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Something that most people (even those that know me in person) don´t know about me - I´m pretty deaf.
Prior to two weeks ago, my hearing was already very poor (deaf in my left ear, 70% hearing in my right), but I´ve managed just fine in my day-to-day for years. Unfortunately, I slipped with a Q-tip recently, and apparently traumatized my right ear... the specialist says my hearing is down to around 30% at best (it fluctuates to less than that), and we´re hoping that it comes back with some anti-inflammatory treatment that I´m on now. Kinda terrified, honestly - I went through 14 major operations as a child/teenager to fix my ears and related complications, and had hearing aids from age 2 to age 17. I´ve been holding onto what hearing I have left so precariously, and I´m having almost daily anxiety attacks that I´m just going to be completely deaf. Coupled with the fact that I´m pretty freaking blind (around 20/500 vision in both eyes, but I wear contacts), I´m feeling pretty vulnerable in life right now, and that´s not something that I´m dealing very well with. Just asking for some prayers and good vibes gents, I could really use the support.
Prior to two weeks ago, my hearing was already very poor (deaf in my left ear, 70% hearing in my right), but I´ve managed just fine in my day-to-day for years. Unfortunately, I slipped with a Q-tip recently, and apparently traumatized my right ear... the specialist says my hearing is down to around 30% at best (it fluctuates to less than that), and we´re hoping that it comes back with some anti-inflammatory treatment that I´m on now. Kinda terrified, honestly - I went through 14 major operations as a child/teenager to fix my ears and related complications, and had hearing aids from age 2 to age 17. I´ve been holding onto what hearing I have left so precariously, and I´m having almost daily anxiety attacks that I´m just going to be completely deaf. Coupled with the fact that I´m pretty freaking blind (around 20/500 vision in both eyes, but I wear contacts), I´m feeling pretty vulnerable in life right now, and that´s not something that I´m dealing very well with. Just asking for some prayers and good vibes gents, I could really use the support.
¨The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea¨ - Isak Dinesen
¨Only two people walk around in this world beardless - boys and women - and I am neither one.¨
¨Only two people walk around in this world beardless - boys and women - and I am neither one.¨
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Here's hoping that at the very least everything returns to normal.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Prayers going your way! Godspeed. You have opened the door for support and God's healing hand....stay positive and know someone is walking through the door you opened.
¨Only two people walk around in this world beardless - boys and women - and I am neither one.¨
Life is too short to smoke bad cigars!!!
Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues go marching in!
but ANYWAY, I woke up this morning and things seem to be back to normal! I don't mean 100% (cuz I didn't have that anyway), but my hearing seems to be totally back to what I had before I injured myself. I'm still completing the medicine the doctor put me on, and I have a follow-up appointment in a couple weeks, but so far I've gone all day today with normal hearing. Stoked to be back to normal, and to celebrate we're headed out the door to see Jurassic World right now
¨Only two people walk around in this world beardless - boys and women - and I am neither one.¨