1. My ears have been majorly stopped up for a couple of days (I have small ear holes, and this happens rather easily), so I called the doctor to squeeze in an appointment. I arrived at 11am, got the right ear flushed out, and then was told I had a "foreign body" in my left ear. After several painful minutes of them trying to remove it, they called down to the Ear, Nose, and Throat specialists. They were off at lunch, so I was told to wait. (Actually, my options were to either wait or make an appointment after July 21st...obviously, I didn't want to leave that foreign body in there for another month and a half.) Anyway, the ENT doctor saw me at 2:30pm and not less than 30 seconds later he had extracted a disposable plastic dome from my hearing aid. That sucker is kinda big--8mm in diameter (see below).
2. After that painful and surprising operation, I went to the gym for a quick workout. As I walked into the locker room, a friend of mine stopped me and squealed, "I-just-saw-Tiger-Woods-he's-in-the-gym!" Faithful readers of the blog will remember I had a sighting of Tiger several months ago, but it was brief. This time, I was on the elliptical machine not three feet away from him for 15 minutes. Then I casually followed him into the weight room and watched him do crunches out of the corner of my eye while I pretended to do bicep curls. I didn't talk to him - didn't want to bother the poor guy - but I did confirm with the trainer that it was him.
So that's my story for the day!
3 comments:
Now that's a day where you've earned the right to skip out on work! GRIN!!!
I remember at Centenary we used to talk about being "in your dome" when you got inside someone's head. I suppose this story takes that description to a new level.
You also should have challenged Tiger to a weight-room lift-off. You could have shouted, "I'm in your dome, buddy-boy!" I think the buddy-boy would have gone over very well. You could have also shouted, "I'm in your dome, best golfer in history!" or "I'm in your dome, richest current athlete!" but these probably aren't as good. I'd stick with "buddy-boy".
The idea of having something extracted from your ear and immediately following with a workout seems painful and somewhat strange. If I hadn't personally observed you doing similar, potentially injurious things hiking, I'd think you were lying. Instead, I think you're honest and crazy :)
But the fact that you were obviously on par with Tiger during your post-extraction workout means that you must be super awesome way better in shape than that dope.
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