Hi to all the good folk out there, I have been been lurking in the background for several months now trying to gather information and get my head around this subject and I think I have finally found the right place, so a "BIG HI" from the not so sunny South Pacific, yes we do get snow (splenda) down here.
A quick background on me, joined the Navy in '74 left in '06, yeap it's short, I don't want to bore you, been most places, and go back to some.
Well my journey started 10 years ago with an MRI to try to find out why I had developed significant hearing loss in one ear, thankfully it was attributed as Noise Induced Hearing Loss, Too Many Noisy Bars While Overseas I suppose and nothing to do with the job, Yeah Right!!.
Anyway a couple of years ago I noticed I had developed tinnitus in my left ear, it was strange that it was at a lower frequency that my right, alarms bells should have started then, but no I let it go. Finally after complaints from "She Who Must Be Obeyed", off I went to the audiologist. After the new tests and reviewing my previous results it was not long before I was was back in the Clanking, Buzzing, Whirring Tube again, used the usual joke with the staff after the scan "anything in there", the response was muted, second bell.
Yeap, I got a hell of birthday gift this year, the day after I turned 52 the news was out, an AN 20x19mm just touching the brain, and like most I didn't even know what an AN was, let alone what to do about it. Straight home and on the net, big mistake, the first sites I found were the "Doom and Gloom" Stories, then all the techy Data, forget the AN the brain was in overload. Took a week to sift the wheat from chaff, soooooo here I am, and once again "HI"
Met my ENT Specialist three weeks ago have gone through the options, and due to see the Neurologist tomorrow so I thought it was time to come into the light.
Don't know how to finish this so I will leave it there, will post after the appointmet tomorrow.
