My Cancer Journey

Well another weekend and a new hearing aid has been added to the wardrobe, was only $1800.00. I am glad that the Gov paid $500 of that and so did my medical plan at work so left me with the balance of $800.00, and I thought diamonds were expensive. I guess I have one of the cheaper one's and I hear, (no pun intended) they can go for as much as $5000.00.

For those who don't know about my right ear history, I had a perforated drum and a lot of ear infections, I had surgery on it in 2004 to have it repaired but it did not not take as there was not enough of a blood supply going to the drum. As a result of the surgery and my cancer treatment (cisplatin) I lost my hearing in that ear and the drum as well. Now if you shine a light in that ear, you can see the back of the ear drum on the other side.

During the ear test I was told that the nerves behind the ear were still intact and that a hearing aid would work well for me. Now I don't have to go around and ask people to repeat themselves although it will take some time to get use to it. Now I don't have an excuse "What did you say dear"!!