article_snippet: Waking up one morning, Leesa Barrell was alarmed to find that everything seemed very different.
article_snippet: It felt like somebody had put a brick wall up against my right side,’ Leesa Barrell says.
article_snippet: I called out to my husband Lee and when my husband Lee replied I could only hear my husband Lee voice in her right ear.
article_snippet: I could have been deaf in that ear my whole life.
article_snippet: It’s the worst part of the whole experience, like a constant waterfall in her right ear.
article_snippet: I was in complete panic when I woke up one day in 2010 and everything was awfully quiet.
article_snippet: ’s lips move, but I couldn’t hear any words coming out.
article_snippet: I knew that my hearing had completely gone.
article_snippet: After it was turned on I could hear people’s voices again