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Interesting fact - I'm actually completely deaf in my right ear. Long story short - as a baby I had 22 ear infections in one year, 3 sets of tubes as a young child the hole in my eardrum from the tube in my right ear expanded into one giant gap instead of healing properly, my first replacement eardrum i had done when i was 18 burst and lots of fluid went down to my hearing nerve (completely destroying that hearing nerve so my deafness is now irreversable), i had another replacement eardrum made and tube put in there but my hearing is pretty much fucked...hearing aids do shit because i'm so fucking deaf. everything i hear comes from the left side.
tragic and ironic because i'm such an auditory person.
Of course, Sonic Youth factors into this story of my deafness. I first noticed that something was truely fucked up about my hearing when, about six months after my first replacement eardrum, I was listening to Experimental Jet Set (an album which I had listened to hundreds upon hundreds of times) and started to realize that I was no longer hearing all of the noise . Notes and riffs that I knew by heart had simply gone missing. I thought I was either going crazy or too high to function but it turns out I had completely lost all hearing.
Lame.
Hopefully my left ear won't blow out soon....
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