Day Two - Visit to the ENT
...Monday morning. I had spent the wee hours of Sunday morning in the ER and was told to contact an ENT on Monday. I had all day Sunday to consult Dr. Google and put a name to what I probably had which was Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss. I read that it is considered a medical emergency and must be treated immediately with steroids - time being of the essence. I started out by calling the ENT referred by the ER, and was told their soonest appointment was the next week. Yes, I told them I had SSNHL, and yes, I argued with them that I needed to be seen right away. Finally the person I was talking to agreed to put me on hold while she passed my concerns onto the nurse on duty only to come back and say, "the nurse says there is no problem waiting a week." I'll add here that the best case scenario is to start treatment with steroids within 24-48 hours of the onset of the hearing loss. Odds of recovery diminish with every day you wait. This was not ...