Kelso Ridge Preview
Slowly but surely back into the swing of things over here. The weeks of being cooped up seem to be over. Before vacation, I decided to have a second opinion done on my left ear. I met with a doctor who did a record review of my past treatments and did his own audiogram and synopsis. The conclusion he reached was not a good one, but in a sense it was. His findings were kind of in line with what I was thinking. I felt there was a good chance the hearing wasn't there. All that could be felt in there is a loud, constant ringing. He told me that the hearing in the left is permanently gone, nerve included. He says the cyst was so large it had eroded all of the tiny ear bones used to transfer sounds from the inner ear and connect them with the nerve that makes sense of them. This cyst had also affected the balance mechanism inside. He says the balance will return, the hearing will not. It's what he called a dead ear . I wa...