Noam Hassenfeld

But Kelly told me she's been trying to slowly phase out her maskers and her hearing aids.

And she's trying to learn how to listen to the world again.

She still hears that tinnitus sound all the time.

But as hard as it is, she's trying to stop blocking everything out.

She's just trying to hear all the other sounds along with it.

This episode was reported and produced by me, Noam Hassenfeld.

I also did the music.

It was edited by Joanna Salataroff with help from Jorge Just.

Mixing and sound design from Christian Ayala with a ringing endorsement from Sally Helm.

Meredith Hodnot runs the show.

Julia Longoria is our editorial director.

Unexplainable is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Aha, yeah, okay.

So there are two ways to pronounce it.

Most people say tinnitus, but all the researchers I spoke to say tinnitus.

When I reported this episode, I said tinnitus.

That's the one I chose.

We can go whatever way you want.

It's your show.

She said that she got tinnitus something like four years ago when she was about 25.