Sensory Overload
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Pam Gilbert, after her surgery. (Courtesy of the Gilbert family)
Pam Gilbert could hear things that other people couldn’t. That superpower quickly turned into a nightmare when she began to hear noises inside her own body — her heartbeat was as load as a booming bass drum, and her eyeballs moving sounded like a high pitched screeching.
We follow her through her first symptoms, her darkest moments, and finally, to her diagnosis.
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