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I had the gentamicin injection this past Monday (the 23rd). That new ear tube I had put in a month ago? According to my doctor my ear drum “was spitting it back out.” And then he said something to the effect that my ear drum scares him, lol. So he pulled the tube out and there was still an opening to do the injection through. All that stuff where they say it is relatively painless? Yeah, they lie.

According to my doctor and some of the articles I’ve read, the bad reaction vertigo often doesn’t hit right away. My doctor said that his patients usually are okay for 7-10 days when the bad stuff hits and then lasts a few days. Some doctors think the cells are initially stunned and take a while to react, some doctors think it takes that long for the gentamicin to soak through and circulate through the inner ear. In any case, I’m on day 5 and the worst I felt was Monday night and that was mostly the pain from the treatment. I think I feel worse than I have the past few weeks, but I definitely haven’t had that big reaction vertigo yet. It’s like there is this time bomb inside me and I don’t know when it will go off. I want it to go off so I know the treatment works and I don’t have to have it again.

In the meantime I passed comps and am putting the finishing touches on my final project for the Flash class. It’s just sort of now starting to sink in that I’m almost done with school. I mean, really, totally done. Not three weeks to relax and it starts all over again, but done forever! Just think of all the things I’ll be able to do without school constantly hanging over my head.

I’ve done plenty of knitting when I’ve been too sick to do much else so I’ll post about that soon. Now, off to finish my project before this time bomb goes off.

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