“My job is to go out and sing, and entertain these residents in the senior living facilities, and I need to be able to hear the frequencies, and I lost those during my infection with Covid.”
A battle with Covid-19 left singer Irena Schulz with pain in her ears and hearing loss, jeopardizing her job performing for elderly and dementia patients if she could no longer hear the music.
“I have been suffering from severe depression because I can’t hear, and then I had this ringing in my ears, that is just, it’s deafening. I didn’t really want to wake up in the morning, I just, I was that depressed,” Schulz told CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen in an interview.
Schulz’s serious Covid-19 infection last summer has left her with more than lingering symptoms of her infection.
The recovery isn’t just physical — it’s financial.
“I can’t go see a doctor. I can’t afford it.”
A Covid-19 infection left Irena Schulz, a retired Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s researcher in South Carolina, with nearly $10,000 of credit card debt from medical bills.
“It’s very scary when I can’t go to the doctors, when I can’t afford it,” Schulz told CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen in an interview.
The medical bills she faces from a hospital stay, trips to specialists for hearing loss and new hearing aids have depleted the Schulz family’s emergency funds and strained the family’s finances.
With the pandemic…
