My wonderful, and amazing, woman passed along the word from her Dr. Dad strongly suggesting that I see a certain ear, nose, throat specialist soon. I took the word, and made the appointment (last week) for today at 11:20am. It was only about 5 minutes away, and when we got there I found myself sitting in a lobby full of people over 50. Felt right at home.
I was finally called in "early" around 12pm, and proceeded through the short hall on the left then thru the door on the right finally to find myself resting in a full-support chair in the middle of the room. Sitting there, I thought that it was one of those restraining chairs that I'd eventually find myself strapped into. It honestly reminded me of the game F.E.A.R.
A young doc comes in and says some muffled words to me as I look at him blankly, wondering when mom will tell him I'm practically deaf. After he checks my...ear, nose, and throat, he says some words to mom and walks out.
[Side Note] - People find that when they talk to me, I am not looking at their eyes, but their lips in hopes of catching a spit of what they just said.
I look over at mom and ask her if anything good happened, and I was complimented with a, "Yes" and said that they (two docs) were going to come back in and clean my ears out then eventually check my hearing, and prescribe meds and whatnot. "Okay" is all I can really utter.
Next, an older more experienced-looking doctor enters, with him following is the young doc and a nurse. It's the doc I came to see. He does the same thing and starts muffling to me as if I don't have a problem and I can actually hear him. He speaks up and asks me what I can hear, and I tell him I can hear constant ringing and my heartbeat beating like a drum, with pressure...like my ears will explode because of my heartbeat. They then proceed to analyze my ears, prodding me with long skinny instruments, and start cleaning them. Painful, yes, but I wonder what it may have felt like had I not decided to pop a Tylenol w/Codene before my appointment?
Funny, because this morning I was feeling good enough to go off the pain meds, but realized I was going to the doc and they may poke around in there so I popped one around 11, and It's a good thing I wasn't called in till noon so that the pain meds could work by then.
That's a US quarter leaning against the bottle
The doc gave us three 1.5mL bottles of CIPRO DEX ear drops to take home. They're worth $100 per miniscule bottle. He said I have to take 3 drops in each ear, 3 times daily for 7 days. Then he prescribed two others, a by-mouth CIPRO pill and a larger pill that requires I avoid sunlight. The CIPRO pills I take gradually less each day or so, starting with 3 as a first dosage today. The big pill that tells me to avoid sunlight, is a steroid apparently. Take with lots of water.
So I have another appointment, 50% off as requested by the doc, on my wonderful, and amazing, woman's birthday,at 920am. Oh well.
Day 14
Well, I finally returned the Dinan performance chip in exchange of the correct one. Today, it came in and I installed it, tested it out. Hit centennial numbers very quickly.
Here's the Pioneer Premier (DEH-P510UB) receiver I ordered on eBay, new, just tonight. So, i'll finally be able to share some tunes this summer. :), I'll order the headlights later, they still work for now, lol. I nearly ordered the P410HD package that would have enabled me to hear HD Radio right out of the box, but the auction had ended by then, and I researched this model and came to like it more, especially finding it for a decent price ($172 [free ship]) whereas it runs $203+tax on Crutchfield.com so it's a good buy, with a warranty to boot.
My grandpa with his new Nikon D90, still one step ahead of me, in his element. We were having a grand 'ol time with the large family of mine and got some excellent photos. I love these photos of my grandpa, my still very active and smart grandpa. From the silver hair to the wrinkles and the grin of satisfaction, he shows so much definition in these photos. A very wise human being indeed.
Uh-oh, looks like someone leaked the "WORKPRINT" to this highly anticipated movie which comes to theaters May 1st. I half want to see the workprint, merely because of the kid in me that wants it first before the other kids on the block get it. Half don't wanna because I don't wanna ruin the movie for me, as I have heard that it doesn't have everything in it, and it's 14 minutes shorter, but still totaling 101min.
We're young. So, whenever I feel like it, we go out to Applebee's or wherever and get some dinna or cheap appetizers. But, the thing that always stays the same no matter where we go, is the drink. Coca-Cola with lime, please. Mm. Nothin' better than real Coke with fresh lime...which we really only had once, since I went across the street to get the lime that time.
After photography class today, I went to Manhattan Bagel and 'illed for a bit with a Jalepeno cheddar bagel pasted with hot cream cheese. Now that I think about cheddar and cream cheese, I'm so glad cream cheese isn't really cheese like cheddar is. Cuz that'd be kinda wierd, to have some spray cheese on your bagel. yuck.
The lady & I went to the ol' Regent Diner in Lakewood/Howell,NJ this past Sunday. It was nice. We had waffles and I had some extra eggs and sausage with mine. Tea was good.
That would be my 4,000th picture shot yesterday with my Sony Alpha, since I've had it in Sept 08. I'm shutter-happy. I assume, this camera won't poop out at 5 or 6 thousand pix like the other cameras I had before it. I never reached DSC7000 on any of my cameras, yet. I've gone through 5 cameras, and this Alpha is number six:
Real winter came late this year. March 1st and 2nd, and we get like 13inches of snow and nasty 10-degree wind-chills on the "Cemetary Hill" in Eatontown, NJ, as the little snot-nosed brats fly down the hill till their boogers freeze across their cheeks. Woo!
