Two big chunks of wax, the size of a marble (each!) came out.
It's amazing what size can get stuck in there! I can totally relate to this! I wear silicone earplugs to sleep every night so I have to be careful to clean my ears out lest the wax build up and I wind up in exactly the same situation.
Which is why I always have the drops and a squeeze bulb on hand.
There was one time when I was a kid and had a really bad earache, and I went to the doctor, and it turned out that I had in my ear a ball of wax nearly the size of a golf ball.
That happened to me when I was a kid. The doctor went in and took out this huge ball of was that was black and hard to the touch. It was gross.
I just thought that I smelled a faint skunk, which was common in San Diego but I don't recall here. Just realized that someone is clearly getting stoned. Go to hell, sinuses, I hate you. I know it's call "skunk weed" but I've never been confused what I was smelling before. There is not enough Sudafed in the world to not make me want to drill a hole in my skull and
maybe take out all of my teeth
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::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?).
Yeah, it isn't just manual dexterity that has dominant sides. Legs, eyes and ears also have dominant sides. I believe it is more common to have all four on the same side, but it is not universal. For instance, my right hand, leg, and eye are dominant, but for hearing my left ear wins. A therapist once told me that anyone with left side dominance in any of the four is at greater risk for addiction (this was in a group for obesity/food addiction).
Legs, eyes and ears also have dominant sides.
Evolution, it's awesome and, yet, weird.
That makes me wonder if there are also dominant sides for taste and smell but we just don't have any reason to notice it.
Wow. And now that Terriers sadness/bitterness sets in. Damn. It.
So did they turn or go straight?
When I took gymnastics classes as a kid, I always confused the coaches because the way of arranging my legs that felt natural to me was the left-handed way, but I'm right-handed. I do left-handed gymnastics, though. I can see better out of my right eye than out of my left, but my glasses mostly fix that.