[cdavis]

This is a long time back, but a buddy of mine did not stop to equalize on a scuba dive to 70 feet and blew his eardrum. Before it blew, one of the three bones in the middle ear got pushed into his inner ear and the other two disarticulated and fell down in the bottom of the middle ear. He had a operation to fix it and got some hearing back, but not nearly all of it. Yours doesn't sound nearly as bad and the docs are a good bit more skillful today.

Good luck

Connor