ABSTRACT
An uncommon medical event happened to me twelve years ago, which both left me with a medical problem, and presented an unusual opportunity. It is hard to pin down, although I use the term “medical” to cover the possibilities. Was it auditory, psychological, physiological, neurological, mental, a sensory aberration, or a noise or sound or tune impinging from the outside somewhere? I could say it left me with an illness, but after more than a decade of experience with it, I hesitate to call it that. I have learned to live with and know it, and I regard my life since that occurrence as living in a ringside seat at a physiological process ordinarily covered and obscured in normal life.
