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I had a very frightening experience today, this morning.
I woke up and was deaf in one ear.
I take my hearing very seriously, because sound and sight are my personal most important senses, in that order. I get along alright if I'm blind, most of the things I do are quite routine as it is. Wouldn't take too much to get even more routine-ified. Not to mention there're types of surgery (expensive, crap) now that can fix blindness, which is even more effective if you're not blind from birth.
However, sound is my single most cherished sense. I like sound. Sure, I'll be distraught if I can't see. Oh noes! no more videogames! Oh well. I'll get along.
But if I can't listen to music, or even just cool sounds, I will be destroyed. I'd learn Sign Language and carry a pad-and-pencil for people who don't know it, but I would probably be the most depressed and sad that anyone has ever known me to be.
As it turns out, I'm not going deaf, it was just a blockage in my ear from earwax, which had been loosened up yesterday when Zito and I started our excersize regime and started swimming. The water had loosened the wax and caused it to redistribute itself - right over my eardrums. I went to sleep, and overnight it all hardened and BAM! Instant deafness.
Went to Centra Care, and they 'irrigated' (read - took a big pipe/syringe filled with hot water and squirted it in my ear) my ear. It was really weird. It's like someone had let a worm waddle around in warm water then dropped it in your ear so it could squirm its way back out. It was one of those 'whowhwghgh' moments. And by 'whowhwghgh' I mean 'shudder and make a weird sound'.
Ended up with the day off from work. Going to SCC to fix the dates on my test sheet. WILL BE ROXORING THE WORLD WITH MY GAWDLY ANIMATIONS LATERZ!
I woke up and was deaf in one ear.
I take my hearing very seriously, because sound and sight are my personal most important senses, in that order. I get along alright if I'm blind, most of the things I do are quite routine as it is. Wouldn't take too much to get even more routine-ified. Not to mention there're types of surgery (expensive, crap) now that can fix blindness, which is even more effective if you're not blind from birth.
However, sound is my single most cherished sense. I like sound. Sure, I'll be distraught if I can't see. Oh noes! no more videogames! Oh well. I'll get along.
But if I can't listen to music, or even just cool sounds, I will be destroyed. I'd learn Sign Language and carry a pad-and-pencil for people who don't know it, but I would probably be the most depressed and sad that anyone has ever known me to be.
As it turns out, I'm not going deaf, it was just a blockage in my ear from earwax, which had been loosened up yesterday when Zito and I started our excersize regime and started swimming. The water had loosened the wax and caused it to redistribute itself - right over my eardrums. I went to sleep, and overnight it all hardened and BAM! Instant deafness.
Went to Centra Care, and they 'irrigated' (read - took a big pipe/syringe filled with hot water and squirted it in my ear) my ear. It was really weird. It's like someone had let a worm waddle around in warm water then dropped it in your ear so it could squirm its way back out. It was one of those 'whowhwghgh' moments. And by 'whowhwghgh' I mean 'shudder and make a weird sound'.
Ended up with the day off from work. Going to SCC to fix the dates on my test sheet. WILL BE ROXORING THE WORLD WITH MY GAWDLY ANIMATIONS LATERZ!