Speak Up Sonny!

I just wanted to tell you about my random hearing issues. Like 3 years ago I was cleaning out my ear with a Qtip and I think I went a little overboard in my right ear. I kind of love the feeling of scratching your ear with a Qtip and I must have gone a little too far or something because all the sudden it was plugged. I thought I'd be able to unplug it right away but no such luck. It stayed plugged for a day or so and then unplugged itself but for 3 years everytime I laid on my right side it would plug again. I kind of got a system down where I knew how to unplug it after I woke up so one night it plugged while I was laying on our couch so I did my usual to get it to unplug. It wasn't having it. It was plugged all night and I was going crazy. That was a Saturday. It was plugged all Sunday and I thought I was going to lose my mind. I knew I needed to stop trying to unplug it because I was just irritating it more but I couldn't stop bugging it. So I stopped touching it Sunday afternoon. It was plugged until Thursday night. Can you talk about torture? I'm pretty sure we all take our hearing for granted. At work I had to keep asking patients "I'm sorry what?" I got several dirty looks probably because I would turn my head to the right so I could hear with my left ear. Who knows what they thought I was doing. I'm sure I looked like an idiot. Thursday night I had just showered and was about to go to bed. I had had a towel around my hair so it had been over my ear also. When I shook my hair out I stuck my finger in my ear for just a second and kind of snapped it upward to get the water out and whatever and my ear unplugged. I held my breath thinking it was just going to replug itself and I wanted to enjoy the 10 seconds I had. When it didn't replug I yelled "DAVID!" He was sitting right outside our bathroom at the computer so there was no need to yell but I was so excited I couldn't stand it. When I heard my own voice I scared myself with how loud I was. All the sudden I was so thrown off. Sound was loud and kind of echoing. I felt like I had just gotten hearing for the first time. The sound of my toothbrush and the water in the sink was blowing my mind. I wondered if in 5 days I had just really become accustomed to only being able to hear out one ear or what but I think I've figured it out. My ear doesn't plug anymore when I lay on my right side. I have no idea what I did but I guess for 3 years my ear was always kind of plugged. When it unplugged that glorious Thursday night it like completely unplugged. It took a couple days for me to get used to hearing with 2 ears, seriously! haha It also made me wonder how many people I had been screaming at because I realized how freaking loud I am. Sorry if I screamed at you in the last 3 years without knowing it, I didn't know what I was doing :]