Audrey J. Orlando--ACCEPTING THE UNCHANGEABLE
Posted by Tom Heringer
Friday, July 24, 2009 8:37:03 PM
Everything seemed normal on that warm summer morning in San Jose. After my morning walk with my neighbor, I came back to read the paper. After about ten minutes the telephone rang. I said, "Hello" but heard no answer. I hung up; it rang again and no answer. This happened three times and the fourth time, getting irritated, I switched the receiver to my left ear and said "Hello," ready to chew someone out for hanging up on me.
"Why do you keep hanging up on me?" the voice on the other end said. I then realized that I could hear nothing in my right ear. I screamed, "I'm deaf! I can't hear you!"
Shaking, I called my doctor to see if he could see me right way. I asked a friend to drive me there. The doctor checked me over and could find no infection or any reason for my deafness and referred me to the ear, nose and throat specialist. At the specialist’s office, the next day I was given an audio test and examination. He could find no cause. He gave me prescriptions for steroids and antibiotics and scheduled me for an MRI at the hospital. After the MRI I went back to him and he told me he could find no cause for my deafness so he referred me to a neurologist. The neurologist examined me and ordered an MRA at the hospital. Again I was told that they could find nothing; I felt as if I were going crazy. I was scheduled for another audio test and the diagnosis was I was “profoun dly deaf” in my right ear. The doctor said it was permanent and didn’t know why, but said it may have been a stroke.
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