Eardrum Perforation

A stabbing pain. A bang, a pressure, a sudden tearing — and then a strange feeling, as though something inside you had opened that should not have opened. Perhaps fluid ran from your ear. Perhaps your hearing on one side went dull, as if someone had drawn a veil over the world. Perhaps there was a whistle, a hum, a pull. And then came the diagnosis: eardrum perforation. A tear in the most delicate membrane in your body — in the skin that translates sound into movement and connects you with the world.