It is what Shrek pulled out of his ear and used for a candle. Imagine you can do the same. Would people like it or find you disgusting? If it comes to body fluids we are rarely charmed by it. No one likes to whisper into a dirty ear, see a clot of ear wax while talking to you. Snot, drooling isn't charming either but imagine what life looked like if you have a lack of body fluids. More people than you think to suffer from it. Especially women and elderly people.
Frequently I think of the lady lying next to me in hospital. Bruises allover, not able to turn herself or to drink. There was plenty on her side table left by her daughter but if you can't reach for it and always feel thirsty...
It's strange how not one of the other patients, all mobile, cared about her. There she was in her bed. The sun shone on her face. A woman dehydrated, her skin so extremely dry that it changed into a white kind of cardboard. They came to wash her, change her diapers but no one gave her something to drink or was willing to put some cream on her skin. A skin that couldn't heal only got dryer by the hour. Her biggest organ was neglected.
I crawled out of bed and closed the curtains to make her feel more comfortable. Several times a day I gave her something to drink. If you believe an infusion 24/7 doesn't make you feel thirsty, avoid dry skin, you are wrong.
Without body fluids, with dry skin, it's not just about dry lips. You can not cry, there are no tears which means your eyes are always infected. Inside your nose it's dry and the skin is torn and it's hard to smell. Your mouth always feels dry and no matter how many times you drink it doesn't help. Swallowing is hard and eating and drinking easily makes you cough and choke and ear wax? Ear wax became history. Instead, you suffer from ear pain because all protection is gone.
It is strange how fast time passes by. It's hard to imagine that an elderly person once was a baby, a funny toddler. A child that drooled and shed tears. A person brewing her nose and took care of herself, her skin. Once ill, wrinkled, you no longer look attractive. The smelly teenager changed into a smelly, elderly person with a dirty taste in her mouth. A person people avoid, someone I shared my chocolate with so she could taste at least something else for a few minutes a day.
Sjögren disease is one of those illnesses doing this to you and you know what? You don't even need to be old to suffer from it.
I also have a problem with ear 👂 wax. There is only one solution. To live calmer life and eat fresh food. I know it's almost impossible in today's world, but if You want to stay health, You need to do this