Todd, where are you located- I took a quick look at your web site and didn't
find your location.
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Joe Zorzin
http://www.forestmeister.com



"Muzz" wrote in message
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Hello group

A freak occurrence? According to two doctors it appears so. You be the
judge:

A little over 24 hours ago I was teaching a summer student basic GPS data
collection. Near days end, while walking a boundary line I felt searing
pain
in my right ear for a fraction of a second. Next thing I knew I was waking
up very very dizzy, akin to the "spinning room" syndrome from too much
booze.

My student said that I had been out cold for only a couple of seconds when
I
came to saying that I was not alright when she prompted me. She had
witnessed a small branch stub enter my ear and it knocked me out while
tearing my eardrum making me completely deaf in my right ear. To top it
off
I fell, with arms at my side, face first into a stump. Lucky for me it was
very rotten and it crumbled on impact. The force of the hit made my neck
snap back and now I have severe neck muscle strain as a result.

After many X-RAYS of my neck and a lot of prodding of my ear the diagnosis
is this:

Neck will recover - now taking muscle relaxants.
Ear - the tear covers approximately 30% of my eardrum surface. They told
me
that 90% of the people will recover from it within 6 weeks but because of
the large size of the opening I may have to undergo surgery to repair it.
Time will tell. They said I should recover most of my hearing in my ear
but
I will most likely suffer some hearing loss. I am on oral and ear drop
antibiotics to treat this. Tylenol Threes as needed.

The doctors also said that I passed out as a bodily reaction to severe
pain.

My take is I am lucky to be alive because if the stump had been fresh I
would have probably been killed or paralyzed from the force of impact.
Also
any hearing recovery will be better than totally deaf in one ear.

In the meantime I can not drive and am still having dizzy spills because
my
equilibrium is off.

--
Todd MacPherson
SoftTouch Forestry
...the land management specialists
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