About a week ago the hearing in my left ear went way south.  If I plugged my right ear, I could just barely hear anything out of my left ear.  Of course being a guy, I did the guy thing and said to myself…It’ll go away…..Today I went turkey hunting and with only one ear to hear with it was not really that fun.  Constant ringing in the left ear, no sounds on my left side at all, only on the right, and so I favored looking right.  Did birds pass by me on the left and I did not hear them?  I doubt it, but they could have.

Well, we had our hunt.  Did manage to spot a gobbler high on a hill and it was interested in mating real bad.  So we made an attempt on his little butt.  Moved in and set up.  Brandon up high, and me low.  Called a seductive sequence on the slate call and he gobbled.  YES!  Another seductive yelp and a closer gobble!

This is going to be fun!  Yelp!  Gobble.  And on it went until he was somewhere very close to Brandon, at least that is what my right ear was telling me.  But no boom of the shotgun.  And then he would not answer my seductive yelping, not even with the wing bone call.  Silence.

Later, discussing the event with Brandon, he said the bird was so close he could hear it “cluck” as it walked away, but he could not see it.  In order to hear the cluck he had to be within 20 yards.  The oak brush it thick and you can only hope the bird comes out into an opening for a shot.  Otherwise he is the winner and you go home with loaded shot shells.

Not being able to hear is not a fun deal.  And so after arriving home and taking off some of my hunting clothes, I call the docs office and got an appointment.  I hadn’t even had time to get a drink of water before I headed off for my appointment…an immediate opening!  I was a happy guy.

The doc took on look and said “Yep, ear wax”!  Then he proceeded to irrigate the inside of my ear with a high pressure washer and hot water.  You know the kind of high pressure washer you use to clean the gunk off an old rusty engine or the driveway?  Well that was the kind he used and believe me it hurt like heck.  He was all happy and grinny until I finally made a groaning noise from the pain he was inflicting.  Then he stopped.  Looked inside and said “Clean as a new born”!  And when he said that, I could hear STEREO!!!!

Stereo is good!

Bears Butt

April 30, 2012