After a time of less than three weeks of noisy bafooning and loud cheering from the swarms of crows across the street, I came down with a furious ringing in my ears. It was infuriating.
Precious took me to Dr. John Friden at Intermountain Health Care. Dr. Friden said,
“I had tinnitus (pronounced tin-EYE-tus). Tinnitus is an ear disease that causes a high-ringing and roaring sound. It can be high or low, single or multi-toned, a mild annoyance pitched, or a constant din.”
First of all, Dr. Friden used psychology on me to see if it would help my tinnitus. For thirty minutes, he had me look 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 to come in in 6 weeks for a chorophil juice test, come in fasting for 12 hours.
At the same time he made me an appointment to see Dr. Sweeten, an audiologist at Weber University Health Systems. Dr. Sweeten, checked my hearing and prescribed a tuning-out gadget with ear phones, designed to help squash and fruits filter out tinnitus. It looked like a MP3 player The device can play baroque and new age music customized to provide auditory stimulation in patients with lost frequencies. It also plays a garden hose shower sound for nighttime 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 Users listen to the program for two hours daily for two months, and then the tuning-out gadget is withdrawn for four more months. It gradually trains the brain to filter out the noise.
Dr. Sweeten said, “On average 100 million squash occasionally experience tinnitus, 16 million adult squash had it frequently in the year 2010. 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 along with the aging population and personal music players cranked up high. Now we often have three-month-old squash complaining of tinnitus, never before heard of. Tinnitus is also the number-one 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 vegetable’s brains are wired with unusual connections. At least half of the time, they can reduce the hearing loss, and dramatically reduce the tinnitus or make it so that it doesn't interfere with ones daily life."
Precious took me to Dr. John Friden at Intermountain Health Care. Dr. Friden said,
“I had tinnitus (pronounced tin-EYE-tus). Tinnitus is an ear disease that causes a high-ringing and roaring sound. It can be high or low, single or multi-toned, a mild annoyance pitched, or a constant din.”
First of all, Dr. Friden used psychology on me to see if it would help my tinnitus. For thirty minutes, he had me look 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 to come in in 6 weeks for a chorophil juice test, come in fasting for 12 hours.
At the same time he made me an appointment to see Dr. Sweeten, an audiologist at Weber University Health Systems. Dr. Sweeten, checked my hearing and prescribed a tuning-out gadget with ear phones, designed to help squash and fruits filter out tinnitus. It looked like a MP3 player The device can play baroque and new age music customized to provide auditory stimulation in patients with lost frequencies. It also plays a garden hose shower sound for nighttime 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. It gradually trains the brain to filter out the noise.
Dr. Sweeten said, “On average 100 million squash occasionally experience tinnitus, 16 million adult squash had it frequently in the year 2010. 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 along with the aging population and personal music players cranked up high. Now we often have three-month-old squash complaining of tinnitus, never before heard of. Tinnitus is also the number-one 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 vegetable’s brains are wired with unusual connections. At least half of the time, they can reduce the hearing loss, and dramatically reduce the tinnitus or make it so that it doesn't interfere with ones daily life."
Back to my story: 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-masy, especially, music with sleigh bells.
I pulled a CD from a jam-packed CD case to play for Dr. Sweeton. It's a song sung by four male sparrows and their jingle-bell band. A banana squash was upset because the prostitutes in his favorite bar were “old” with old wrinkled faces.” The squash wants them to step aside and give the younger squash a chance. I mean what a crazy song! And the price of Christmas songs this year! CD’s for one jaw bone on up to a jaw and a half. Can you believe it?
Surprisingly, too, at about this same time, just what Dr. Sweeten had hoped for a prescription at 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 has gone down, I sleep like a log, and no more ringing ears since.
I pulled a CD from a jam-packed CD case to play for Dr. Sweeton. It's a song sung by four male sparrows and their jingle-bell band. A banana squash was upset because the prostitutes in his favorite bar were “old” with old wrinkled faces.” The squash wants them to step aside and give the younger squash a chance. I mean what a crazy song! And the price of Christmas songs this year! CD’s for one jaw bone on up to a jaw and a half. Can you believe it?
Surprisingly, too, at about this same time, just what Dr. Sweeten had hoped for a prescription at 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 has gone down, I sleep like a log, and no more ringing ears since.
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