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Foreign Body?
 
Here’s a great excuse for not getting any work done: foreign body in ear. When I went to the doctor this morning to tell him about my suspicions regarding a foreign body, I asked him if he knew the novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin which started, of course, with the gruesome extraction of a foreign body from a man’s ear. He hadn’t read the book, which is probably just as well as it meant that he did not have visions of decades old peas lodged beside an eardrum. My own “F/B”, or foreign body, is a piece of PVC from the sand school in which I fell on Saturday. Okay, not fell. Was dramatically dumped onto the ground by my angry mare who lets her opinions be known. On Saturday, her opinion was that I was either rushing her or not sufficiently taking into consideration her feelings on a number of matters. Hence, I got bucked off.

I haven’t been bucked off in many years so the feeling was relatively new. The funny thing was that when I was lying on the stretcher in the emergency room having everything looked over, I mentioned my ear felt all wrong. In the hospital emergency room, a place in which bleeding and vomiting and mostly drunk people required all sorts of immediate care, the ear didn't really get any attention. Anyway, at that point I couldn’t even walk so who cared about the ear. I didn't pay attention for very long to my own complaint, so busy was I trying to discern whether the crazy patient on the other side of the thins screen was mobile enough to come through to my side. Now, of course, things are different. I have managed to heal well enough in the peace and quiet of my own household that a “funny ear” really matters. A quick trip to the GP and I discover I have something stuck in my ear. So, now I am off to the hospital to have the ENT people look at it. Not looking forward to this, but at least it is not going to be as bad as the extraordinary home surgery visited upon Dr. Iannis’ patient in the opening chapter of Louis de Bernieres' novel.
 
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | 13:02:10
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Update on the "FB" is that eventually, after 4 different attempts by medical professionals, I am no longer inhabited by a foreign body. But boy, oh boy, does my ear hurt!
 
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | 22:43:03
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