There must be a gadget for this

[cjsmith]

Plague is still hanging on in an annoying way. I'm not incapacitated, but I'm exhausted from coughing instead of sleeping all night, and I'd give a lot to make my ears pop.

It would be great to find some kind of pain medicine that can make an exhaustion headache recede. My eyeballs are the wrong size for my skull. Excuse me, sir, I'd like to return these. They don't fit. ... Yes, that's okay, I'll take one blue and one green. I'm not going anywhere fancy for the next week. Do those come with glasses?

What I'd really like, though, is some kind of gumdigit to force my ears to pop. (The clever tricks for this work -- or mostly, don't -- on healthy heads.) When I am Queen I'll set a team of scholars to work on it. The gadget might be very simple. Poke a small glass rod up into the little canal until it goes SQFFFFFT and lets all the air in. Yeah, maybe it would need to have a channel indented along the edge to help break the seal; don't bother me with details. Think of all the human suffering that could be alleviated! We have neti pots, for goodness' sake; why not this? Somebody needs to invent it and then sell one to me. Bonus points for hanging around to show me how to find the little canal.

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

My Eustachian tubes usually fill up with air, though. I want to let it out! :-)

If you're taking Guaf, one thing I had to learn was that it doesn't work unless you stay very hydrated. Of course, for me and my high medication tolerance, it still isn't fantastic, but it works a little.

And how go those plans on become Queen, anyway? ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Still not Queen. :-) But I think I would have MUCH more fun biology and chemistry labs in my Kingdom. C'mon, making drugs? Awesome! Making ear-canal-poke rods and trying them out on your lab partners? Isn't that more fun than chopping up an innocent frog? :-)