GETTING UP MY DANDER

Oh the joy of being a Senior Citizen ! If we're going to live longer and have to put up with all the aches and pains and loss of dignity that "older" age brings than there damn well better be some perks and getting up our dander is one of those perks. You wonder why "Seniors" are so damn nasty, well try living with knees that hurt like hell so you can't stand or walk and hemorrhoids that won't let you sit comfortably for more than two seconds so you don't know whether to sit or stand. It seems that laying down is the only position you are comfortable in but the effort of getting in to or out of that position takes way too long so you really don't want to go there either. The effort of getting comfortable is so strenuous that you are so focused on the fact that nothing hurts so when someone breaks that focus to ask you something you just want to punch them in the face.

Add to all this A PROBLEM. Any problem . . . a hangnail, a tooth ache, an ear ache. Now you have to go to a specialist that is going to zero in on that one little area of your body that is giving you grief above and beyond all the little every day crap that you are putting up with. We've got the knees under control, the hemorrhoids are behaving, the feet are happy for the moment, the teeth have been cleaned, the skin has had it's yearly once over . . . all systems GO . . . except for the stupid ears that will NOT stop clogging up with gunk on the inside. No wax, clean as a whistle on the outside but something is going on in my sinuses causing them to manufacture massive amounts of GUNK. For some reason since Grey shared her head cold with me over a month ago I have not been able to get my head to stop producing what ever the hell it is producing and sending into my sinus, nose and throat. i wake up 20 time a night clearing my throat, coughing and hacking. I have been to my GP three times and he says there is NOTHING he can do. (HUM?)  I have tried nasal spray, allergy pills, decongestants, and Musinex. NOTHING ! And so on Friday I went to a new ENT at the recommendation of my GP.  This was to be the last hope. The final frontier. My Savior.  SHE TOLD ME I HAD NERVE DAMAGE AND TRIED TO SELL ME HEARING AIDS !!   That got my dander up !!!  In spite of the fact that every time I swallow my ears crackle this woman doctor ( QUACK QUACK QUACK!) insisted my ears were clear and i had nerve damage and that was why I can not hear.  I can feel the fluid flow from one tube to another when I lay on my side and turn over and yet she insists my ears are clear.!  She never looked in my sinuses. (QUACK QUACK QUACK) I kept saying, "But my ears are crackling!" and she kept saying, "Well, I don't know about that but you need hearing aids." I was so FREAKING PISSED. I tore up her card, scratched her name out of my phone book and am spreading bad bad karma about her to all I meet.

Don't mess with a hurtin' Senior Citizen.  I'll call my old EN tomorrow and see what he has to say.  I do think a month and a half is a bit long to be dealing with this nonsense.