Hydrochlorothiazide and tinnitus

I'm still writing. Despite what people think, it has been five months, not a year since my last story was posted. Bard's Tale 4 was 18 Lit pages, or a full 180 page novella, and came out in August 2018.
I am nearing the end of finishing Chapter 18, and I'm working hard. Still having days when I can't even read words on a page. After more than three years, there is finally a diagnosis, and the issue now is can they find the cause to determine if some of the side effects are reversible -- dizziness, tinnitus, shooting body pains, migraines, vision problems, and worse, sometimes cognitive issues.
My reader has read the first part, and it eagerly awaiting the rest of the story. Time to get back to writing. Slainté

5*
Short. Sweet.
It's the cosmic microwave background (CMB or CMBR) in a marriage. This speaks of fading energy, no matter how powerful the original source once was.
The answer should always be, Of course, you are good enough for me and I'll never let you down and I'll always have your back. The substance behind the answer is the effort (energy) and attention each brings to the partnership. That is always the hope and it should be mutual.
The beginning of the original story highlights what happens when one party (here, the wife) forgets that. (I, personally, am not so sure what the end of the original story means.)
Once the CMB is noticeable, it is like tinnitus and never goes away. It can drive one crazy.

Within the QT universe four of the seven QT series have had the serum heal old and new scars.
In the original written by CorruptingPower's, Andy Rook loses the tinnitus in his ears and his body guard Lexi finds her scars have healed. I think 2 other characters I believe had quick healing as well in Piper and Sheridan after she scratched herself up.
In BirchesLovesBooks series QT-Flyover County, Captain Diana Sasaki finds her scars are healed up after her initial imprinting
In OtterlyMindblowing's series QT-Remote Work, Shannon's breasts regenerate after she had them surgically removed after a car accident and her burnt skin regenerates
In AgathonWrites's series QT-The Upstart's Knight, Alex McNamara is left regenerating after she locks herself in her bathroom and scratches herself up destroying her bathroom in the process after she has a bad reaction to the first man she was supposed to be paired with.
I see Tiberius regenerating losing new and old scars on his body after having sex with Beatrice, Captain Grace Lawry, and Zoe &/or Juno.

With this being set in the SF Bay Area, given how you described Nate Watkins, I would have thought he would have protected some of the local pro-athletes, sports legends and musicians from the area to have some people who are more normal than the average billionaire, as well as to give him some entertainment, like Joe Montana, Steve Young, Ronnie Lott, Dwight Clark, Roger Craig, Jerry Rice, Charles Haley, Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, Will Clark, Jeff Kent, Barry Bonds, Matt Williams, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla, Bll Gibson, Sean Hopper, Chris Hayes, Mario Cipollina, Stef Burns, John Pierce, Carlos Santana, Steve Perry, Neal Schon, Randy Jackson, Greg Rollie, Dean Castronovo, Ross Valory, Grace Slick, and Mickey Thomas.
Also with the vaccine having some healing power, I would think Huey Lewis' tinnitus would be healed to the point where he could return to performing on the harmonica and singing, while Steve Perry's vocal chords would have some healing allowing him to return to where he was in the late 1970's to mid-1980's when he was with Journey.

Within the QT universe four of the seven QT series have had the serum heal old and new scars.
In the original written by CorruptingPower's, Andy Rook loses the tinnitus in his ears and his body guard Lexi finds her scars have healed. I think 2 other characters I believe had quick healing as well in Piper and Sheridan after she scratched herself up.
In BirchesLovesBooks series QT-Flyover County, Captain Diana Sasaki finds her scars are healed up after her initial imprinting
In OtterlyMindblowing's series QT-Remote Work, Shannon's breasts regenerate after she had them surgically removed after a car accident and her burnt skin regenerates
In AgathonWrites's series QT-The Upstart's Knight, Alex McNamara is left regenerating after she locks herself in her bathroom and scratches herself up destroying her bathroom in the process after she has a bad reaction to the first man she was supposed to be paired with.
In your series, I can see Harri regenerating and losing the scars on his body with the wounds fully healing after all of his women have sex with him. The women would panic and call Miriam and she would get back to them and find out that a complete healing of wounds is something they are finding is a side effect to the serum.

....his ground on the defining principles he/they lived by. Wifey somehow magically came to believe those principles could be done away by a whim. Cudos to him for sticking to his guns. Shame on her for not. Besides, any discussion about a lifestyle change MUST happen before any action is taken. I personally, can't comprehend why ANY married person thinks they can arbitrarily act on their own thinking in any regard that might affect both. That would be disloyal.
Now, thank you for your story. Please put more effort into the editing phase of any future submissions. While I liked the story, the editing was quite rough.
Also, I felt the run up to the big night was a little overdone. I think the audience got it from about their lunchtime, where the misunderstanding originated. Belaboring the point across another 9 paragraphs does little more than annoy and delay.
But again, the story was interesting in its portrayal of a marriage explosion delayed by a misunderstanding, owed to tinnitus brought on by machine noise.
Truly, a working man's dilemma.
Thank you.

It would be great to have a celebrity cameo of some Bay Area celebrity show up in this story, for example:
-rock guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana,
-Grace Slick (co lead singer of Jefferson Airplane [Somebody to Love (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdLasOrG6c) &White Rabbit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0)], Jefferson Starship [Jane (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8kIhkU0LJ8) & Find Your Way Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj4gqJzlIvc)], & Starship [ Nothing is Gonna Stop Us Now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxyN3z9PL4) &the much maligned We Built This City (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ)]),
-Mickey Thomas (lead or co lead singer of the Elvin Bishop Group (Fooled Around and Fell in Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtX1-i6Zu8), Jefferson Starship [Jane (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8kIhkU0LJ8) & Find Your Way Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj4gqJzlIvc)] & Starship [Sara (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ScTb6_KHg), Nothing is Gonna Stop Us Now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxyN3z9PL4) &the much maligned We Built This City (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ)}),
-Gregg Rolie (original keyboardist & singer for both Santana & Journey [You can here his voice on Santana's Evil Ways(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L05FmrLI__E), Black Magic Woman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2O81STmDGg), Oye Como Va (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFheD8IO4D8) & Leave Me Alone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ3W4hajA1E), as well as on Journey's Feeling That Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg5vziU-qIs), Just the Same Way (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twC6FvDubLk), and On a Saturday Night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEtSiHJa0ZU) where he dueted with Steve Perry]),
-rock guitar virtuoso Neal Schon (who played with both Santana and Journey),
-Ross Valory (original bassist & background singer with Journey),
-Huey Lewis (lead singer & harmonica player with Huey Lewis & the News and a leading advocate for finding a cure for tinnitus which he suffers from),
-Sean Hopper(original keyboardist & background singer for Huey Lewis & the News),
-Johnny Colla (original rhythm guitarist, saxophone player & background singer for Huey Lewis & the News),
-Bill Gibson (original drummer & background singer for Huey Lewis & the News),
-Mario Cipollina (original & former bassist for Huey Lewis & the News now doing other music projects),
-49er legend Joe Montana,
-49er legend Dwight Clark,
-Giants legend Barry Bonds,
-Giants legend Will Clark,
-Warrior point guard Stephen Curry,
-Warrior shooting guard Klay Thompson,
-etc...
I imagine some of the musicians survived and found each other and decided to throw a concert in New Eden where all of them live...