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Originally Posted by RoxyLuv  It's been 2-1/2 years, and still no sign of hearing anything at all in that ear. He said a virus caused it. Have completely failed hearing tests. Dr doesn't expect that I'll ever hear in that ear again. Anytime I'm sick for any reason, my equilibrium gets worse until I'm well again, but it's always a little off even when I feel good. I am a person who rushed everywhere, moved quickly, but not anymore. If I move fast, I'm likely to be flat on my face.
Being in a room full of people talking & noisey are stifling. Have to wear ear plugs at gd's basketball games. Same if I went to see a stage show, music, or anything like that. People hug me & talk at the same time in my deaf ear. I hear a voice sometimes, but not what they said so I'm always saying, 'Huh'. (Never realized we always hug people to their right side.) Go to restaurant & have to make sure I'm sitting so rest of group is on my left so I can hear them, or give myself whiplash constantly turning my good ear toward the person talking to me. The list goes on and on....
It's hard to walk Roxy across the yard or any uneven ground, as I have to be sure where I'm walking so that I don't get off balance. If I look at the ground all the time, I get dizzy. I'm fine driving usually because I'm sitting, but sometimes it a good jaunt from parking space to stores where there's something to grab onto for a minute to steady myself. DH drives me alot of places, but I absolutely HATE that! Guys just don't shop right ya know, hate having someone waiting around for me & bored, have no independence. The word stereo no longer means anything to me. I try to content myself by telling myself things like, 'Well at least it's not cancer.' or something like that.
So take great care of your ears. Don't take them for granted. They affect your well being more than you realize. Sorry, didn't mean to go on so long. So glad you are doing better today. |
Wow! That really sounds terrible. It really does affect your whole life. I know a short week like that and I can't take it much more.
I know for me, its the eyes that I tell people not take for granted. I was born with crossed eyes and a lazy eye. I had surgery when I was 2 years old. I never developed depth perception vision. So I can't tell the depth of stairs so I have to hold a railing and look at the steps going up and down. I am terrified of heights which is weird since I can't even tell how high I am, how far away the ground is to me. haha I trip on everything and always walk with my head down to see where Im going, this is habit due to my eyesight.
I had to learn how to tell how far away from me something was, as simple as a glass of milk at dinner, I would reach for it too soon and instead of grabbing the cup I would knock it over. I couldn't see 3-d movies most of my life, but with advanced technology I can start to see things now. Not that I wanted to, but I could never fly a plane legally. I am lucky that I can drive a car even.
I will never use eye drops because I have a fear of putting anything in or near my eyes (except makeup). This was bad because my senior year of HS, I swapped conjunctivitis with the girl who had the locker next to me about 8x during the year and was on eye meds most of the year.
This is not correctable with surgery or lens. You can't fix something you don't have. So this is something I'll always deal with and live with. It does not bother me much at this point, but it was a rough childhood, I'll tell ya.
