I had someone talk about their hearing loss and believed that it was stressed related.  I certainly believe that is what happened to me.  In the fall of 2008, I was taking a graduate course at University of Baltimore.  A 6 credit class that is held on Saturdays from 9am to 3:30pm. 

The two professors seem to enjoy the torment of the students in the class.  If you were sick, they say that you better show up in class.  They don't care if you been in a auto accident or in the hospital. And if you miss class, they will be talking about how you missed the class and make fun of you.  I know a student that her father died and she missed the class cuz of his funeral.  And they belittled her and made fun of her when she missed the class and when she came back in the following week.  I mean, come on, her dad died.  That has to be the hardest thing for her to go thru since she was close to him.  Have some RESPECT here.  Things happen, you know? 

I have never endured so much stress from a college professor in my entire life.  I have been attending college since I graduated High School since 1995.  And I enjoy getting my education cuz the technology keeps on changing and you gotta keep up with it. 

From the first post, I mentioned that I suffered from TMJ (Stress-Related), Sudden Hearing Loss (I am so certain that the stress I endured made me have a 25db sudden drop in my hearing).

I don't think that attending classes is about stress, its about learning.  From the class in the fall, I didn't learn a damn thing.  We had a sub for one day, her name was Helen.  Oh my god, I learned so much from her in 10 minutes than I ever did in that semester from these two looney bin teachers. 

Ah, I needed to get that out to the world today.  I am still pissed off at the teachers for what they have done to me.  Shame on them.  It will catch up to them one of these days.

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I took the time to get my two audiograms scanned, one from 2005 and the other from this year (2009).  You can see the difference in my db loss.  My left ear is currently stable at 100db and my ear went down from 75 to 100 db.  I had a CT scan to see if I had Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome.  The scans came with these findings: Unremarkable CT scan of the temporal bones.  Specifically, no evidence for enlargement of the vestibular aqueducts.  Damn, back to square one.  I really would like to find out the cause of my hearing loss at birth and the cause for the sudden drop.  I guess only time will tell.

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I deleted all of my previous blogs, just to get rid of the past from last semester. A lot has happened due to stress from the Words and Images class at UB.  I developed TMJ, causing me a lot of problems with my ears, and jaw.  Recently got a bite guard to help me out during the day.  Also recently lost 25db of my hearing, that's a major hearing loss drop.  Shame on those teachers that love to stress out the students to the max and don't give a damn about them.  It will come back to haunt them one day.

I decided to start blogging my new journey to my new 'ears' in the upcoming months.  Felt that if other CI bloggers do it, why not me?

I won't lie, I am scared shitless about the entire operation part.  I am scared of the pain, the stress I will go thru, the what-if's that lie ahead. I'm sure that's pretty normal for every CI'er.

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