Just Nicky

Getting better all the time June 14, 2005

Although it feels very slow, each day I’m getting better. For the most part I feel fairly normal, apart from the tinnitus, flashes of dizziness if I move too fast and a tendency to tire more quickly that usual.

The dizziness and tiredness are things I’m sure will pass with time. The tinnitus I think I’m just going to have to live with and, at the end of the day, that’s not all that much really.

It is annoying and it does wear me down. As far as I can tell from researching on the net there’s really nothing to be done about it apart from training myself to ignore it and providing my brain with other sounds to work with. The former will be something I’m sure I’ll acheive over time, the latter is going to be a process of trial and error as some sounds exacerbate the tinnitus.

The good things are that I think I may have regained a little bit of hearing in my left ear and today I drove on our trip to the beach (Mark drove back). The hearing could well be my imagination as it’s only twice that I’ve thought I could hear stuff, so I’ll wait until my next hearing test (in about six months) before I get too excited. The driving, though, was really, really good. It was an easy drive, just straight down the freeway without at a quiet time, without having to deal with too much going on, but it felt nice to be in control of a car again. I don’t mind letting Mark drive when we go places together, but I do like knowing that I can get in the car and go when I want - not that I’ll be going far for a while.