I am Single Side Deaf in my left ear...deaf as in deaf - sound does not compute type of deaf, but to this day - eight months after the surgery that took my hearing and balance away, I STILL HEAR AND LISTEN TO SOUNDS AND NOSIES!! My dear doctor, calls this an "anomaly", which indicates to me that it is I who is the "anomaly". Just as clear and crisp in my left ear hole at this very moment are the noises of crickets, frogs, gators and crocs. Again, this is happening as I type these words...in my deaf ear. In my right ear I have had to deal with a constent beep-beep-beeping for the past week or so and all bleeding day. Morris Code like, beep,beep,beep...
What I'll share now is of the sounds that have passed through my ears from the beginning...from before the beginning, prior to diagnosis...there was a very long period when I heard the sound of a train choo-choo'ing in my ear's back yard - out my bedroom window...also have had the jet's and plane's roaring engines in my ear. NOTE: Routinly flipping from one side to another, as I have never had both ears in concert...may have had concerts going on full blast with-in, just on two different channel's...have had air-boats in my ear/back yard, helecopter's and motor engines roaring loudly...in my ear/ears...daily. Every damned day of the week...and yes, there is a medication one's doctor might presribe.
There are times when my right-good-bad-ear, has such poor hearing I must cup my ear to hear...same as when I put my phone on speaker and still hold the telephone to my ear...when I have to ask more than three times for a repeat please...then make believe I've heard something somebody has said...there have been times when my hearing has just stopped for a moment or few...horrifying! And then there is when I am totally deaf, as when I sleep on my right ear/side. This is particulary difficult for me, "the man" of the house..."DA Big Dog". There's something just not okay with this.
Then are times my hearing is so accutely sharp that the slightest of noise is troubling, offensive and even startling. Pranks are not funny.
I do have a BAHA, and have used my processor as much as possible. Just have not had it on too much since I was presented it in March. If not for surgery's, there have been infection and cyst at site of implant - there have been mechanicl issues too. Actually, my dear processer is being repaired across the Big Pond at this moment. Am eagerly awaiting it's return.
Walking The Path...one step, one sound at a time...
Pranks are not funny...really.
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