Saturday August 31st.

Woke today still feeling the same. Very noisy in my head and still no hearing.
It is now 6 days of facing being deaf and there is a lot to get used to. I have a fairly constant wobbly feeling and tension in my neck. Also, very wiped out. Perhaps it is related to shock?
My appetite has gone and it is a struggle to eat although I feel hungry.

Thinking of all the possible causes, here is a summary..

A lifetime of playing music with only one ear functioning. Sitting in front of flutes, triangles, horns, brass, which hurts my ears.

Fall on the ice when skating several years ago. It resulted in concussion and severe vertigo for many months and I was fairly convinced there was damage to the vertebrae in my neck. When I looked upwards the vertigo was worse.

Being chronically overtired, overstressed and drained for the last few years. Sometime something has to happen to force me to stop. This has done that.

The week before my birthday, I drove over a thousand miles, had a dry eye which kept running, and was very tense trying to organise my party on Sunday. Also, I was waking up with sore eyes, struggling to get out of bed just to keep going. I lay down for a short while on Sunday and felt quite dizzy, when I moved my head.

I decided that I should keep a food diary adjacent to this.

9.30 Muesli.
10.30 coffee and chocolate cake. Could not finish the cake. First coffee for a week and did not enjoy it.
Omlette.