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I have a boil in my ear.

  
 
Cat Chant
18:50 / 17.12.02
Seriously. A boil. In my ear. What the fuck is up with that? I trot off to the doctor assuming I have some sort of respectable type infection, and it turns out that the reason I can't hear anything and my ear hurts is because, as I have mentioned,

I have a boil in my ear.

I mean, what is this, the Bible?
 
 
bitchiekittie
18:59 / 17.12.02
I have eczema in my ear. in, not on.

will they lance it, pick it, poke it, leave it be?

much freakish sympathy to you
 
 
Mourne Kransky
19:09 / 17.12.02
Yup, God is clearly testing you, Deva. This is what comes of trying to prove that man is a monkey, the Creationists have cursed you. Now it has been diagnosed, hope the treatment's quick and not too messy... Sounds bloody painful though.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:12 / 17.12.02
A boil is an infected hair follicle (sp? Can't be arsed to find the dictionary). There is hair in ears. Ergo boil potential, even in the most scrupulously clean of pink'n'sell-likes.

Sounds ouchy. You have my symapthies.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
19:34 / 17.12.02
How are they going to get rid of it? Is it going to be messy or will it involve some strange and obscure course of drugs that they don't reveal to us because they like things exploding and it gives them something to laugh about?

Well whatever they do I hope they do it quickly, cleanly and entirely painlessly and that you forget all about it in a flash of minor amnesia and actually never had a boil in your ear!
 
 
w1rebaby
20:59 / 17.12.02
I mean, what is this, the Bible?

Better than having a locust in your ear.
 
 
Cat Chant
22:02 / 17.12.02
Drugs are the answer to a boil in the ear. Praise the Lord for antibiotics. (And while you're listening, Lord, I take it all back about the monkeys. Both antibiotics and the creation of Adam were good work! Keep it up!)

But if it doesn't clear up in a couple of days I have to go back to the doctor, presumably for lancing fun. (And not Lancing fun, either, which if I recall correctly would at least teach me something about public-school rituals which I could use in Hogwarts fic.)
 
 
_pin
22:41 / 17.12.02
Oooh. Painy. You poor dear.

Could you stand next to mysoginists on the bus and try to infect their ear thru proximity to yrs? That'd be kinda cool...
 
 
Persephone
01:31 / 18.12.02
Better than having a locust in your ear.

Or someone's firstborn son...
 
 
bio k9
07:13 / 18.12.02
Worst of all is having a burning bush.
 
 
Cat Chant
07:40 / 18.12.02
In your ear, or just in general?

Pin, your suggestion is unworthy of your kind nature, but I shall take it up nonetheless. Hee hee.
 
 
bio k9
07:53 / 18.12.02
Just in general.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
08:34 / 18.12.02
Sounds mingin'. You have my sympathy. I have some kind of thing or other fucked with one of my eyes at the moment, but it's not painful. Just fucking irritating. I only realised yesterday that I'm not just prone to getting lashes in my eyes every day for three weeks, and that it's something fucked with the lid. Which also sucks. But not on boil level.

Maybe if you kill a chicken and paint an X in its blood over your door, these Old Testament manifestations will pass on and get your (hopefully annoying, otherwise it's just mean) neighbour instead?
 
 
Cat Chant
19:12 / 18.12.02
Hah. All is explained. According to my friend who is a nurse, this is because I had my hair cut and a tiny piece of hair got into my ear and has now formed a boil.

I am now, on her instructions, sitting with a hot-water-bottle against my ear hoping to draw out the pus in order to avoid lancing.

I will be sure to keep you all up to date on the progress of my boil. And on whether I ever have my hair cut ever again. Who knew it was so dangerous?

(At least I am Samson, though, not Job.)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:37 / 18.12.02
a tiny piece of hair got into my ear and has now formed a boil.

Arrgh! I get bits of hair in my ears every time I shave my head-- I'm afraid now. I'm gonna have to wear earplugs in the shower. Argh.
 
 
bitchiekittie
19:53 / 18.12.02
Im scared, too - little hairs end up all down my neck and all over my ears and cheeks when I get a cut.
 
 
Cat Chant
20:16 / 18.12.02
Mordant, I used to shave my head & never got a boil in my ear in those days... possibly it is God's judgement on me for single-handedly trying to bring the pudding-bowl or "Velma" cut back into fashion.

No pus has been drawn out yet and I have pulled a muscle in my shoulder trying to keep this fucking hot-water-bottle next to my ear. I can't understand why my body thinks that a boil is a better thing to have in one's ear than a tiny piece of hair.
 
 
Gary Lactus
08:09 / 19.12.02
Fondest Sympathies. I once had a boil on my earlobe, well, it was more of an abcess really. At the time I was working in a job where the only way I could keep sane was to isten to music on big headphones. When the abcess became too large and painful to wear these 'phones, I trotted up to the A&E of the hospital. I felt like such a dick head, surrounded by people with bits of car or road stuck in their heads and there's me with little more than a case of big ear. In the end they gave me a local anaesthetic, cut my lobe open with a scalpel and sqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezed. The staff all agreed that squeezing abcesses was one of the best parts of their job, so I was glad someone was enjoying themselves. Extatic relief followed. Hang in there, Deva. Life isn't like this forever.
 
 
Gary Lactus
08:28 / 19.12.02
Shit, that talk of head shaving made me remember another story. Are you sitting comfortably? When I was 18 I had long hair that fell on my face and made spots like fucking Avril Leviiiiygne. This one spot inbettween my eyebrows grew like a bastard into the biggest boil, it looked like it was pushing my eyes further apart. Went to the doctor:
"What can I do, doctor?"
"Well, Fraely, whatever you do don't squeeze it for behind that boil lies your ovicular cavity and behind that lies the brain. If the ovicular cavity gets infected you may end up with brain damage or death."
"So...what can I do, doctor?"
"Well, Fraely, the first thing a dermatologist will tell you is 'get your hair cut'."

I shaved my head later that day and kept it that way for 5 years. Now you tell me it promotes boils! NO WIN. Shit.
 
  
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