From the difficulty involved in obtaining the initial diagnosis through the considerable difficulties involved in finding an alternative treatment to surgery. My book is a description of the lonely road I travelled, and I hope will be of help to others who find themselves similarly isolated. I wondered then, and was to do so many more times in the future, why consultants seem to prefer reading about a patient, rather than talking to them. I always thought it was ill mannered to read and talk to someone at the same time. Part-time teacher of piano for the University of Wales'.
Musicians value their hearing.
Well some degree of high frequency hearing loss is normal at around your age. She looked in both ears, asked me to repeat various words, and to walk on the spot with my eyes closed. Yet more questions followed about when symptoms first began, whether there was a history of deafness in the family. Well the distortion could be caused by something called accoutrement. If she did she wasn't telling me because every time I asked what might cause something to happen in one ear and not the other I got no response.