[Leo.G (Leo)]

Alex I hope your sight recovers and it's nothing major.
My son is deaf, only 80% from a young age (born totally deaf and we didn't know till he was 4, neither did the neurologists and specialists who did MRIs and other tests when he was a baby).
Six months back he hit his head now he's lost the small amount of hearing he had. I pleaded with doctors who are IDIOTS and the ENT, well, the referring doctor has to send the referral through and the GOD in Orange will triage the referrals based on doctors words and decide who he will see and when. And he's been on holidays all of April.
My sons condition which we were always warned a bump on the head could deafen him for life, Large Vestibulal Aqueduct Syndrome, it may be too late to have a chance of recovering his hearing.
I had one new doctor scream "a bump on the head can't cause pressure in the Eustachian tube", I nearly dropped the conceited PIG. I did drop off a 7 page PDF document from medical specialists on the condition the very next day.
My son has suggested two options to relieve the pressure himself, slam his nose into something and break it or punch a needle through his own ear drum. I've been pleading with him not to do either but I'm getting screwed by an overworked system and doctors who wouldn't know their heads from their @rses. My own doctor recommend I take my son for a hearing test, he was born with congenital deafness (In saying all of this my son won't go to the doctors and my doc who did know him retired a few years back BUT, it's all in my sons records at that clinic we've been attending for 24 years). I've never been fond of doctors (55 plus years in the system) but I respect many who are extremely smart. The smart ones listen.
My son needed the pressure relieved just after the incident and now there's little chance of ever recovering the small percentage of natural hearing he had and he'll spend the rest of his life in near silence. Though the way he talks the rest will only be months.
And yes, he has other issues and I'm his carer and always on edge.


There's a lot of days I just wish I was dead!