Caption the Picture Contest- "The Clay Marble" style

Time for fun again!

This is a photo from my trip to Cambodia last summer. Village kids would gather to watch us paint the medical clinic - some would pitch in to help, others were a little more shy and would sit at a safe distance and watch.

These boys are playing with toys (guns ) they had made from clay, just like in the book The Clay Marble by Mingfong Ho.

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Secret to a long marriage, or one reason I love my husband.

He has a great sense of humor. Witness the email he just sent me:

"The following joke is from the Lift Your Spirits Daily Calendar that you gave me:

A man was telling his neighbor, “I just bought a new hearing aid. It cost me four thousand dollars, but it’s state of the art.”

“Really,” answered the neighbor. “What kind is it?”

“Twelve thirty.”

Have a fun day... XXXOOO Jeff"

Yeppers. Fun times in our home these days. Lots of laughing with the changes.

(He is the good looking fellow in the middle of the picture- the older couple are his parents, our youngest son is beside me. This was one photo we took last week at the memorial service for Jeff's 84 year old Aunt - his mother's sister.)

Secrets to the start of successful Gentamicin Drop Treatment ...

or ...
The Wobbly Librarian shares all with all 3 of her readers regarding the latest in her saga of Meniere's Disease, and the friends and family who still stand beside her. Amen.


Friday marked the start of weekly intratympanic gentamicin treatments in my left ear.


Coincidentally, I awoke Friday in the throes of a strong episode of vertigo; when we arrived at Dr. Sun's office and it was my turn to be seen, the vertigo was ongoing- and when he looked at me he asked for permission to videotape my eyes. Not because of their beauty, but due to the lively nystagmus. He was jazzed and wanted to be able to show other patients.



































Then he filled the ear with a topical cream and left us alone to relax for about half an hour. The cream numbed the eardrum and surrounding area- in preparation for installation of a Tympanostomy Tube (you know- the little grommet-shaped things that are placed into children's eardrums when kids have frequent middle-ear infections.)


My only complaint? The cream was cold. Yikes!

There was some discomfort when the good doctor vacuumed out the cream ... and some jokes about mouth-to-ear resuscitation that weren't funny, but were appreciated. (The doc gets my sense of humor, and for this I am grateful.)

Good times were had by all when he put the tube in the eardrum. Translation: A little bit of an ouch.


Next step: flush in the gentamicin. Allow it to bathe the semicircular canals.
(Just for kicks he waved the syringe full of gentamicin around in front of me. A long needle. Just to pretend to be mean. Made some brouahahaha noises (I did, to keep it lively).



















I was already familiar with the medicine- not many places make the proper formula/concentration. The pharmacist had spent all Thursday morning titrating it to adjust the pH, and I had been relieved to receive the call that the syringe was ready to be picked up from his compounding pharmacy in Redlands.

A magic formula at the correct pH to bring a halt to the debilitating vertigo.


















I'll have a hearing test this week, followed by another treatment.

Thanks for the prayers.

I know that God has a plan.

Perhaps it is to be home for just a couple more weeks.

Or perhaps it is to be back at work as soon as next week. I have not had an episode of vertigo since the treatment. That is very promising, indeed!