into so much more. When I returned from camp after two weeks of using 4 painrelievers every...I don't quite remember... 4 hours? The pain in my ear just reached such intensive levels that I was screaming for hours. I ended up calling my dad and had him drive me to a specialist in Mason City, where he then called it either a fungal infection or a bacterial infection. He really pulled out quite a lot of nasty stuff out of there. Upon arriving in Sioux Falls for school, I saw another specialist, and he pulled this great hunk, about the size of three garden peas and a white color, out of my ear, and I could hear well for the first time in weeks! You really don't understand the wonder of hearing until you've lost it and then gained it back.
To make a long story short, It has been bothering me off and on for almost a year now, and I'm quite sick of it. I had a bad flare up in February that just sealed the deal to see a real specialist, hence today's appointment. And it's now proven that I'm not crazy; there really is something wrong with it. There is a mystery pocket/flap in my ear, most likely formed my my childhood ear surgery, that has collected wax and things that are unable to get out naturally. Each time they get wet I end up getting another infection. I'm on drops (I swear, they're the 6th one I've tried) and If that doesn't work, I may have to have surgery to just make that inside canal of my ear smoothed out again. I pray that doesn't happen, but at least I can now prove that I was really, truely, having something wrong with my ear and not just complaining.
I'm getting up to return to camp in 6 hours, and more updates will come in. We've gone over new camp technology rules, so I need to get permission from people to mention thier names and such like. Yay being back to my craft room!!
Lindsay
To make a long story short, It has been bothering me off and on for almost a year now, and I'm quite sick of it. I had a bad flare up in February that just sealed the deal to see a real specialist, hence today's appointment. And it's now proven that I'm not crazy; there really is something wrong with it. There is a mystery pocket/flap in my ear, most likely formed my my childhood ear surgery, that has collected wax and things that are unable to get out naturally. Each time they get wet I end up getting another infection. I'm on drops (I swear, they're the 6th one I've tried) and If that doesn't work, I may have to have surgery to just make that inside canal of my ear smoothed out again. I pray that doesn't happen, but at least I can now prove that I was really, truely, having something wrong with my ear and not just complaining.
I'm getting up to return to camp in 6 hours, and more updates will come in. We've gone over new camp technology rules, so I need to get permission from people to mention thier names and such like. Yay being back to my craft room!!
Lindsay
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