The "Doc, Heal Thyself!" Story

It was an ordinary day. Sitting in Miracle Ear getting my hearing aides adjusted. A few months ago I started getting really bad headaches on the left side of my head. Almost mad me sick in the stomach. Only way to get rid of the headaches was to fall asleep. When I would wake up, they would be gone. One weekend we traveled to State College, Pennsylvania to visit with our traveling friends Jerry and Just Sue. I had my hearing aides in my ears as I usually did and after about an hour I had such a bad headache that I had to pull the car over and have Carol drive. Took a Tylenol and closed my eyes. Must have dozed for 10 to 15 minutes and when I woke up I was fine. On the return trip I had no problems, but when I reached home it hit me. Same spot above my left ear and radiating out from there. Another pill and a nap. Half an hour later I was fine. Went to the doctor shortly after those episodes to see what he said it might be. "New glasses?" he asked. Nope. Then I asked if my hearing aides may have any thing to do with the headaches. He told me he doubted it, but you do have many many nerve endings on the side of your head, around your ear. So I jumped to my own conclusions and stopped wearing the hearing aides. After a few months being pain free, but getting tired of hearing everyone complain that I wasn't paying attention to what they said, I decided to call Patrick at Miracle Ear, where I bought the aides, and ask him. He set up an appointment for today and we talked. He had others that experienced the same thing, but it was never proven that it was the hearing aides that were to blame. He did make the air opening in the aides bigger to help relieve pressure in my ear and reduced the volume in each aide. Then he told me he was going to remove some of the mold so it wouldn't be as tight in my left ear. I took off my glasses to relax and he left the room with the aide. About five minutes passed and he came back with the aide and had me try it in my ear. Better, but still a little tight. As he was leaving the room to take more off the aide, he grabbed my glasses that were on his work table and walked next door where he was working on the hearing aide. About 30 seconds later I heard him call loudly for his assistant, Maureen. I heard some commotion and then a few laughs and then "LDub, you're not going to believe this," he said. OK, what! maybe something radically wrong with the aide that would give me the headaches. Nope, when he went back to work on the aide he put on MY glasses thinking they were his, which by the way looked exactly like his, and when he looked at the aide everything was blurry. He looked around the room and everything was blurry. That's when he called for Maureen. He thought he was having a stroke!! She said she walked in and he was white, probably from fright. I need my glasses for long distance while all he had were powerful reading glasses. At least he was able to solve his problem. Now we'll see if he solved mine. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.