I'm home between shows, and I stopped and bought a nasal wash squeeze bottle and used that to blast warm saline solution into my ear. Two big chunks of wax, the size of a marble (each!) came out.

But more importantly, I CAN HEAR!

Seriously, there is nothing sadder and more pathetic than a sound engineer who can't hear.

Yay, Sean!!

Yay! My brother gets wax like that. You probably need to put drops in from time to time to prevent it from building up again. Hearing is a very good thing.

Yeah, clearing out the right ear has made clear that I should probably use the kit to clean out the left ear now. I can hear out of it, but there's such a big difference between the two ears now that it's clear there's a bit of buildup in the left one.

I want to run around screaming at the top of my lungs that I CAN HEAR! You have no idea how stressful trying to mix the last two shows has been, and just how unhappy I've been for the last almost twenty-four hours.

You may find the world a bit noisy for a couple days.

Glad to see you've found something that works.

Also, coming out of this experience, I am now utterly convinced that our hearing has "handedness", just as our vision does (were those archery blog posts that mention eye-handedness posted in here?).

Also, I now know that I am right-eared. My left ear being slightly clogged does not distress me anywhere near as much as having my right ear clogged did. Apparently I use my right ear for discrete (did I use the right "discrete"?) listening.

Yes, unless you were eavesdropping.