耳の問題

There is a first for everything, they say... except for things like you never do, but well, there is a potential first, so .... anyways. Last Friday I woke up with a warm, painful, pressure sensation in my right ear. Later the pain started to spread to the jaw also, making it difficult to eat. Monday, the pain was going, but it felt like there were water in my ear that would not get out, and I could not hear properly. Finally, yesterday I got too annoyed, and did a first. Visit a Japanese clinic. First I went to Sony's own doctor, but got transferred to proper ear clinic instead. The doctor looked in my ear, and said, we need to do hearing test. Okay said Emma. The measure how flexible your eardrum is test, worked fine on left ear... but was not good at all on right. And it was concluded that fluid was present in my inner ear... We would like to remove it, the doctor said... can it go away by itself, Emma asked. Very difficult, doctor said. So, how do you plan to remove it then, Emma asked. We will make a small hole in your eardrum, doctor said. Sounds painful, Emma said. Not painful, doctor said. We have a very good local anesthetics method, but it takes about 45 min. (at that point I have already been away from the office 4 hours).

The method involves cooling gel, some type of foam, an electrode down your ear, another attached to your arm with a wet napkin in between... Some ionisation should do the wonder... I started thinking about why the hell I went to Japan in the first place. I'm not big on electricity, there is nothing fun about it. On the other hand, ear drum piercing with out pain relief is probably even less fun. However, with pain relief it was pretty entertaining. I heard the needle go trough, and then cluck cluck cluck... sound when the fluid slipped out. I laughed a bit... I got a bag full of drugs and a "come visit tomorrow again". I'm currently doing the antihistamines, the "hanamizu" (nose water) reduction tablets and the ear drops.

And since it was so much fun yesterday, I went today again. There is this system where you book on the Internet and get a queue number, and an approx. time for your appointment. It was fun. What wasn't that fun was then they vacuumed out even more fluid, I guess my ear drum still had a hole in it. Seems like there is a little bit more fluid inside, but mostly outer ear that is swollen now, because if I pull it, I can hear again... :) So hopefully, the ear drum is not completely messed up, and the outer ear will get a grip and go back to its normal size soon. And the drum should heal with in a few weeks. However, the ear drop probably went through the system, since I felt them in my throat.

And no need to feel super bad for me, no fever, and it does not hurt, just a bit uncomfortable. But I needed a little "gift" since I'm not feeling well... so here it is... it will ionize my hair instead of ear...