Ears and the things that can go wrong with them.
DrewH on Aug 6th 2008
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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