![]() ![]() ![]() During that time, I also booked an acoustic tour with two fellow songwriters who happened to be dating. I took dexamethasone every day, as prescribed, steadily ramping up to a full dose. ![]() To borrow a phrase I heard somewhere recently, I felt better than I did 20 years ago. Not even the anxiety of my upcoming operation could dampen my buzz. I made elaborate plans for the months following my surgery - including another tour with my band, Andrew Leahey & the Homestead - despite my doctor’s warning that I wouldn’t be well enough to hit the road until the following summer. I could feel my heartbeat in my eyeballs. But it also made me high as a kite, like I’d just mainlined a potent mixture of espresso beans and psychotropics. Dex restored nearly half of the hearing I’d already lost. Medically speaking, it was a miracle drug. And just like Trump, it made me feel invincible. Hoping to restore some of that hearing before I underwent brain surgery, my doctors prescribed me a daily dose of dexamethasone - the same steroid that is now being administered to President Trump as part of his kitchen-sink treatment of Covid-19. ![]() I’m a full-time songwriter, and my specific type of tumor - an “acoustic neuroma,” which sits on one’s hearing nerve, causing terrible damage to the surrounding real estate - had already wiped out much of my hearing. I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2013, immediately following a summer tour with my band. ![]()
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