Hahahaha...then you got into a Howitzer Battery!
Frikking ears! Right now both of mine are singing away at me in unison, each with three different tones! I admit, I am just glad to have anything left there to hear with.
I ended up medically retired as a maintenance mechanic at age 36. I was working at a 200 bed 5 story nursing home which had a boiler and chiller. I was also the electrician. Plus a 50 acre retirement home complex. I would not have made it 20 years in the Navy especially as a MM.
But The Lord had another path for me to take. Blessed with two loving wives the first one passed at age 24 of a massive heart attack after I had left for work one morning.. My second wife we made it 30 years she went home in 2015. When she went quad the doctors gave her 5 yrs to live tops. It's believed she had a mild case of undetected at the time Polio as a young child and it came back on her at 35. She became a C5/C6 level quadriplegic while we were dating. So the timing of my retirement was a blessing because it allowed me to be home full time with her.
BTW them ears can mean a check. I got 40% VA Disability based on hearing loss that got me 30% and Tinnitus aka ringing and other assorted unending noises got me 10%. I filed on that about 3 years ago after my son in law stayed on me about it. It made a big difference in income I needed. Neurologist told me something else would likely take me before Parkinsons. Probably the ticker with a Right Bundle Branch Block.
The good part if you can call it that to my hearing loss is my seizures are less frequent.
OH BTW I almost got booted out on medical on my 77-78 MED. The medivaced me from Naples with intention of processing me out on a medical as my Inner Ear was pitching a fit. The ENT Doc at ROTA gave me nasal spray and orders back to meet the ship in Naples. The Inner Ear and the portion of the brain which processes it is damaged. That triggers the seizures. I had to figure it out myself. Dern Docs about killed me with antidepressants. I've been on Xanax 4x a day since 1993 but at .5mg a small dose and keep it consistent in my blood stream.
Gahhhh! The inner ear thing. I am lucky, I only get it occasionally, maybe once a year, and I can get it to resolve I perform the Epley Maneuver (where you lay down a specific way, then roll around) so mine isn’t the same as yours.
I do it for a week or so, then I am good. I knew someone who had vertigo that was different from mine, and boy, I sure did feel sympathy for him. He couldn’t do anything.
Anyway, it sounds like that meandering in life that I take in conversation has been something you take as it comes, and if you get lemons, you make it into lemonade...