There's a rain forest in my head!!
I went diving here in New Zealand at Poor Knights marine reserve a few days ago and had a great time. I did my first ever dive in Thailand at Koh Tao in February and followed that up with 7 more dives on the east and west coasts. Lovely warm seas and lots of lovely colourful fish and corals. It's a bit cooler here so I needed a 14mm suit but it was nice to do a different dive. I also saw a few stingrays and whilst there isn't much coral to be found there's a lot of crustacean life! These photo's were taken with a throw away underwater camera so don't really do the scenes justice but it gives you an idea!!
The one thing I didn't notice was my diving computer telling me I was descending too fast after going into an underwater cave. What I did notice was the rather large pain in my ear!! Equalise, equalise, equalise!!! So now I find myself with a diving related inner ear injury. I'm told it will heal in the next 5 days to 3 months so not all bad. Flying isn't advised (though you are OK to) so at least I only have to fly to Chile and to Costa Rica in the next 10 days!! It means that I am now very hard of hearing; suffering from conductive hearing loss so you can imagine how much fun I am to be around right now. At least I have an excuse for not dong what I'm told!! When I had the check up they syringed my ears - first time ever - so when I do get my hearing back I'll be top notch, but man was there a lot of gunk coming out. Socks I thought I'd lost, the homework I thought the dog had ate - you name it, it was in there!!
So the rain forest quip? The conductive hearing loss means I have a continual ringing in my ears, and when it's quiet I can pick out the cicadas, the crickets, the birds and even the subtle swaying of the rain forest trees!!!
The one thing I didn't notice was my diving computer telling me I was descending too fast after going into an underwater cave. What I did notice was the rather large pain in my ear!! Equalise, equalise, equalise!!! So now I find myself with a diving related inner ear injury. I'm told it will heal in the next 5 days to 3 months so not all bad. Flying isn't advised (though you are OK to) so at least I only have to fly to Chile and to Costa Rica in the next 10 days!! It means that I am now very hard of hearing; suffering from conductive hearing loss so you can imagine how much fun I am to be around right now. At least I have an excuse for not dong what I'm told!! When I had the check up they syringed my ears - first time ever - so when I do get my hearing back I'll be top notch, but man was there a lot of gunk coming out. Socks I thought I'd lost, the homework I thought the dog had ate - you name it, it was in there!!
So the rain forest quip? The conductive hearing loss means I have a continual ringing in my ears, and when it's quiet I can pick out the cicadas, the crickets, the birds and even the subtle swaying of the rain forest trees!!!
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