ct_scan ovenbird My appointment was scheduled for 10:40 p.m. I asked them to repeat it. Did they really mean 10:40 at night? They did. So in the hour when I should have been cozily tucked into my bed I drove to the hospital and found the imaging department. It was deserted. It took the technician only minutes to collect the necessary pictures of my sinus cavities. I wondered what they might find in there. A colony of ants? A chip implanted by aliens? The locus of my lifelong loneliness? The x-rays made digital slices of my face, and I didn’t feel a thing. It’s amazing what we humans can do. We can see so deeply into each other and, somehow, still not find a way to connect. 251106 ... ovenbird The results are “negative” though I was never quite sure what they were looking for in the first place. Abnormalities, I suppose. So I am negative for abnormalities. A good thing. But also it leaves me without answers. No one seems to know what’s going on between my sinuses and middle ear that leaves me with muffled hearing during high intensity exercise, along with pressure and light headedness that makes me feel like I’m under water. It’s a mystery. I need Dr. Gregory House (not sparrow, the human one) to investigate this medical mystery. I would even let him break into my house to see if I’m being poisoned by a rare mould or have contracted a virus that jumped from spiders to humans or have been compromised by heavy metals in my water supply. (I would then ask him if he would be so kind as to play the piano a little, because he’s really quite skilled at it and I would enjoy the musical interlude.) I am relieved that there is nothing sinister in my sinuses, but I am now back where I started, wondering what wires in my body are being chewed on by mice, wondering when the whole place will succumb to an electrical fire, wondering what’s living in the walls. 251118 ... epitome of incomprehensibility (Oof, what an appointment time. And I hope things get found out. Ears in particular have all sorts of small parts - I did a section on their anatomy in advanced phonetics class, which made me marvel at them working at all. The problem with mine is chronic tinnitus, but it's not that bad and I don't have hearing loss that I know of. But the ringing does get louder with changes in blood pressure, which can be unnerving.) 251119 what's it to you? who go blather from