swimming and work and foot MRIs and airplanes

[cjsmith]

1. Yeah, still swimming; I'll post when I have questions. (The crawl stroke IS TOO designed entirely to get water in my ears.)

2. Sometimes being busy is good. I'm very pleased with the stuff I've been working on for the past week-ish. It works and it does things... often the right things, even. :-)

3. Two MRI scans, one yesterday and one today. I forgot how long those things take and the wide variations in noises the machine can produce. I amused myself by watching the minutes and seconds on the display count downward.

I purchased duplicate copies of all the films. Since my last set of scans and my purchase of an impressive textbook was all well over a year ago, I have forgotten everything I ever learned about what these things should look like, and believe you me, everything I ever learned wasn't much. I stared at them for a while and said "Looks like the inside of a foot." Yeppers. Inside of a foot. Know what's inside a foot? Mainly glop.

Flying tomorrow. Probably some work, too. Then a houseguest and a party, and on Sunday I get to check out some weird shoes my foot doc recommended.

Comments

[erisian-fields.livejournal.com]

Get some Auro-Dry. It's alcohol and glycerin drops you put in your ears after swimming. It's awesome stuff and makes the water go away.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Where does one get something like this?

(I'm hoping any place magical enough to carry that will also carry the chlorine-b-gone shampoo whose name I have now totally forgotten, and might even be willing to sell me a new bathing suit in November.)

[erisian-fields.livejournal.com]

The anti-chlorine shampoo is harder to find in the winter. If you wet your hair and put some conditioner on it before you get in the pool, less chlorine (but not none) gets into your hair. However, it will make your swim cap slip off if you wear one.

The Auro-Dry is sold at most drug stores, Wal-Mart, and I've even seen it at Target. It's in with the contact solution and ear ache remedies section. Auro-Dry isn't the only brand. It's just the one I liked best.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll take a look.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

There's also stuff called SwimEar (http://www.wellcene.co.uk/cgi-bin/loadpage.cgi?user_id=320&file=w-swimear.html) which works well too. That's what I usually use.

[nosrednayduj]

I just use plain alcohol. The auro-dry bottles are very convenient for dribbling it in, so I bought one to start. You could also try earplugs, Ken uses those for waterskiing.

[anirishpenguin.livejournal.com]

Did you go flying? How did it go?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I did! I expected to be a bit rusty, considering I hadn't flown in months, but it went perfectly fine. I'll go up again this morning -- there's beautiful weather for it.

[firecat]

On water in the ear, I'll put in another recommendation for earplugs designed for use in the water. I recently started using them after years of doing the dog-shake thing after every lap. They work perfectly. I bought mine at Long's.