Scott has been swimming two or three times a week lately. Suva has a wonderful Olympic sized pool. A week or two ago, he lost the hearing in one ear. He figured it was swimmers ear, so he started to put hydrogen peroxide in his ear. It made it worse. Then the other ear started to have problems. Our mission nurse sent him to a Dr. Mitchell who is Australian by training, but married a Fijian and moved to Suva in the 1980s. It has taken her three visits to get his hearing back, and the resulting infection cleared up. I laughed when she told him "No more fingers in your ears." She obviously has not looked at his fingers. Scott has wonderful hands that are large--square really. He could not get any of his fingers in his ear. We decided she really meant q-tips. It is good not to have to repeat everything I say two or three times. Through this I also realized that when one does not hear very well, hearing requires effort things like; turning to look at the speaker, getting closer, trying to fill in the pieces that were missed, etc. We are both now praying that our hearing lasts for years to come.
Fed the APs tonight. Elder Meyer has gone home. We will miss him. His replacement is Elder Hawk. He is pretty green--only thirteen months in the mission field--to be an AP. I always ask if the Elders want something special for dinner. It is interesting that the senior AP always answers the question. Elder Estill wanted cookies and cream ice cream. Easy! And I do not like it so the leftovers will never tempt me. Nice!
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