The size of your SSDI benefit checks depends on your prior income. Basically, the more you paid into the system, the more you will be able to draw out of it once you are declared disabled and awarded benefits. The average monthly benefit paid out for all disability recipients in November 2010 was $1,067.
Mastoiditis may occur as a complication of acute or chronic otitis media. Acute otitis media (AOM), an acute illness marked by the presence of middle ear fluid and inflammation of the mucosa that lines the middle ear space, is discussed separately. (See Acute otitis media in adults (suppurative and serous).)
Chronic otitis media is a recurrent infection of the middle ear and/or mastoid air cell tract in the presence of a tympanic membrane perforation. Symptoms commonly associated with chronic ear disease include hearing loss, otorrhea, aural fullness, otalgia, and occasionally true vertigo. Cholesteatoma, a keratinized mass in the middle ear or mastoid, may occur either as a primary lesion or secondary to tympanic membrane perforation.