You Have a Tumor in Your Ear!
5 min readDec 16, 2023
I have an acoustic neuroma. There! I said it out loud. Now, it is real. I began a journey a year ago that I didn’t know I was on. For a travel writer, that’s a scary thing.
What The Hell Is That?!
An acoustic neuroma, also known as vestibular schwannoma, is a noncancerous tumor in the ear canal. Mine resides on the sheath of the Balance Nerve, next to the brain stem in my right ear. It…
