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Some of you are aware that I have been battling sinus infections as well as ear infections now for the last 2 1/2 months. While the pain from the ear infections has subsided, I've been unable to hear out of my right ear for the past couple of weeks. Fearing that putting things off any longer may lead to permanent hearing damage or loss, I finally put a call into an ENT Specialist & paid him a visit on Monday. He took a look & said that my ear was definitely infected & was rather bad. I had heard talk about some tube/probe that might go up my nose but I was thinking that perhaps that would not applicable to me. I guessed wrong. If you've had the procedure done, you understand where I am coming from in saying that it's miserable. If you don't recall it than you certainly have not had it because I can promise you that it is not forgettable. As this tube continued to climb into my nasal cavities, tears continued to pour from my eyes. I was NOT having a good time-AT ALL! Apparently, my right nasal cavity is so small that he could not even get a good look at it (which made me question why the heck he kept that tube up there if he couldn't see!). I owe that (my cavity being small) to my crooked nose thanks to hitting the concrete as a toddler after falling out of a shopping cart (I cracked my skull & apparently my nose-something like that). He wrote out an antibiotic for a sinus infection, a prescription for a nasal spray as well as ear drops. He gave me information to make a saline solution to "irrigate" my nose 2-3 times a day. I must go this coming Monday for blood tests to see if I have allergies. I went this afternoon for a CT-Scan of my sinus cavities. I will return to the doc on March 3 & he will then go over the results of my CT-Scan with me, see if I am better & try to figure out what is going on. If I am not better, he will then send me to an audiologist for special hearing tests most likely. I'm grateful to not be in any pain but I am so tired of not being able to hear fully. I feel so bad when others try to speak to me & I have to have them repeat what they are saying again & again..& louder just so I can kind of hear them. I'm driving my mother nuts as we watch t.v. & I ask her to turn it up some more while she thinks it's plenty loud as it is. I will say, I'm feeling worn down though...quite tired. The past 2 nights I've barely been able to make it through the t.v. programs I've been watching (including the Mizzou basketball game!). Actually, I've fallen asleep through both. Thankfully, today was my day off work for the week & until leaving for my CT-Scan a bit ago, I've just stayed here at the house relaxing-even took a nap. I'm now in prayer that all of these costly medications help & that I'll soon be able to breathe & even more importantly, hear.