Asymmetric Hearing Loss
Track of the day - Partlife - Prince Edward Island.
A female pheasant has taken up residence in the garden. She moved in yesterday and is still with us this morning.
After my recent hearing retest the nice little hearing tester guy wrote a letter to my doctor so I made an appointment to find out what was in the letter. When I phoned the surgery I discovered that the doctor only holds surgeries on two days a week. I finally got to see him last Friday, two weeks after I phoned to make the appointment.
"You should see an Ear Nose and Throat specialist," he said. He explained that my test results indicate an asymmetric hearing loss. In other words it's not the same for both ears.
I explained that I'd got fed up during the test and hadn't pressed the button to register some of the sounds for my right ear.
"That might explain the results, but you should still see a specialist. He'll want to do a scan to see if there's a problem with the auditory nerve on the right side of your head. Your particular hearing loss could be caused by a growth on the auditory nerve. There probably isn't anything wrong but unless you have a scan you won't know whether there is or not."
So there you have it.
In my eagerness to prove that I needed an aid in my right ear as well as my left, I've let myself in for a session in a scanner, if I can find a specialist who can offer me an appointment.
The doctor explained that thanks to the latest computerised Tube and Book system that wasn't a problem.
"Have a word with the receptionist. She'll arrange it all."
I had a word with the receptionist. The Tube and Book system offered me two local appointments during a week when I'll be in Dorset and one appointment at a hospital miles away. I thought she was joking but apparently not.
I told her that if there was an appointment available in the South of France, I'd think about it, otherwise I wasn't interested in travelling vast distances to see a specialist.
In the end she gave me a letter that explained how I could access the system myself and arrange my own appointment.
Everything went well until I get to the what's available page, all I got was
No one speaks clearly these days.
Either that or I'm going deaf.
A female pheasant has taken up residence in the garden. She moved in yesterday and is still with us this morning.
Tube and Book System
"It's called the Tube and Book system. We put your details into a computer and it tells us all the available slots for seeing an ear nose and throat specialist."After my recent hearing retest the nice little hearing tester guy wrote a letter to my doctor so I made an appointment to find out what was in the letter. When I phoned the surgery I discovered that the doctor only holds surgeries on two days a week. I finally got to see him last Friday, two weeks after I phoned to make the appointment.
"You should see an Ear Nose and Throat specialist," he said. He explained that my test results indicate an asymmetric hearing loss. In other words it's not the same for both ears.
I explained that I'd got fed up during the test and hadn't pressed the button to register some of the sounds for my right ear.
"That might explain the results, but you should still see a specialist. He'll want to do a scan to see if there's a problem with the auditory nerve on the right side of your head. Your particular hearing loss could be caused by a growth on the auditory nerve. There probably isn't anything wrong but unless you have a scan you won't know whether there is or not."
So there you have it.
In my eagerness to prove that I needed an aid in my right ear as well as my left, I've let myself in for a session in a scanner, if I can find a specialist who can offer me an appointment.
The doctor explained that thanks to the latest computerised Tube and Book system that wasn't a problem.
"Have a word with the receptionist. She'll arrange it all."
I had a word with the receptionist. The Tube and Book system offered me two local appointments during a week when I'll be in Dorset and one appointment at a hospital miles away. I thought she was joking but apparently not.
I told her that if there was an appointment available in the South of France, I'd think about it, otherwise I wasn't interested in travelling vast distances to see a specialist.
In the end she gave me a letter that explained how I could access the system myself and arrange my own appointment.
Everything went well until I get to the what's available page, all I got was
" Step 2 of 3: Choose Your Appointment.What worried me most is not the system's inability to offer me an appointment but that the Tube and Book system turned out to be the Choose and Book system.
There are currently no appointments available, please try again later."
No one speaks clearly these days.
Either that or I'm going deaf.
Posted by Milt at 9:18:00 am
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