Wow...mastoiditis, I know about it as a possibility, but the first actual case, sorry.
Indeed, a potentially dangerous condition, glad that it was discovered and treated early.
Cohlear implant-if that is what you are talking about (no need to specify if it is or isn't as it is personal, I am just going off of what you already said)-it is almost a miracle of modern medicine.
Yeah, seems to be rare. The only symptoms were a feeling of liquid inside the ear (the doctor didn't see any liquid, though) and a constant hum (like a car with diesel engine running in idle mode outside a flat, when listened to from inside) - which he thought was psychic
Though, when knocking with my thumb on the bone behind my ear it was sounding like a fat, sustained TR808 bassdrum, which kinda proved a physical relationship, but i'm not a doctor
I insisted on getting the ossicle implant checked in the hospital, which was made of a neurotoxic aluminium-glass compound (wait for the full story).
The surgeon found the infection just when he was about to end the inspection of the implant, cut it out and threated it with antibiotics.
Now, how did i get an implant costisting of some rather dangerous material?
They just didn't know it, it was a new surgery compound from a well known manufacturer's (3M) subdivision branch, used successfully for some time already in dental lab work, when brain surgeons started to use it for replacing skull bone, resulting in early post-surgery death of the patiens because aluminium ions were leaking into the brain's liquor fluid, causing fatal encephalitis. So the sub-branch of the company was closed, de-registered, all of the material was recalled. In between those happenings, i was getting my implant, to lessen my post-accidental hearing loss, in the 80s, when you didn't need something like a certificate for implants, for airports, MRI an so on. This became obvious when i almost had my first MRI (of the head) post Y2K, and they asked me for implants, and in turn for the certificate. Then they said i can't get an MRI without the certificate. When i went to the hospital and asked to issue one, they didn't have a reference to the manufacturer and no brand name of the material, and the manufacturer, as registrar of the patent didn't exist anymore. So i just took the plunge, made another appointment at a different MRI facility and denied any knowledge of implants, like i do until today. Knowing that aluminium is not ferromagnetic, i was pretty sure that there won't be problems until the field strength of the MRI would not exceed extremely high figures.
I found this all out by research about the used material, to get a certificate for the implant. In the process i had eMail contact with a woman at 3M, who was an employee of the vanished sub-branch/corp which manufactured the withdrawn material. She brought me onto the right track. I was only lucky that this one woman got my eMail assigned, i guess.
Now that's the story. A great chain of lucky events, considering the accident which was the reason for implanting the ossicular plastic, almost got me killed in the first place as a child.
A good morning out of Thailand it is
Enjoy... but remember Elwar and Nadia.
I do remember
Haven't seen him around in a while, after the Bitcoin-Titanic story...
Also missed here: LastoftheV8s, Hairymaclary, Arriemoller and a few others i maybe forgot about since i registered to bitcointalk.
It could be a tax thing. Or human semantics. Or ETF pre-pumping. Or...just plain old
unpredictable Bitcoin.
Looking fwd to the upcoming C(arolina)CMF...
Though, it's no more Choo-Choo, it's Chop-Chop nowadays, innit?
EDIT: Or is it vrooom-vroom, actually
* OutOfMemory scratching his head...
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