Good evening y'all,
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Tomorrow it's my turn to visit the doctor - an ear/nose/throat specialist to be exact. He going to blast the wax out of my ears with a fire hose...well maybe not a fire hose, but it sure hurts like h***. I'm both apprehensive and cynical about it: He says that I need to get this done every 6 months, because I'm one of that 1% of the population whose ear canal doesn't slope straight downward, but is like an inverted 'V'; instead of falling completely out, half of the wax my ear generates falls back inward onto the eardrum. When this guy worked on me back in March, I hadn't had this procedure done in over 25 years. [That's probably why the treatment was so painful.] But every six months!? C'mon, that seems like overkill! Sure wish I could get a second opinion, but it seems like all the ENT docs in my area work for this one mega-practice that dominates the region - can't expect much objectivity from them!