He gets blocked ears with earwax about once every year or so. The local surgery say they've stopped doing it. Perhaps it's cuts, they didn't say.
It's been over a week of grumpiness and listening having to hear him complain about how he's paid for this with his NI. He's spent money on a kit that didn't work and this morning he's huffed off the the local MIU where he expects to get it done. Earlier in the week, I had a pretty gruelling appointment at the County hospital and he was umming and ahing about whether he would walk across to A&E to get them to see to it while he waited for me. I did manage talk him out of that.
All the while he could have gone to Boots and paid £35 and be happily hearing again instead of trying to pick fights with me. He's even gone into town to complain to our MP about it, which is only a few doors away from Boots. I tried to help by googling where he could get it done, which he could easily have done himself, but all he did was moan at me for bringing my phone into to the bedroom.
Is it unreasonable to expect him to have sorted this promptly himself by now? He's not short of money and he's not been pleadant company at all for ten days now. I'd have every sympathy if it were something incurable, but I'm growing weary of tiptoeing around him, though I haven't snapped at him - yet!