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Liz and I went out to the Lakeside Icehouse at Bryan Lake saturday night with some friends.  We saw Hayes Carll perform.  It was a very nice evening.  Liz and I got there about 7 PM.  Sat down with a bucket of beer and a couple burgers on the back deck and enjoyed the fresh air and the sunset.  The boat ramp is right next to the Icehouse and we had some fun watching a few of the boaters try and get out of the water.  Some really nice trucks were having traction problems on the ramp.  Normally don’t see that too often.  Saw a brand new Chevy Silverado spin the rear tires all the way up the ramp.  Saw a Pontiac Aztec almost submerge itself trying to pull a couple wave runners out.  Even saw a really nice party barge almost not get out of the water.  It was a Continue Reading »

I had my follow up visit with Dr. Simon this afternoon. (see my previous ears post) All in all, very good news.  I’ve been using ear drops for the last two weeks and I also took a steroid called Methylprednisolone.  The drops were for an ear infection and the steriod was to reduce inflamation in my ear that was causing some minor pain.

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Liz wanted me to post up Sarah singing the song from Enchanted as well.

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So my ear started bleeding.  My left ear if you want to know.  Bright red blood, not gushing or anything.  Took a few hours to stop.  Happened the day of my wisdom tooth surgery.  Oral surgeon was very surprised by that.  There is no connection between the surgery and my ear.  Anyway, the bleeding stopped and there wasn’t any pain in my ear.  Fast forward to Friday.  I have a dark red and brown, smelly discharge from my ear.  Only in the morning.  Still no pain.  Time to go see the doc.

Got an appointment on Tuesday for the family practitioner and he takes a look and can’t see anything because of the large mass of ear wax and whatever in my ear.  He gets whatever little scoopula he was using and some magnifing specs and starts to delicately clean out my ear canal.  He says the minute he touched the mass, it started bleeding.  It also began to cause me immense pain.  He immediately referred me to the ENT which happened to be Dr. Simon who did Sarah’s surgery a while back (adenoids and tonsils).  Dr. Simon happened to be free that afternoon and agreed to see me.  He also has a more specialized device for sucking the crap out a person’s ear canal.  I had my right ear cleaned out while I was there.  Anyway, Dr. Simon began the process of cleaning out my ear and while I don’t know what all he took out, it wasn’t pretty that’s for sure.  It was also very, very painful.

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