You’d think, being six pills into twenty-one, that I’d feel some lessening effect on the ear, but it seems to be the same. Worse, even.

I mean, that’s almost thirty percent of the way home, so there should be a corresponding thirty percent reduction in hearing loss? Instead, it feels like it’s gone the other way. It feels like my ear drum is swollen.

Hopefully that means those white blood cells are convening and doing their job.

Hearing aids are cool and all, but I’m a little to young for that yet, I would hope.

Target: 1400 words
Written: 2003 words, novel: Father Lightning