Eeez as deyer-d-deaf as a p-p-p-p-post sir!

July 2nd, 2008

After my ENT surgery it seems there’s very little difference to my hearing, I’ve been reading up on conductive hearing loss and it seems that I may well have damaged the ossicles, the bones that transfer vibrations from the eardrum (tympanic membrane) to the oval window of the inner ear. The ossicles can be artificially replaced in the case of damage as a result of serious infection or head injury, I believe the stress I placed on them when I frustratedly pumped my hand against my ear because of an irritation, was enough to cause the kind of damage that would be associated with a head injury. But hey, I’m no Ear Doctor. With a follow up appointment in 5 weeks time it is possible I will be booked in for an MRI scan I guess to have a detailed look for damage to these parts of my ear, although it will be quite interesting I will be on yet another waiting list! When I first went deaf last June I booked an appointment with my GP who referred me to ENT, I was given a choice of available appointments in different hospitals across the area, as I assumed it would be a straight forward procedure to drain fluid from the middle ear, I chose the earliest available appointment which happened to be in Uckfield about 30 minutes drive away. However since the emerging complexity of my problem I have been tranferred to Mount Ephraim in Tunbridge Wells (50 minutes drive) as Uckfield are under the Maidstone and District NHS. After various tests and consultations, in hindsight, I wish I had just waited another 2 weeks for a local appointment, such is the Life of Lemmy!

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