A patient came in a few months back holding an old audiogram from 2019 and a fresh one from last week. Same ear, same “small perforation” the family doctor had been tracking for six years. The hearing loss on paper had gotten worse, though the hole itself, if anything, looked slightly smaller on examination. That […]
There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in for divers after ear surgery. It’s not the pain, and it’s not even the recovery — it’s the not knowing. Will the reef trip you already paid for still happen? Will your ears ever trust the water the way they used to? We hear a version […]
If you speak to ten patients before eardrum surgery, you will hear the same concerns repeated in different words. Will my hearing improve? Will the infection stop coming back? The duration of the repair? These are very logical questions, and it is also the reason behind the tympanoplasty surgery. There is, however, another part of […]