Tonight I fear I have discovered the cause and the cure for two minor health issues that have plagued me for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Problem #1 is in my left ear. It’s like a perpetual ear infection without the pain: the sort of sound distortion you get when your ears don’t “pop” as you drive up a mountain. It especially bothers me with hearing my own voice. I have stopped singing in church because of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
(A minor inconvenience since I don’t care to sing along with most of the contemporary praise songs anyway.)<\/p>\n\n\n
The other problem is my voice itself. I catch myself clearing my throat quite a bit and – lately – feeling like my vocal cords are tightening up when I speak. My words come out strangled. Like my hearing issue, some days it’s worse than others.<\/p>\n\n\n
On our evening walk two days ago, Melissa commented on how much I clear my throat lately. We had never talked about it before. She suggested I might need to “see somebody”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
With that conversation, something clicked inside my head. Melissa has certainly learned in recent years how much certain foods can affect her health. How a person can develop allergies or “sensitivities” over time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
My morning coffee was lately making my throat worse rather than better… ever since I had started buying my own creamer instead of using Melissa’s almond milk.<\/p>\n\n\n
What if the culprit is milk?<\/p>\n\n\n
I have never had a dairy allergy before but …<\/p>\n\n\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A) I am now 54, and things do fall apart.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 B) Allergies, I know, can develop suddenly.<\/p>\n\n\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 C) Allergies, I also know, can start mild and progress to unbearable.<\/p>\n\n\n
So I decided to cut out dairy entirely as an experiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
And I am sad to report that after just 48 hours my hearing has improved.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I am hoping it’s my imagination…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tonight I fear I have discovered the cause and the cure for two minor health issues that have plagued me for years.\u00a0 Problem #1 is in my left ear. It’s like a perpetual ear infection without the pain: the sort of sound distortion you get when your ears don’t “pop” as you drive up a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}