Addendum:
Two days later, the hearing is almost all back.... just enough so that I cannot quite trust what I am hearing or that I am hearing what I should be hearing. I keep looking around to see if I missed something past the humming that's become part of my left side.
The pimple is gone... I know coz I spent fifteen minutes this morning looking for it; it's still bugging the shit out of me though, hence the looking.... and as soon as I wondered about the hives, the itching started again.... lol!
But other than that, life is golden.... No, I'm not being sarcastic.