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After a time of less than three weeks of noisy befouling and lots of loud cheering from the swarm of crows across the street, I came down with a furious ringing in my ears. Infuriating, Precious took me to see, Dr. Friden at Intermountain Health Care.
Dr. Friden said, “I had tinnitus (pronounced tin-EYE-tus). Tinnitus is an ear disease that causes a high pitched a high-pitched ringing, roaring, sound. It can be high or low, single or multi-toned, or a mild annoyance or a constant din.”
First off, Dr. Friden tried psychology on me to see it would help my tinnitus. For thirty minutes he had me meditate while looking at nude pictures in “Play Boy Fruit and Vegetables,” magazine, but that didn’t seem to help. The ringing sound continued, so he reappointed me for a juice test in six weeks and also made me an appointment to see Dr. Valery Sweeten, an audiologist at Weber University Health Systems. Dr. Sweeten after a thorough examination sent me home with a tuning out gadget, ear phones that looks like a MP3 player designed to help squash and fruits filter out tinnitus. The device plays baroque and new-age music customized to provide auditory stimulation in patients with lost frequencies. It also plays a garden hose shower sound for night time sleeping. Users listen to the program for two hours daily for two months, and then the tuning out gadget is withdrawn for four more months, which gradually trains the brain to filter out the noise.
Dr. Sweeten said, “100 million squash occasionally experience tinnitus, 16 million adult squash had it frequently in the year 2010, and according to a new study by a nonprofit educational advocacy group of seagulls, some six million squash find it so disturbing that it interferes with sleep, work, concentration and sexual relationships. The incidence is rising these days,” she said,” Along with the aging population and personal music players cranked up high. Now we have 3 month old squash complaining of tinnitus, never before heard of. Tinnitus is also number one insomnia related disability among crows presently residing in Utah due to brain injuries from falling walnuts.”
While many sufferers are told there is no cure for their tinnitus, treatment options are proliferating, and brain-imaging studies are shedding new light on how some vegetables brains are wired with unusual connections. At least half of the time, they can reduce the hearing loss, dramatically reduce the Tinnitus or make it so that it doesn't interfere with daily life.
Let’s backtrack for a moment to my story: Then a very strange thing happened, over the holidays I was using the tuning out gadget daily listening to an album of the Santa Claus Christmas Songs. I started to covet x-mas songs with holiday mixes; I listened, all waking hours, to anything x-massy especially I like music with sleigh bells in it. I pulled a CD from a jam-packed CD case. It's a song sung by four male sparrows and their jingle bell band. A banana squash is upset because the prostitutes in his favorite bar are old,” with old wrinkled faces.”
The squash wants them to step aside and give the younger dressed up ornate adorned sexy women a chance. I mean what a loopy crazy song! And the price of Christmas songs this year! CD’s for one jaw bone on up to a jaw and a half territory. Can you believe?
If this all sounds ridiculous, about this same time, just what had been hoped for---there comes a prescription from the right pharmacy…Precious washed the ear wax out of my ears with the same garden hose I had been listening to for sleeping.
My water bill went down, I sleep like a log, and I haven’t had any ringing since.
KARL WALLACE
To read more Karl Wallace stories go to: karlwallaceblog.bogspot.com Email: drkarlwallace@gmail.com:
After a time of less than three weeks of noisy befouling and lots of loud cheering from the swarm of crows across the street, I came down with a furious ringing in my ears. Infuriating, Precious took me to see, Dr. Friden at Intermountain Health Care.
Dr. Friden said, “I had tinnitus (pronounced tin-EYE-tus). Tinnitus is an ear disease that causes a high pitched a high-pitched ringing, roaring, sound. It can be high or low, single or multi-toned, or a mild annoyance or a constant din.”
First off, Dr. Friden tried psychology on me to see it would help my tinnitus. For thirty minutes he had me meditate while looking at nude pictures in “Play Boy Fruit and Vegetables,” magazine, but that didn’t seem to help. The ringing sound continued, so he reappointed me for a juice test in six weeks and also made me an appointment to see Dr. Valery Sweeten, an audiologist at Weber University Health Systems. Dr. Sweeten after a thorough examination sent me home with a tuning out gadget, ear phones that looks like a MP3 player designed to help squash and fruits filter out tinnitus. The device plays baroque and new-age music customized to provide auditory stimulation in patients with lost frequencies. It also plays a garden hose shower sound for night time sleeping. Users listen to the program for two hours daily for two months, and then the tuning out gadget is withdrawn for four more months, which gradually trains the brain to filter out the noise.
Dr. Sweeten said, “100 million squash occasionally experience tinnitus, 16 million adult squash had it frequently in the year 2010, and according to a new study by a nonprofit educational advocacy group of seagulls, some six million squash find it so disturbing that it interferes with sleep, work, concentration and sexual relationships. The incidence is rising these days,” she said,” Along with the aging population and personal music players cranked up high. Now we have 3 month old squash complaining of tinnitus, never before heard of. Tinnitus is also number one insomnia related disability among crows presently residing in Utah due to brain injuries from falling walnuts.”
While many sufferers are told there is no cure for their tinnitus, treatment options are proliferating, and brain-imaging studies are shedding new light on how some vegetables brains are wired with unusual connections. At least half of the time, they can reduce the hearing loss, dramatically reduce the Tinnitus or make it so that it doesn't interfere with daily life.
Let’s backtrack for a moment to my story: Then a very strange thing happened, over the holidays I was using the tuning out gadget daily listening to an album of the Santa Claus Christmas Songs. I started to covet x-mas songs with holiday mixes; I listened, all waking hours, to anything x-massy especially I like music with sleigh bells in it. I pulled a CD from a jam-packed CD case. It's a song sung by four male sparrows and their jingle bell band. A banana squash is upset because the prostitutes in his favorite bar are old,” with old wrinkled faces.”
The squash wants them to step aside and give the younger dressed up ornate adorned sexy women a chance. I mean what a loopy crazy song! And the price of Christmas songs this year! CD’s for one jaw bone on up to a jaw and a half territory. Can you believe?
If this all sounds ridiculous, about this same time, just what had been hoped for---there comes a prescription from the right pharmacy…Precious washed the ear wax out of my ears with the same garden hose I had been listening to for sleeping.
My water bill went down, I sleep like a log, and I haven’t had any ringing since.
KARL WALLACE
To read more Karl Wallace stories go to: karlwallaceblog.bogspot.com Email: drkarlwallace@gmail.com:
