Comments on: New MRI and other odds & ends http://oneana.com/2006/11/15/new-mri-and-other-odds-ends/ Infomation on Brainstem Gliomas and Updates, Donations about Ana Thu, 17 May 2012 02:41:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: P. Senarighi http://oneana.com/2006/11/15/new-mri-and-other-odds-ends/#comment-22 P. Senarighi Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:50:07 +0000 http://oneana.com/2006/11/15/new-mri-and-other-odds-ends/#comment-22 This came from a site reader who emailed me and I felt it important to post here to add this little tidbit as they looked into the topic of her hearing loss because of chemo. "Hair in your ear doesn’t “help” you hear, it’s the only way you hear. It’s the vibrations of the air over the hairs inside your ear that send the signals to the brain to compute the hair movement into “noise”. I never even thought about the fact that you would probably lose that hair as well. I learned something new from Compguy’s blog!" This came from a site reader who emailed me and I felt it important to post here to add this little tidbit as they looked into the topic of her hearing loss because of chemo.

“Hair in your ear doesn’t “help” you hear, it’s the only way you hear. It’s the vibrations of the air over the hairs inside your ear that send the signals to the brain to compute the hair movement into “noise”.

I never even thought about the fact that you would probably lose that hair as well. I learned something new from Compguy’s blog!”

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