We spent the morning indoors.. I was up about 5:30 with bad pain in both ears, across my jaw to my front teeth. Taking some painkillers took the edge off but was still not going back to sleep.

I utilised my time by editing the narration for a film I am making for the Save Koh Tao film festival in a couple of weeks.

When Jen was up, breakfast eaten, and Eastenders watched. We went to the clinic. Another round of syringing, both ears this time. Nothing. So they put oil in my ears and sent me off for a couple of hours.

Deaf as a post in both ears, we returned a couple of hours later, more syringing and this time the doc (?!) removed cotton from my other very infected ear. After cleaning out as much as possible (still not completely), she examined both ears, and found that my right ear has a ruptured eardrum (no diving incident, so I have to assume the infection caused it). My left eardrum is still not visible so we have to wait for the swelling to go down…

Prognosis – 4 weeks before I can dive again, I am going to aim for 2. If, I reach 4 weeks and am still unable to dive, then we may return home to get a proper examination.

Sorry for the crap news…

🙁

SD

Well as promised, here is Jens Open Water video…

Today is a rest day, as both ears are now infected for me (bloody sore!) and Jen is tired from her weeks worth of early morning… Chores and stuff to do around the place….

Enjoy the vid!

Jenny has completed her first unsupervised Open Water Course.

A challenging introduction with one particular student who was very nervous, but Jen performed outstandingly. All students are continuing onto Deep Adventure dives tomorrow. WELL DONE JENNY!!

Video to be posted in the next day or 2, but while Jen was busy with Open Waters, I was finalising the build of the Twins Coral Nursery with the Eco Team. Here is a small snippet….

Thanks to Debbie Gotendenker for filming and Dan for the inspirational music (new band called “The XX”)

Enjoy folks!