Sudden Deafness in One Ear
Last week I dropped into full silence on one side. But let's take a look back first... I've been losing my hearing now for 35 years. It has been a slow and steady loss; the kind that goes unnoticed over weeks and even many months. But over the years it has been like becoming a senior citizen many times over. A cycle in which I must realize (or more accurately, admit to myself) that I have lost an appreciable amount of hearing and I either need to have my hearing aids adjusted or replaced. A cycle that requires me to "learn" how to hear again because, after getting the aids adjusted or replaced, my world sounds drastically different than it did the day before. My first cycle occurred in my mid-twenties, as I entered the work force. I realized in large meetings that I was missing an awful lot of what was being said by coworkers. People, when they are not confident in what they are saying tend to be quieter, and well, some people just have small voices. Nonet