Hey there, one morning when she was in eighth grade,

Caitlin May did what she always did when she woke up.

Music has always been a big part of my life.

And so I immediately put in my headphones

and started putting on music as I was about to get out of bed and get ready and I noticed

my earbed and my right ear wasn't working.

It was obvious because on this Beatles tune she'd queued up, Eleanor Rigby, the vocals are almost all on the right-hand side and she couldn't hear him.

It's like that's kind of weird.

So I switched the earbuds and it worked fine.

Wearing the face that she keeps in a... so I switched the earbuds and it worked fine.

Wearing the face that she keeps in a jaw by the door.

But then it was, the other one wasn't working in my right year.

And I was like, what?

Yeah, confusing.

And then she tried getting out of bed.

I was so dizzy.

It was my first time experiencing vertigo,

and it was so severe.

I couldn't walk across the room without getting severely

motion sick. With that vertigo Caitlin could barely walk at all because she had no

sense of balance that actually relies on a mechanism inside our ears.

Later, doctors found she had lost 87% of her hearing on the right side.

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