Home remedies

Yes, that is Robert with a flaming candle in his ear. B.J., my mom's caregiver, is gleefully holding it.

As a bit of back- ground: She's here with my mom, and Robert had jammed wax deep into his ear canal. And, as the natural-healing store around the corner confirmed, what you need is a hollow candle to suck everything out on a stream of hot smoke.

It did pull some goop out, but there was still a visit to doc-in-a-box.

All in all, it told me that it was wrong to think that there was only one of Robert's orifices that was flaming.