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Welcome to the Ada's English Podcast.
My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co-host, Xochitl.
And we are back again, finally.
It's been a minute, as we say in English, since we did our last podcast.
So, Xochitl, I thought we could just catch up.
What's going on with you?
What's going on with me?
And just kind of get our listeners back to baseline here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's going on with you?
How have you been?
After that, I got like food poisoning.
Right, right, right.
And then when I was done with that, because it kind of kills all like the natural bacteria in your body as well.
You know you're more prone to like fungal infections.
So then I got a fungal infection in both of my ears.
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah.
Were you, like, I guess, objectively, like, deaf for a while?
Like, you couldn't hear?
Yeah.
I mean, I could hear a bit, but it was...
I mean, still right now, like out of especially out of my left ear, it's a little bit muffled.
And for a long time like I could hear kind of, but everything sounded muffled and also like crinkly in my ear, which because apparently my eardrum was like inflamed from irritation.
Thankfully, neither of my eardrums burst, but it was like it was not just a middle ear infection.
It was also an inner ear infection as well in both ears.
And so it was just – it was crazy.
I was like taking two different types of drops three times a day and the oral antibiotic twice a day.
And now that that's all over, I'm taking – the another type of drop twice a day in both ears for the fun love and for our listeners out there.
Like drops means like you um, you you have like a little, a little liquid, and you you use a dropper to drop the medicine into your, into the ear canal.
Yes yeah, so it was miserable and i've always kind of had um, a propensity for ear kind of ear infections or something, but not like this.
I've never had a crazy double ear infection like that.
And it just has lasted so long now it's been almost a month.
And, um, Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That's, I had the same problem in one year in Thailand.
I got like this uh, uh.
I don't know if you guys know that the um The Songkran Water Festival in Thailand is where they basically it's a three day.
It's the new year, Thai New Year.
And they have a water gunfight.
And somebody shot some like just old dirty water right into my left ear.
Oh, no.
Yeah, that was it was game over.
I remember my eardrum burst.
And so I would wake up with like a little pink liquid on my pillow.
Oh, my God.
It was, like, coming out of my ear.
And I've never – it took a month to recover with tons of antibiotics and stuff.
And I didn't realize, like, how dangerous it was.
You know, fungus on the brain, you could die, you know?
Like, it can – bad things can happen.
So –
I've never heard as well out of my left ear as I do out of my right ear.
So I always talk on the phone on my right side because I lost hearing.
Yeah, on the left side.
I have natural deafness in my left ear anyway.
Okay.
And it causes balance issues.
I actually knew about this when I was a kid, but we never really got it.
I never got a hearing aid or anything because it was kind of in between whether I needed one or not.
It didn't seem like I really needed one.
Definitely go without the hearing aid if you can when it is a kid.
You don't want to be the...
Yeah.
So I didn't end up using one.
And then I got to Korea and I had kind of forgotten all about this.
And I got to Korea and you know they give you your big long health test before you get hired.
Like when you apply for a job, you get a test and then they decide whether they I mean you have to be in good health essentially to be hired.
And what came up on my hearing test was that I was.
I had deafness in one ear, but not so bad that I can't hear out of it.
Just I miss like several tones in that ear.
And I had never known it could cause balance problems.
I've always been clumsy back.
And I have like zero spatial awareness.
And I didn't know that that was because my ear problem until I was talking to the Korean doctor.
And she's like do you suffer from this and this, like spatial awareness, like knocking into things clumsiness, loss of balance.
I was like, oh, yes, all of that.
And she's like, oh, it's because of deafness in your ear.
But. it doesn't matter that much.
Like, it was fine that I could still pass my test.
So she just said, you know, I could get it checked in Korea.
And I never did.
It's hard because I had a hagwon job, which means you have, like...
10 days off total, right?
So I had no time to go and get like hearing aids or get it like fixed in Korea.
But I think if I ever went back and worked like as a professor.
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There's something I definitely use a big chunk of my time off to go and get like get it fixed, probably because it would.
It would help in the long run, you know.
And the hearing aids now are tiny.
So you could probably put it in there and you could and you have long hair.
You know, for me, a hearing aid would just stick out like a sore thumb, you know.
I know.
And you're to the age where it's like embarrassing to have one too, because it seems like maybe it's because you're old.
Sorry, Jackie.
No, no.
I just I got my hearing tested the other day because not too long ago.
And it's fine because I listen to my music.
You know, I like to record music.
So I'm always listening to my headphones too loudly.
And I was kind of worried, but.
I'm okay.
Um, but yeah, inner ear problems do cause balance issues and, uh, there's like a, uh, vertigo.
That's another thing you can suffer from.
You can get sick.
You make you feel like you're dizzy all the time.
Um, so yeah, you've got to really take care of your ears.
And um, They say don't use Q-tips and stuff like that.
But I still do, but you're not supposed to.
I do, but I think I'm going to stop because after this, like I use them like all the time.
And then the doctor was like, don't use Q-tips, you know, anymore.
And I was like, dang, fine, I won't.
I heard a nurse say something like you never stick anything smaller than your elbow into your ear.
Yes, that's true.
Yeah, i'm like, but my elbow won't fit in there and i'm like, oh wait, i get it.
Yeah, i mean it's because your outer ear like just the little tiny folds like you can kind of clean that a little bit, but you're not supposed to put anything like in your ear and i think it's just hard because anytime that it's itchier, you feel like it, that it's waxy, like it just seems dirty and you want to clean your ear.
You know you feel disgusting, right?
Yeah, you just feel like i feel like shrek, you know, like a candle out of my ear or something, you know.
Yeah well, how have things been for you?
Jack, it's been good.
You know my daughter is back into in this in america or in korea now.
Um, she's staying here for the summer and she's leaving in a couple weeks and uh, you know we've just been doing family stuff.
Um, we took a trip and we'll talk about that a little in another episode.
Um and um, You know, it's just.
You know, when you have a teenager, they don't want to hang out with their parents.
You know what I mean?
Like it's not like we're just sitting down having these, like you know, fireside chats or anything like that.
You know, and kids these days don't even watch movies anymore, to be honest.
TikTok is like, you know, if it's longer than 30 seconds, it's like boring for them.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, we haven't really done that much, but I don't really watch.
Sorry, Jack, I didn't mean to cut you off.
I was going to say I don't really watch movies myself.
By the time I was in college, pretty much none of us ever watched movies like.
That was already a generational shift.
But we do watch series because the pacing is kind of different.
And it seems like you can watch a bunch of 30 minute episodes, but not like a two hour long movie or something.
Yeah.
It's weird.
It's, it's the binge society.
Like you get, you get, you, they pull, they, they hook you and then you just can't wait.
What's next.
What's next.
What's next.
You know, but yeah, as far as like sitting down and watching like a, like a two hour movie, I've watched a couple this summer, a couple of really amazing ones, but like I saw a Nola was a really good movie and, um the actress won the best uh uh actress oscar or whatever um but uh yeah i just haven't seen i just jack you cut out and i were gonna oh sorry you're fine okay I haven't really sat down and watched a lot of movies this summer with with my daughter, which was kind of my plan because we used to be like movie buddies, you know.
But it's OK.
You know, she's 17.
I get it.
And it's OK.
You know, like you got to give them space and let them hang out with their friends, because their friends are everything at this time in their lives.
And it's just great having her around.
So that's basically what's been going on with us here.
And we go out to you every once in a while, and it's nice.
So, yeah.
That's nice.
Good summer, yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, listeners, let us know how you guys have been.
We've really missed you.
I've been thinking.
You know I really miss the community and I love getting on here and having a chat with Jack.
It's like I really stay in touch with Jack more than I do like pretty much most of my friends.
Just because we meet for this podcast like weekly or every two weeks at least.
And so, yeah, we're just it's funny because we just coincidentally stay in touch a lot.
And we've been doing this podcast, Jack, for like how long now?
Almost three years.
Right.
I think I know it's crazy.
It's just like the pod that won't die.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Time has just flown by.
Anyway, if you if you guys appreciate the pod, show us some love in the comments.
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Bye bye.
Bye bye.
We'll see you next time.
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