They speak of these medicines as warriors attacking the factory of the germ, the ribosome. Macrolides and tetracyclines block its work; aminoglycosides, like the one they gave me, cause misreading. But their charts do not tell you that some victories leave a permanent silence. My right ear holds only a hollow hum now, a side effect called ototoxicity, from the gentamicin that saved my life. It is an ajeeb compromise, where the cure writes its cost directly onto your *dil* through a stolen sense.
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