A few months before I retired, I found myself squinting with pain whenever someone talked loudly to me during an interview. My ears ached. I finally accepted that I had developed an ear infection secondary to a sinus infection. I walked around with it for a few days, then I ran into a new client who could really project her voice and I was just about in tears. I stopped into the local medical clinic and stated that I had developed an ear infection and would like it treated.
The nurse asked me several questions. She asked me if I felt burning. I said yes, if someone was talking loudly it was quite painful, and would she please whisper? She asked about itching and discharge. I said no, but started looking at her kind of funny. I told her loud noises bothered me, and she gave me the fish eye. We seemed to be having trouble communicating. How complicated can it be to diagnose the symptoms of an ear infection? Her questions got stranger and stranger and my answers seem to elicit confusion from her.
Eventually she handed me a little plastic cup. After a minute of thought, I started howling with laughter. I handed her back the cup and reiterated, EAR infection. Not URINE infection. We had a great laugh! The doctors had a great laugh. All my friends who have heard it have been laughing. Yeah, at my expense!
I almost peed in a cup to diagnose an ear infection.
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That's like the time the dentist checked me for a hernia, making me turn my head and cough, befor extracting a molar.
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