Otitis Nostalgia

I've been reading Mary Poppins to cheer myself up. It has been so long that it seems almost new to me. Jane's earache reminds me of all the earaches I had as a child. I never get them anymore, and I wonder why. Well, I can get an earache from the cold, but it will go away after the ear warms up.

An earache takes me back to an actual doctor coming by our actual house. This was called a "house call." The only time in recent years I've seen an actual "house call" was in the case of a hospice patient confined to a bed in her home. Anyway, the doctor not only prescribed some eardrops, but had them in his black bag. No really, just like in an historical drama!

At that time we had a daybed in the family room, so it was before the room was paneled and the shelving put in. The daybed was a dark red with some sort of pattern and I was probably moping on it. I was given some tangerine segments to take the taste of the eardrops away after they had slid down the eustachian tube. What a great mini-anatomy lesson that was!