Tinnitus

“Hello I am Dr Millar I will listen in your ear, I shall move my chair close to yours so the two of us of very near”
Said the Consultant in the hospital yesterday
As I had turned up for my appointment over an hour away

So he uses an instrument poking it in my ear saying,
“Sorry but as I expected, there’s nothing I can hear”
“That’s rather a pity, it means there is no cure”
“Now if I could have heard your sound, I could have helped it for sure”

“Can’t you hear that racket, surely you can hear this din ?
It’s not possible it’s just me from somewhere within”
I pleaded with the Doctor to have another go
It sounded like a wasp’s nest from down below

Alas just for my peace of mind
Dr Millar listened again
As he held his listening tool behind my ear, tho he tried in vain
“I am sorry to say only you can hear a sound”
It isn’t anything up above you nor from the ground”

“You have tinnitus you see & whilst it is a pain, I can recommend an app on your phone to make it wax & wain”
“Ahh okay Dr Millar” I said
Thinking Oh my God so this noise is in my head

Well at least I know, there is nothing they can do
I’ll do some online research
Maybe have some therapy too
So I’ve bought a little speaker & I plug it in my phone
I play a brown noise app
It’s masking the tinny tone

I reckon it doesn’t matter what happens to anyone
Whatever changes might  transact
One will find a sollution if one tries hard enough
You just have to adapt & that’s a fact