{"id":871,"date":"2008-10-24T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=871"},"modified":"2008-10-24T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T00:36:20","slug":"what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/what\/","title":{"rendered":"What?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, as it turns out one of my eardrums is stuck in position with some kind of negative pressure.\u00a0 The same condition you’d get when you’re sitting on a plane coming in for a landing…you know that stuffiness feeling with some pressure discomfort?\u00a0 Well, that’s what one ear has felt like now for about 2 weeks.\u00a0 Doc says I might<\/em> need surgery to correct it but for now we’re going to try hydrocortizone ear drops and I have to do a CAT scan and audiogram to see if that reveals more about what’s going on.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to say for sure this is what I have (I know the dangers of self-diagnosis and believing everything I read online) but this sounds vaguely familiar to what the doctor was saying I had – http:\/\/www.earsite.com\/tumors\/cholesteatoma.html<\/a> Scary they put that under the category of a “tumor”\u00a0\u00a0 “It’s not a tumor!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

It’s definitely made me a bit grumpy and depressed lately.\u00a0 But I keep trying to remind myself there are people out there going through a lot more crap then this so I’m trying my best to cheer myself up. I don’t wanna be so overly dramatic about this, but I’m allowing myself a few days to just cope. A hug here and there is about the best medicine I have right now.<\/p>\n

On a positive note random noise doesn’t bother me as much when I sleep now because I can’t hear half of it. I’m sleeping like a baby, even the alarm isn’t as loud.<\/p>\n

I hope this is a temporary condition that will right itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, as it turns out one of my eardrums is stuck in position with some kind of negative pressure.\u00a0 The same condition you’d get when you’re sitting on a plane coming in for a landing…you know that stuffiness feeling with some pressure discomfort?\u00a0 Well, that’s what one ear has felt like now for about 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-hearing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}