'What's run out?' Will come my reply
You see, along with the major heart defects, and internal organ reversal I do carry other less serious complications.
One being I'm deaf in one ear. This was a result from a shunt operation which I had when I was about two years old. Although it was always denied by the Hospital that it was during the operation that it occurred. After having the operation it was apparent that a nerve had been severed which caused my left hand side of my face to seize up... it was after this operation that my parents became aware of my deafness although it had been claimed I could have been deaf since birth.
The left half of my face is seized from where a nerve had possibly been accidentally been severed.
'Why don't you sue? You'd probably get a good couple of grand' This is a regular question I am asked and and it annoys me every time. The answer is quite simple...
Why would I take the Hospital, Doctors and Nurses who saved my life to court? I could never stand in front of these people and start throwing blame, trying to claim money off they're backs, when the fact is if they hadn't been doing the procedure in the first place I wouldn't been here today. The only thing I'd say to them is Thank You.
'If your deaf in one year why do you wear both earplugs for your iPod?'
A lot of people don't actually seem to believe that I am deaf, they think I'm winding them up and the above question I get asked quite often. And again, the answer is simple...
If I'm walking down the road or through a shopping centre and someone I happen to know sees me there's a good chance they will say hi or call after me, then if I walk straight past them ignoring them with only having one earplug in they will probably think 'What an ignorant git'. So I always wear both plugs as not offend anyone or seem rude. I learnt this from experience, it's probably why a lot of people don't talk to me anymore.
I also wear have them in when I go into phone shops, that way when the hyenas pounce at me trying to flog the latest Apple phone, Orange broadband or Banana fax machine, I can completely ignore them. I don't want your new phone, I like my phone, it's an iPhone... That my friend is a brick, a useless prick and yes, it offends me.
#Benefit of being deaf in one ear:
Trying to catch some shut eye with 2 kids shouting, screaming and bouncing around the house like its a giant trampoline... I just turn over, rest my good ear on the pillow and... silence... yawn.
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