Since I was too young to remember, I have faced the issue of progressive hearing loss in my left ear and possibly, in the future, my right ear as well. I wore a hearing aid for a while in elementary school and I continuously faced the question what is that while someone pointed to the side of my head. Back then hearing aids were larger and more noticeable than they are today and mine was a dark green that did little to hide itself. Eventually I got rid of the hearing aid and just lived without it for several years. I suppose I had difficulty hearing but it wasn’t too difficult. At the beginning of high school me and my mother went back to the otologist after years of neglect and learned that the loss of hearing in that ear had progressed further. Eventually we decided that I should have a stapedectomy, a surgery that would replace a small bone in my ear called the stapes with a miniscule metal prosthesis. This surgery had a high success rate but would likely cause me to set of metal alarms when I walked through them. I decided quickly that I would have the surgery and correct my impaired hearing. I remember the events before the surgery well. I was very cold and they had to give me warm blankets so they could put an IV in my arm. What took place during and mostly after the surgery I have little ability to remember. Anesthesia…show more content… For several months that depression caused me no small amount of trauma and my girlfriend breaking up with me during that time did nothing to help. Yet I managed to overcome it. The medication my doctor prescribed me, the same kind my dad uses, helps but I think I overcame it mostly on my own. I learned to be happy with who I was and not let my disadvantages become roadblocks to success. I taught myself to be happy, carry on, and fight through it with hope that one day I would achieve a life full of
