Jimoh Zainab@zyainy
15 Years!
15 Years!!
Something that has been in my ears for 15 years, just fell off on its own!!! 😭
I went to the swimming pool a year after my Mom died, with an Uncle and my Sisters. It was from that pool that water entered my right ear. I expected the water to pour out naturally, the way water always does when it gets into the ears, as warm trickles. But no, this one didn’t. It stayed. Weeks later, something had formed in my ear. I found out when the cotton bud I was cleaning my ears with, bumped into it then.
Throughout these years, I felt intense pain at least thrice in each of them. The pain comes, torments me for a few days, then goes away. I don’t like hospitals, and I genuinely thought that this would require a surgery. I made enquiries a few time, and I came back scared that if I met a wrong doctor, I could end up deaf on my right ear.
You might not understand my fear until you experience it. It was bad enough for me to prefer to endure the pain and discomfort. I would clean my ears, and cleaning the right one was always torture. I didn’t even talk about this to the adults around me. I carried my pain silently.
Recently, the pain came back again but more intensely. My Sister got involved, and she prayed for me. She made researches on reliable hospitals offering ear care in Port Harcourt. Sent pictures to me, and I said I was going to check them out. The pain came back again last night, and I struggled with it till this morning. Something had changed though, it felt like whatever that thing was, it was coming closer to the exterior. One time during prayers, I said “I want it to fall out on its own”. I had given up on that possibility already, and then today, while trying to nurse the pain, I was massaging my ear with my finger, and it fell out. 🥺
I had just told my Sister that I would go to the hospital this week to take it out.
Specialist care would have cost substantial money, but here, in the sitting room, without the use of any tool, God gave it to me for free.
15 Years.
Thank You Lord. 🙇🏻♀️
PS: Below is the picture of what tormented me for 15 Years! 😢
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