Tuesday, April 20, 2010

What Ails Ya

If having MSA wasn't enough, seems I also have tinnitus.  I have a constant wooshing noise in my left ear which is something like the sound you get when you hold a seashell to your ear; just louder and more like fingernails on a chalkboard, not rolling waves.  I guess that came about from an earache I suffered in my left ear when I was about 5 or 6.  As usual, I walked home from school on a particularly cold day.  By the time I reached my front door, I was doubled over with the worst piercing pain I had ever felt.  I had no way to relieve it as it was inside my head.  Fortunately my mother was home.  She had me lie on the couch.  She put a few drops of warmed (olive?) oil in my ear, gently inserted a cotton ball and within moments the pain had subsided so much I fell asleep.  I didn't wake until dinner and by then was all better.  Thanks mom!

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