Tammy be careful with sticking stuff in your ear. Oh, I just remembered. I had a headache at work. I went to Kaiser. They put a syringe in my ear to clean it out. That thing hurt. The next day I went back because my head still hurt. They did it again but this time they kept me over night. The next morning my friend Syd came in to see me. She was talking. I could see her mouth moving but no sound. There was a man cleaning. I heard nothing. Syd went to tell the desk I couldn’t hear. I had lost my hearing. I was deaf. Two years went past. I tried hearing aids, nothing. The doctors at Kaiser put me through all kind of hearing test. My mom flew out to California from Florida to see about me. She had me to lie down. She went outside and filled one of my socks with dirt. She heated it in the microwave. I waited. She came to me and poured oil into my ear and put the heated sock on it. We waited. She had me turn over and poured oil in the other ear. Put the sock on it. We waited. I heard her humming like mom did. I jumped up and hugged her like crazy and laughed. I hadn’t heard anything in two years. Mom were humming I asked her. Yep, she said. I heard you I yelled. I went back to the doctor who asked, what did you do? “We thought you would never hear again.” What did you do, he kept asking me. I didn’t do anything but my mom did something, I told him. Mister Howard I don’t know what she did but you go back and tell your mother to keep doing it. I asked Mom where did she get this and she told me that it was something that the old folk did way back in the countryside of Georgia when a child had ear ache. “Lord, dem ole folks ain’t had no money so dah had to do something to fix day chullans.” After taking care of her son Mom went home. I got me a pair of earring aids and boy I could hear again. In public places I wear them. Today I live in the plane route for the airport. For many years I’d looked up to see the lights of the plane passing overhead. Without my hearing aids no sound. About a month ago I heard that dog gone plane. The next day I heard the raindrops beating on my window. I went to the beach and I heard the waves coming into shore. I can snap my fingers and hear them. My friends and everybody, everybody, you don’t miss those little things until you don’t have them. My doctor last week told me she didn’t need to yell at me anymore. My earring is coming back. I believe the syringes damaged my ear drums at Kaiser. Syd, you remember hahaha? So Tammy be careful what you put in your ears. Lee
Posted on: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:52:38 +0000
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