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Tony Cooper <
tonyco...@gmail.com> posted:
I have an ear infection, in both ears, that started
Friday night and became progressively worse during the
weekend. I managed to get an emergency appointment with
an ENT physician on Monday afternoon.
At the moment, both ear canals are swollen almost shut
and I have wicks in place in both ears. My hearing is
about 95% gone.
The resulting silence is weird. Everything is muted
except the sounds within my head. My own breathing
sounds like ocean waves during a storm. The antibiotic
and pain medications require a lot of napping, and I go
to sleep to a roaring surf of sound.
Running my hand across my beard stubble produces the
grating sound of a rasp on metal. Chewing toast creates
a sound not unlike a metal drum of rocks and ball-
bearings being rotated. I am startled when my wife
suddenly appears beside or behind me because I don't hear
her approach. When she wants to say something to me, she
has to stand directly in front of me and I hear her
muffled voice and read her lips.
This makes me wonder what deaf people hear. I know they
can't hear outside sounds, but do they hear their own
internal sounds?
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
A number of deaf persons have shared with me that they
"invent" sounds for what they see.
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://bit.do/jaimaharaj
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