The ear treatments have worked. The infection is gone, and believe it or not, I can hear just fine now. No one was very hopeful when I started my medication that my hearing would return. But we are all glad that it did. When someone comes home, I can hear the door open when I'm on the other side of the house. The world is much more interesting with sounds. I look for crows when I hear them, and I know when a squirrel is hopping through the leaves.