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So they looked at my ear on the MRI. They were gone a long time, in a conference room with a few other health care professionals, while I was sitting alone in an exam room by myself.

When they returned, they told me my inner ear looked good, and they'd like to do some hearing tests. But I was missing a little part of my skull next to my ear, where the jaw bone would normally rest. This explained my neck pain; my tendons/muscles were constantly being pulled due to the lack of bone. 5/

Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 2y ago

This lack of bone also made them hesitant to do a canalplasty, which would open the ear canal, b/c they were afraid my body would keep trying to "heal" over the opening.

They suggested an ear reconstructive surgery and a BAHA.

I already said I didn't want to perform only a cosmetic surgery, b/c I didn't see the point And I thought it wasn't covered by health insurance--it wasn't in the past.

So 1st I needed to take a hearing test for my "deaf" side--something that required special equipment. 6/

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Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦 2y ago

Obvs, the hearing test revealed that my inner ear worked GREAT. There was just no way for sound to reach it, b/c of the lack of ear canal. This kind of deafness is called conductive hearing loss (sound waves are obstructed from reaching the inner ear) due to aural atresia (lack of adequate ear canal).

The solution is a bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) which bypasses the lack of ear canal and conducts sound vibrations directly through the skull into the inner ear. Isn't science cool?