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You might found this post a little bit sickening... You have been warned!
If I told you I've been sick this whole week would you believe? There's no reason not to isn't it? Trolol...
Yes, I've been sick like a dog for more than a week but I was way too ignorant that it getting worse. At first it was just a common flu; sneezing, coughing and all that. Then my left ear start ringing uncontrollably. I thought the ringing was caused by the flu. Sneezing too hard could make your ear rings, anyway. I had done some googling about ringing ear which is called Tinnitus, had done some treatment but the ringing wouldn't go away.
At that time I kept doing my routine activity though the ringing really annoyed me. I forced myself to come to some settle down meeting on Friday in which I became a committee. In result, the ringing in my left ear getting louder. I even got nausea (our ear somehow connected to the body-balancing part) because of the ringing ear. It seemed silly but that's what happened to me.
So I went to check my ear to an ENT (Ear-Nose-Throat) specialist on Saturday. Like I had predicted before, the doctor said that the ringing was caused by the flu I suffered. He did give me prescription but only to cure the influenza. On Sunday, the ringing still there but wasn't as loud as the other day. I took my noon medication and had some nap. When I got up, I feel like I had been drown--like my ear were full of water.
At this point I started to freak out. What if I'm going to be half-deaf all my life? What if I had to ask people to talk louder to me? What if I had to spent the rest of my college life sitting in the front seat so I could hear the lecture better? The most ridiculous thing I'd done was spending the night listening songs from my cellphone through its loud speaker in minimum volume. I did this to make sure my left ear were still functioning well.
As I woke up on Monday morning, the ear's condition were getting worse. It's like my left ear were torn separately from me and it were drowned in a lake full with cricket choir sang with bell chorus music. So loud, annoying and lunatic. Such a torment!
I went again to ENT specialist. Same hospital, different doctor. What happened next as I entered the room were so fast. I only remember sat in front of the doctor then she checked my ear, did something including flooding my ear canal with a lot of water, some suction-work around the hole, drying and voila! I can hear normally again.
What I heard from the doctor was shocking. She said that the cause of the ear-problem is fungi! How on earth did fungi can grow on my ear canal?! (FYI, I'm a hygienic person so I don't wanna be blame because of my shabbiness...)
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| A literally Cloud Ear Fungus, which resemble a lot with the ear and NOT THE ONE WHICH FOUND IN MY EAR |
This is the most unproductive week all my holiday. I didn't draw anything for my emotion research, I hadn't read the journals for the research proposal, missed many important meeting in campus because of fungi. The ringing somehow increasing the sense of laziness in me.
Well, at least I learn that fungi can grow in ear... gross... never heard of this before, not even in my science class or Biology text books...
