I wish I could but fate has stepped in causing irreversible damage. I’m going to be 80yo next year but back in 1962 I was working in a heating boiler plant. I was doing some work in one end of a the combustion pipe, 25 foot long and 48” in diameter. Another worker was going to use a sledge hammer and metal stamping numbers on the other end. It was as loud as a large church bell and you’re standing inside it. He didn’t see me and I didn’t see him. He hit the metal stamp and for a millisecond there was noise and then nothing. I screamed in agony, cupped my hand over my ear, felt something warm and sticky coming out of my ear. It was blood, he had ruptured my eardrum and ever since, I have tinnitus in both ear and distorted hearing in my right ear.

The left ear is just as bad, if not worse because 44 years later in 2006 fate stepped in again. I took my then 8yo grandson to the Mouse House in Florida. I won’t bore you with all the details except to say I picked up a drug resistant Super Bug and got very sick. My ENT doctor was mystified by my symptoms and tried every drug the medical profession had, nothing killed it (sound familiar) He even contacted the CDC, yeah, that CDC who said they had one “Drug of last resort!” It kills 99.99% of every bug inside the human body. I took it for 30 days and all I can say is the side effects were worse than the bug symptoms. The bugs were smart, they traveled to the most remote spot in the body to evade the medicine, the back of the inner ear. They died all right, from starvation and blocked my ear so that a muffled sound is all I hear in my left ear. I imagine there is a delicate procedure that could be done to resort hearing in both ears but as my health is so fragile, I don’t have much time left on this planet to care anymore.

I’m glad you were able to help your hearing loss. It must sound peaceful to walk thru a forest of animals and birds on a nature walk. Take care.
@becky1024