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Post by sinsoo on Mar 18, 2007 13:38:29 GMT -5
I was cleaning my ears with those sicks with cotton at the end. And I accidentally poked my eardrum REALLY hard, and it hurts SO MUCH! Ow ow. Have any ideas on what to do?
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Post by PonyMama on Mar 18, 2007 13:57:18 GMT -5
Go to the doctors and make sure you did not permanently make yourself Deaf on one side. My step dad did that and he can no longer hear. You should never and I mean N-E-V-E-R, stick anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.
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Post by sinsoo on Mar 18, 2007 14:00:23 GMT -5
It's used to clean your ears with. I didn't mean to. Ow. (My mum did it to me when I was little) I am not permanently deaf thank god. I ask my sister to talk into my ear while I put an earplug in the other. And I could hear.
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Post by PonyMama on Mar 18, 2007 14:02:09 GMT -5
Well he cleaned his ear with Q-Tip too and his doctor told him, N-E-V-E-R stick anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.
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Post by sinsoo on Mar 18, 2007 14:05:10 GMT -5
Ahh so thats what there callled. AS far as I know I haven't done anything like that
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Post by élenëala alcarinquë on Mar 19, 2007 2:08:23 GMT -5
All the nurses I've spoken to claim the only thing a Q-tip should be used for is cleaning baby's umbilical cords!  |
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Post by PonyMama on Mar 19, 2007 2:10:10 GMT -5
All the nurses I've spoken to claim the only thing a Q-tip should be used for is cleaning baby's umbilical cords! Exactly, this supprts my don't stick anything in your ear smaller than your elbow. |
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Post by élenëala alcarinquë on Mar 19, 2007 2:25:12 GMT -5
Exactly, this supprts my don't stick anything in your ear smaller than your elbow. I always would respond to this wisdom with 'But my elbow can't reach my ear!!!' when I was little...  |
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Post by PonyMama on Mar 19, 2007 2:36:00 GMT -5
I think that was the point though. My step dad only hears a ringing noise out of one ear doing exactly the same thing. I will never stick anything in my ear.
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Post by élenëala alcarinquë on Mar 19, 2007 3:05:15 GMT -5
Yeah I think so too. It scares me. >.< |
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Post by JadeAngel on Mar 19, 2007 3:22:45 GMT -5
I've had so many sinus infections that are accompanied by ear aches, my ears are extra sensitive, which makes it easier to clean my ears because I know how far to go. I have to keep mine cleaned out because i have bad ear wax build up, and it's even built up and i couldn't hear out of that ear.
I comfort myself with the fact that I usually clean my ears at home, since my cats eat my q-tips that I have here in my apartment, is that my dad is a fully trained EMT and if something were to happen, he'd know what to do (for the most part)
After all **points to self** how many people do you know who knew how to do CPR by the age of 6? I didn't know that's what it was, but I was taught young
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Post by élenëala alcarinquë on Mar 19, 2007 3:39:22 GMT -5
Wow Jade. I'm going to take my 11 year old to a First Aid course with me soon (specifically one geared towards baby sitters so he can feel confident when helping watch his little brothers) but CPR at 6 years old is waaay impressive. |
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Post by JadeAngel on Mar 19, 2007 3:48:58 GMT -5
in all honesty, i just thought my dad had a really big doll to play with, and I remember her name being Annie, and there was also an infant resuscitation doll, that my brother and I named Tiffanie.
I also knew at an early age how to do lots of stuff that gets you in trouble, but somehow we always managed to never get seriously injured. I grew up in the country...literately out in the sticks, and I never have had anything worse than a light sprain and an allergy attack
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Post by JadeAngel on Mar 19, 2007 3:50:13 GMT -5
I'm a big supporter of kids learning CPR, because even if they can't perform it themselves on someone, they can instruct others on how to.
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Post by élenëala alcarinquë on Mar 19, 2007 4:06:16 GMT -5
I grew up in the 'semi' sticks. Not real country but not big city urban either, so we got to play in the woods a LOT which was wonderful. Myself and my husband and cubs will be moving to Scotland next year and I'm really hoping we can find a place that's not too 'city-centric'... I;d rather have them falling out of trees than apartment buildings.  |
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