I've had quite excruciating pain much of the time for a few years in my ears and finally the op is upon me. Tomorrow night I will be pain free but deaf as a post without bone conductive hearing aids and even then my frequency range will be limited, I'll depend on AI assisted software to make many voices and sounds audible by changing frequencies to ones I can hear. So its the last day to hear music properly. I'm laying back listing to Mike Dawes' (a rather good guitarist) playlist below, some of my childhood faves from the 80s probably will stick on Whiplash later and some orchestral. Too much to ever hope to listen to. Imagination fails me a bit today, on sure there's something I'll wish I'd thought of. What would you play on your last day to actually hear it as it should be? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=RDEM3H4kvSZl7NwhtvCHw1RrLA&playnext=1
For me, old Blues guys, Led Zepplin, Stones, The Who, Red Hot Chilil Peppers, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Allman Brothers, Beatles. Holy cow my list would be too long for a day. The best to you
I like all of that too, it is too much to lose really and talking with my other brothers I think I'm just going to skip the surgery. The pain is nasty but in six months free if it I'll have forgotten it was bad however be tormented by losing the hearing. I'll just keep going. 'One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.' Bob Marley
I agree with your choice of enduring the pain. At least you have the choice of alternative methods of pain treatment. But once they take the hearing away, it is lost forever. What a shitty situation to be in, sorry for your conundrum. If I may ask, what specific condition do you have that would cause them to gut your middle/inner ear?