Texas Roadhouse CEO died by suicide amid 'unbearable' post-COVID symptoms, family says

[Diamond_Dog]

The family of Texas Roadhouse CEO Kent Taylor says he died by suicide while experiencing “unbearable” symptoms related to COVID-19.

Texas Roadhouse announced the death of Taylor, who founded the Kentucky-based restaurant chain in 1993, on Thursday.

In a joint statement provided to McClatchy News, Texas Roadhouse and Taylor’s family said he killed himself after experiencing ongoing symptoms, including “severe tinnitus,” after he was infected with COVID-19.

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Taylor will be remembered for giving away his entire compensation package to support frontline employees, the company said.

“This selfless act was no surprise to anyone who knew Kent and his strong belief in servant leadership,” Greg Moore, lead director, said in the company’s statement. “He was without a doubt, a people-first leader. His entrepreneurial spirit will live on in the company he built, the projects he supported and the lives he touched.”

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https://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/national/article250071849.html

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Tinnitus is a relentless demon from hell in your ear

[Diamond_Dog]

2. I know - I have it day and night.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Me too .. it's a fkg living nightmare.

[Sophiegirl]

5. Me, as well

Only in my left ear. I’ve lived with the for as long as I remember. Most of the time I have learned to ignore it, but there are days when it is just unbearable.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. I have it in both and have since I was young

[Diamond_Dog]

9. Mine is in both ears

I am told it likely was expedited from when I had chemotherapy years ago.

[sdfernando]

13. I have tinnitus in both ears.

Its been so long that I can't even remember when it started. Thing is that I doesn't much bother me. It doesn't interfere with my regular hearing (even now that I wear hearing-aids), doesn't keep me from sleeping at all (pretty much nothing keeps me from sleeping!). I must have gotten used to it a long time ago....but I can see where if you've never had it and, depending on how it affects your hearing and functioning, it could be devastating.

[brewens]

4. One guy I know said if he would have had a checkout button in the hospital during the worst

of it, he probably would have used it. He was in for COVID during the middle of summer. I was glad he was telling the story. He's a well known businessman and used to own and manage a local grocery store. Actually named Mr. Whipple. Here in Idaho, not everyone would be willing to admit having that hard a time with COVID.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. The only way to beat it is to pipe in white noise into your ears through headphones

When it's bad for me, I rely on recordings of rain and crickets.

[Fullduplexxx]

8. That's the only way I can get to sleep

[peggysue2]

10. I've had tinnitus for the last 7 years

It started with a dramatic hearing loss after swimming which added to a loss I'd had decades before from mastoiditis. Painful!

In the beginning the buzzing/roaring/high-pitched squeals were maddening. Over time, the noise level has flattened and I've learned to push the noise into the background. However where ever I go, what ever I'm doing, I'm encased in white noise.

That being said, I've read that some people cannot sleep (I'm a periodic insomniac but it's rarely the tinnitus), cannot concentrate or focus and are literally driven nuts from the persistent, high-level noise.

I have it in both ears but it's worse in my nearly deaf right ear. Also worse during allergy season.

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. RIP

[maxsolomon]

12. My DIL wound up in a mental ward because of Tinnitus last fall.

She won't get her ruptured eardrum fixed because she's "scared of surgeries".

Everyone is scared of surgery.