An unexpectedly tiring couple of days! Yesterday was my first visit to the solicitor who will be doing my will, which took quite a lot longer than expected. A brief after-lunch nap, and then the WGP Election Strategy meeting in the evening, which took over two and a half hours. Then walking back up the hill with Clare and chatting.
Today was an overdue visit to Specsavers to have ear wax removed. I’ve been almost completely deaf in my left ear for nearly three weeks, which causes very bad tinnitus. Frustratingly, I get the kind that sounds like almost-familiar music played on a poor transistor radio in an adjacent room! Left ear was touch-and-go whether she would actually manage to dislodge the accumulation, but after about 20 minutes she dislodged a massive wodge – about the size of three match heads – and then it was a quick finish off. The right ear had minimal wax, and took less than 30 seconds! I’m fairly convinced that it’s because of the recurrent eczema in my left ear that it’s always so much worse than the right one.
I last hd wax removal almost exactly six months ago, in June. After discussion, it seems sensible not to wait until severe problems set in, but to pop in for a quick look at my ears every three months or so … I’m kind expecting that I’ll need that ear done every four months or thereabouts. At £60 a time, sadly.
All of which has left me exhasted. The pre-Christmas crowd of shoppers in the city centre is not something I navigate easily, and two days on the trot was distinctly wearing. Still, good for my step count, I suppose.