[11:08] <daftykins> blech hearing trouble turned into a full-on infection in the one ear now :/ what a saga!
[11:48] <zxmpi> that sounds unpleasant. hope you find a good solution and quick relief
[11:52] <daftykins> thanks! it's a bit funky, extended to the upper jaw so impacts speech even o0
[11:55] <zxmpi> getting old is such /fun/
[11:56] <zxmpi> hopefully you've moved past home remedies and have a doctor looking into it
[11:58] <daftykins> oh yeah last month was an attempt with the nurse at a local surgery with syringing, that didn't shift it - last 2 attempts were with the specsavers audiologists locally who tried micro-suction, which last time was trying to pull my eardrum with it and so we had to hold off
[11:59] <daftykins> i'd just switched from oil drops to the Otex hydrogen peroxide product when suddenly this flared up, so the GP just this morning prescribed some kind of spray for the infection
[11:59] <zxmpi> i'm now picturing rom with his home remedy in ds9 :-P
[12:02] <daftykins> hah i don't recall an episode with some ear care, but that's fitting
[12:13] <zxmpi> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i1V1NXfTvo
[12:30] <daftykins> lol a manual video of a video from Netflix, classic
[12:41] <zxmpi> needs to be converted a few more times from horizontal to portrait so it has massive black bars on all sides
[12:54] <daftykins> xD
[12:54] <daftykins> and audio desynced
[12:55] <zxmpi> tiktok voice over and music added