Ever Had an Ear Infection?

 Well, I had one now for about a month! About three days after figuring out I had an ear infection I went to the doctors. He gave me an antibiotic pill and eardrops for 10 days. After 10 says the infection seemed the same. I called the VA clinic hoping to let them take a look, it was a Friday, and that person wasn't at the clinic, but they wanted me to go see my doctor or go to the outpatient place before the weekend.

Being it was Friday, I figured my doctor would be busy, so I went to the outpatient place. They looked at my ear and said it was infected, so they gave me another antibiotic to use for 10 days. Well, 12 days passed and not much has changed, so I called my doctor again this morning and went out there. This time he said I had a fungal infection after I told him what happened. He asked if what he first prescribed helped any which I said it pretty much didn't do anything.

So, today he put a wick in my ear and prescribed me Acetic Acid to use in my ear. In two days, I go out to have the wick removed but will continue using the Acetic Acid for a total of 5 days.

So, what happened, or how do I think I got the infection? On one of those really hot day's, the pool was getting pretty warm as well as it was just hot in the sun. I decided to hook a hose up and have it spray a fine spray over the pool to cool off when going under it as well as cool the water down in the pool some.

Altogether there was around 300 or more feet of hose going from the front of the house out back to the pool. The thing is, there had been water in the hoses, so hard to tell what all kinds of crap might have been growing inside of the hoses. It just so happens the one tome I went under the spray of water, a drop of water went straight down into my ear, and I'm pretty sure that's what caused the infection.