In early 2004 I suffered what doctors think was a viral infection in my inner ear. Short term this meant a lot of stuff (if you want details you can go to this link and read the gory details http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/856215-overview). Long term and long story short, it left me profoundly deaf in my left ear.
Now, being deaf in one ear is a blessing*. A blessing because, lets face it, I still have the other ear!: I can still communicate, I can hear my children's voices, I can go to movies, I can do all of the things other people with 2 ears can do... almost. OK, so that's what the "*"represents, it's my caveat to the "blessing." And that caveat is that though I can hear, I can't hear normally. For example, I can't hear where sounds are coming from. If you want to see something funny, call to me across the way and then sit back and watch me spin around in a befuddled 360 trying to figure out where they heck you are (oh, and yelling out "I'm over here!" won't help, now matter how loudly you yell it). Now, it may sound trivial to want to know where sounds are coming from... until you imagine trying to find your child who is screaming in pain and you can't tell whether they are upstairs, downstairs or outside. Yes, we uni-eared folks really do face some serious issues.
So here I am, 6 years later and it is hear that this blog begins: my journey to full fledged bilateral hearing again with the the help of Lee Gerdes' "Brain State Technology." The journey begins....
