There are a couple of issues causing me a bit of, shall we say, high anxiety this week.
First is this fucking ear wax problem. Right on the heels of the dental filling issue, I have this ear canal blockage from my stupid chronic sticky earwax again clogging up my ears, especially the right, and causing me to make an emergency appointment to get an irrigation at my PCP Gonzalez three weeks ago. Well the very young nurse does a very nervous try (proly her first time) and, of course, fails, even throwing in a good dose of pain in the mix (is that supposed to happen?). So it's off to the ENT I go, but being the cowpatch pimple town on the ass of Florida (or should I say the oozing wart town on the flaccid dick of this penile-shaped state?) Sebring's apparently only ENT makes his tour here from his other offices across the region two weeks later. So I patiently wait with half my hearing until my appointment with him last week. In the meantime, of course, my ears work out a bit of a compromise with the wax in them and they give me a pinhole of relief and I have about 95% hearing back. The reviews for this doc aren't great but I watch a video of a successful procedure...
Oh fuck, Shameless Syndrome you bastard! I'm just realizing I wrote about all of this already in this post.
Well, anyway, to follow up then, no, the micro suction or whatever the fuck you call it DIDN'T cure shit! It made everything much worse. They claimed they got the wax out and it did feel like it at the time but they also caused pain when using the curial to grab the wax chunks, I guess, discomfort with the high-pitched noise of the vacuum and now not only is my tinnitus not cured, it's MUCH worse and my hearing has gone from 95% to maybe 80% or less! They even did a hearing test and confirmed I have hearing loss, but it was done after the procedure so how are we to compare to any baseline? I haven't had a hearing test done in like a couple decades at least before now.
Do I go back to that sketchy practice that does hearing tests minutes after putting a high-decibel device in your ears and says "We could talk about fitting you for hearing aids..." and answers bad Google reviews with this carbon copy response EVERY TIME?: "We uphold rigorous service standards and deeply regret falling short of meeting those standards for you." Sure they'd tell me if they fucked me up. "Yes Mr. C., we screwed up. Our bad. Feel free to sue us for malpractice." That's a thing, right?
And while I'm screwed up over all this, this morning, checking how my IRA portfolio has been doing, I get this result:
What the actual FUCK! Again, I'm no math wiz, but how on Earth is this even possible? According to this, I lost over $152 Grand in one day! But I only had $44K, so do I now owe Charles Schwab $107,953.98?!
Nurse Diesel, please report to the Lakeview Mobile Village Asylum. Orderly NoFu will assist in holding the patient down while you jab him with a big ol' shot of Thorazine.