Slightly personal question: How do you clean your ears to keep them from getting blocked with wax? I've been having some trouble with this lately.

Are eardrops easy to do as a blind person? I wouldn't know, I never had to use them. I probably should be using wax softeners, but I don't want to screw it up and waste the medicine. Lol.

Sometimes my mom and I will use the dreaded q-tip/cotton swab to get wax out of my ears, and that helps if my hearing is very slightly muffled. But I think I'm paying the price for that now, since my hearing on the left side is persistently muffled. About 4 hours ago, I tried to irrigate it with warm water, and that made it much worse. It hasn't improved yet. Everything sounds extremely right heavy now. I won't be playing audio games or doing fancy audio work today.

I'm guessing I got myself a proper blockage. Deciding what to do about it is slowly but surely making my anxiety levels slope up. Part of me wants to try more at-home remities or just go to ergent care, because sitting here doing nothing about the problem is killing me. I'm even starting to psych myself out wondering if there is a blockage there at all, because my anxiety kinda does that. Another part of me is saying, calm down, you're not deaf, this is temporary. Maybe it would just go away if you quit worrying. Just ugh.