ENT Patient Stories
ENT patients span the gamut of life—from newborns to seniors. ENT specialists are trained to treat and manage life’s fundamental functions and disorders: your sinus headache, your child’s hearing loss, your spouse’s sleep apnea, or your mother’s hyperthyroidism. Read these stories from real-life patients who have learned how to Be ENT Smart!
Sinus Surgery Corrected Her Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Liz Haberkorn talks about her struggle with chronic rhinosinusitis.
“Toward the end of 2018, I started having trouble breathing, I had no sense of smell, exercising made me cough, and I would lose my breath after walking for a couple of minutes. I was always tired,” explained Liz Haberkorn, the Academy’s Senior Editorial Manager for the AAO-HNSF journals. And, like most of us at one time or another, she’s an ENT patient.
Vertigo Patient Learns How to Manage Dizziness
Rob Chavez talks about his experience with dizziness and vertigo.
“I was working from home during the pandemic, and I noticed one morning when I woke up, even before getting out of bed, I started experiencing dizziness,” said Rob Chavez, an ENT patient in Alexandria, VA. “I got out of bed, and it hit me right away; the room started spinning. I had to hold onto things to get to the bathroom.”
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