I’m back! The long medical treatment is over.
[End September 2022]
I was not able to hear in my right ear.
[October 2022]
After 3 days the situation worsened: acute vertigo and sensorineural
deafness (profound hearing loss) in one ear
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorineural_hearing_loss#Sudden_sensorineural_hearing_loss),
without an identifiable cause, probably:
- vascular ischemia of the inner ear or cranial nerve VIII (CN8),
- infarction of the vestibulocochlear nerve https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6203587/.
[October 2022 - January 2023]
I spent months with doctors (ENT, cardiologist,
neurologist, radiologist), in hospitals, clinics, emergency,
magnetic resonance imaging centre, hyperbaric chamber,
bed with nausea and vomit.
The therapy was: hyperbaric chamber [Monday - Friday], a lot of cortisone and more than 10 pills per day. The therapy finished in January with the end of the improvements, “fortunately” from ~90 db to ~50 db. I don’t hear voices (the problems remain https://www.hearingbest.com/hearing-loss-articles/the-special-problems-of-single-sided-deafness/) but I can try a hearing aid insead of a cochlear implant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant).
[December 2022 - January 2023]
Obviously I was inactive: no code, no new project, no improvement, no commit,
no email.
A little something during the last time of medical treatment:
- some port fix/update (https://freshbsd.org/?q=asiciliano).
- private academic/freebsd/sysctl project https://twitter.com/alfsiciliano/status/1613631215805861900.
- blog post FreeBSD disable stereo sound.
[February 2023 - June 2023]
New problem: sudden and severe tinnitus
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus) in the “bad” ear.
It was a whistle and disturbed the understanding of voices even in the good ear.
Again the theray for several months. Fortunately tinnitus has become
“acceptable”, I always hear a noise like a fan or air conditioner,
not a whistle.
[Now]
A solution for tinnitus and sensorineural hearing loss does not exist.
I am looking for a good hearing care professional. 🦻🙂👂
Anyway I’m back in front of a computer! I have over 50,000 unread emails! I’ll probably never read them, sorry. You could resend your emails if they are important.
Finally I am restarting to code! Some new/update project is coming soon, stay tuned!
