Even grateful for a big cat named Milo, who likes to drink out of a green cup in the big bathtub.
I woke up one morning this week with a strange ringing in my right ear.
Now, I have had tinnitus in both my ears for just about as long as I can remember. It generally doesn’t bother me much. I go through my days, my weeks, and hardly notice it. In fact, I forget about it for long stretches of time. That morning, though, I had a strange sound breakthrough. It was loud enough to wake me up, and it stayed with me most of the day. It is hard to describe: there was a hum that was louder than usual, along with a kind of whistle that only showed up with sounds that had a higher pitch. So, when I tried to listen to a podcast on my drive to work, some of the host’s words sounded squealy. When I was doing massages in the afternoon with my “spa music” playlist, and a song with high tinkly piano notes came on, those sounds reverberated. Plus, the lower, constant tone was louder than normal. It was bad enough to almost block out all the normal tinnitus noise from my left ear. That never happens. That didn’t feel good.
It was enough to make me a little crazy. Continue Reading…
