.  And I'm crying, two plopping tears from both eyes, because I'm listening to my friend Ellen talk in my ears, ears which, knock driftwood, still work fine.  And I'm crying, two plopping tears from both eyes, because I'm listening to my friend Ellen talk in my ears, ears which, knock driftwood, still work fine-even though a few weeks ago when I went to the doctor about my shoulder, she also noticed that my right ear was jammed full of ear wax, to the point that she had her nurse, whose abilities I'm not completely convinced put her at the head of her class, pour softening drops into my ears and flush them out, a process that required me to hold a bowl under my ear while she squirted syringe after syringe of warm water into my skull, at the end of which the nurse looked into the bowl to take stock, saw nothing much, and remarked, "Hey, there are a couple of flecks!" and then she looked into my ears and declared them fully cleaned out, except I wasn't quite sure what she was saying because it had been hella loud to have syringe after syringe of water squirted into my skull, and so I was feeling a leetle deef.  And I'm crying, two plopping tears from both eyes, because I'm listening to my friend Ellen talk in my ears, ears which, knock driftwood, still work fine-even though a few weeks ago when I went to the doctor about my shoulder, she also noticed that my right ear was jammed full of ear wax, to the point that she had her nurse, whose abilities I'm not completely convinced put her at the head of her class, pour softening drops into my ears and flush them out, a process that required me to hold a bowl under my ear while she squirted syringe after syringe of warm water into my skull, at the end of which the nurse looked into the bowl to take stock, saw nothing much, and remarked, "Hey, there are a couple of flecks!" and then she looked into my ears and declared them fully cleaned out, except I wasn't quite sure what she was saying because it had been hella loud to have syringe after syringe of water squirted into my skull, and so I was feeling a leetle deef