Please Protect Your Ears
Photographer: Wendy Spickerman
Caption: Hyperacusis is sensitivity to sounds. Whether you
know it or not the everyday sounds around us are dangerous, please protect your
ears.
It wasn't that long ago that I had
to go through the ordeal of another review, which could not be accommodated.
There's no reason the information needed for the review could not have been
mailed in, being no one even spoke to me personally. Yet I was put through
another incident of unpleasant pain, which ended me back up at the doctors.
This time the doctor excused me from all work and told me to rest. This
occurred on Jan. 28 2014
Unfortunately today Jan. 31 2014, I
had a doctor's appointment which could not be put of as my speech has been
effected by my medical condition, 'speech abnormality' they call it, nothing
about any of these is normal; not the surgery I had to go through nor my
diagnoses of tinnitus and hyperacusis.
I decided to take my documentation
of it all a step further so they people can understand what I go through as I
go through it. I jotted down some notes on today's outing:
Go to
specialist today!
Sounds
that cause me discomfort and pain in hospital:
Parent
talking loudly
Child
playing with toys in waiting room
People
pushing carts around the hospital
People
walking in the hospital with heels on
(Migraine
started)
Do I
want to go to the cafe' to get something while I wait for my appointment..
that's like asking a person who wants to kill themselves, if they would
like a gun!
(I
understand the receptionist was just being friendly but she had all my papers
and was going through them if she did not know what tinnitus or hyperacusis was
she should have asked before making such a cruel statement to me. A cafeteria
is no place for a person with hyperacusis, all those people talking, cutlery
clanging and dishes. I was sitting in the waiting room with my ear plug visible
as day to see.)
Nausea
setting in... oh god not again!
(It
hit me like a ton of bricks, out of nowhere. I never know when it will start.)
Thank
god for my pill... still waiting
Doctor
says monitoring speech is all we can do at this point. I should keep a recorded
journal. Believes specific letters may cause pain, which may be cause.
(When
I say recorded journal I mean record my voice. Because the speech abnormality
isn't an everyday thing it needs to be documented how I sound and what I am
saying to better help the doctors understand what is happening. She said she
has never had a case like mine better!)
Now
for the ride home... nausea pill not working.
Find a
happy place... find a happy place...
(I
tried to take my mind off it during the long ride home.)
Let's
just say I did NOT find a happy place!
(As soon as I
got home, I ended up running into the bath. You can imagine way!)
All of this
just from one outing! And this was only what I documented at the doctors. I
documented my ride there as well on my phone.
Jan. 31 8:30
am
Sounds, which
caused my discomfort and pain:
Bus gearing
up and coming to a stop.
The sound of
air breaks
Bus on
highway high pitch
Bus lowering
and rising for people to get on (bleeping noise)
People
talking loudly
Kid screaming
Squeaking
windows on small bus
From my third
floor apartment I can hear the breaks on the vehicles as they pass by, it's
like nails on a chalk board only worse.
I have taken
my medication, and done everything, which my doctors have recommended of me
when it all gets to be too much.
Thank god,
the weekend is here, it's a much needed time to heal.
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