Monday, October 4, 2021

EVENTUALITY & HINDSIGHT ........THE ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRING OF PRODIGIOUS YOUTHFULNESS' CURELESS CONUNDRUM

 the aftereffects of childhood and early adult injuries manifest in aging body components......When 10, I was thrown from a speeding bike, falling on my head and rushed to the emergency room, with a gash in my skull's integument and a concussion that led to many years of migraine headaches, exacerbated by the  oncoming hormone rushes of adolescence... At 21, and again in my late twenties, I was gas-poisoned by Natural gas leakages......Now, half a century later, a complex array of 'symptoms' has arisen, and been largely neglected by me....more avoidance than denial......So....enter some more current 'Medical Science'.....to discover that both the 'ringing' in my ears, due to youthful concert-going to Frank Zappa and, even, Black Sabbath 'Shows'......and my current vertigo and nausea.......are due to structural changes in my 'inner ears'......The persistent tinnitus is the after math of aural subjugation by loud music having destroyed cilia and damaged other components that translate sound into electrical signals that are sent to the brain for further processing;  the Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo is due to the degeneration of the vestibular system in the inner ear due to aging.......So......Doctors' Orders......no climbing on ladders, rushing up/down stairs, standing on chairs to hang pictures or retrieve pots and pans from overhead shelving.....no sharp turns or back-seat sitting in vehicles......no bicycling.....forget about sports, more arduous than miniature golf or croquet..........  'Aging' is not for the Young, but, counter to any TV ads for Eternal Youth Drugs, the aftermath of Youth.....

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