(2 of 2) Was definitely inflammation and not a sudden death of thousands of cochlear hair cells like I originally feared. Still gets annoying sometimes, but a little rest, some water, and stretching my neck and jaw, and I'm better.
Keith Handy
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(1 of 2) Four year mark: right now it's kinda like if I had just listened to a tape on a walkman and it's at the blank part at the end and I forgot to switch it off but there's some tape hiss. I listen to whole albums in the car and it's mostly great, with occasional annoying moments.
48+ hours of the calmest, quietest, least reactive T since November 2020. This is at about 3.5 years.
Three year report coming up. Should be a pretty good one.
If it stays roughly where it's been the past few days, I might consider declaring myself "out of the woods." Very cautiously optimistic.
A little early to post my 14 month update, but at this point it seems like it's going to be a good one.
If there are no trees falling in the woods, but someone hears them falling anyway, is there a sound?
In the absence of science, pseudoscience will rush in to fill the void.
If a cow could master circular breathing and "moo" without stopping... that's one of my sounds.
An "ear [...] specialist" who can only diagnose the canal & drum is like an "auto mechanic" who can only change wiper blades.
I tolerate music when I'm around it, but don't yet trust my ears enough to listen to music I like of my own volition. Maybe in a few months.
One of my best shifts since this began. I have to keep reminding myself the T is there.
Went to bed early, woke at 10 PM and experienced TRANQUILITY in a way I haven't since pre-pandemic. I am healing. For real.
Milestone: this morning I could hear my refrigerator AS A REFRIGERATOR from ~15 feet away, not as a low budget slasher soundtrack.
Last November... I hope it was the subwoofer... because my chance of ever doing that to myself again is exactly zero.
Pretty mild trip to the grocery store. Let's see how my class goes this afternoon.
Another good/quiet class (see last week's update).
*Very* mild during my one-on-one two-hour afternoon class. Approaching normal hearing for a good chunk of it.
Wasn't *the* quietest morning, but I was talking to myself in the car (yes, I do that) and really appreciating the clarity of my own voice.
A few encouraging days, then yesterday was kind of ragey all afternoon & evening. This morning it's... on the fence.
Good ear day... mostly.
Man, this thing is all over the place. From "it's inaudible" to "this sound is OK" to "I can't live with this" - all in the span of minutes.
Shawshank Redemption is easily in my all-time top five movies. If you can watch it - even if you need subtitles - imagine it as a metaphor.
T is pretty light today. I'm currently more preoccupied with a missing package.
As expected, got worse again, then better, but not as good as saturday morning. Still, if it could get there once, it can get there again.
Milestone: quietest morning of the whole year. Prepared for continued fluctuation, of course.
I no longer post every time I have a quieter period, because they're frequent enough not to be newsworthy.
Woke to a nice soft hiss and nothing else. The other sounds creep in as I get moving, but it's a nice moment.
Wishing everyone adequate protection from noise today, as per your personal needs.
Impressively low baseline yesterday; wish this stuff was more linear & predictable.
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