The deterioration continues...
Rachel has been telling me for years that I need to go get my hearing tested. At first I thought she was crazy. I blamed her and said she mumbled. But then I started noticing I wasn't able to hear people at work that well either. Those who know my immediate family, know I come from a long line of "loud talkers". So when I speak to them in person or on the phone I hear them fine. But when I speak to people with a little less "gusto", I find myself saying "WHAT!?" more and more. Rachel is always telling me to turn the tv down, and lately I've found myself watching movies with the subtitles on because I was tired of straining to hear dialogue. I also found that whenever I talk on the phone (which is rare), I tend to always put the phone to my left ear.
So I finally went for a hearing test. I went to my regular doctor who did a preliminary test and agreed that I needed further tests. Yesterday I went to an audiologist and she confirmed what Rachel has been saying. She told me I needed a hearing aid. She said I was a candidate for a hearing aid in both ears, but my right ear is much worse than my left. I was only able to hear about 40% of the tones in right ear vs 70% in my left. So I think I'll try getting a hearing aid for my right ear (please dont stare next time you see me), and see how much of a difference that makes. Plus the newer hearing aids are not cheap (about $2-3,000) and Im not sure how much of that gets covered by insurance.
I did some research last night and read a few of the pamplets, and the new hearing aids are pretty cool. If they do all they are supposed to, I'll be quite happy. Supposidly, they have wind blockers, so if you're outside walking or biking and the wind is rushing past your head, the noise of the wind is supressed so you can hear other things around you. They are supposed to help create a smaller arc of sound as well. So if you are talking to a person across the table at a restaurant, their voice should be louder and more clear than the background noise from everyone else in the restaurant.
So this is stage one of my plan to replace all my existing body parts with newer, more technilogically advanced parts...
Oh and on a completely different note, Im thinking of doing a colon cleansing. Not one of the ones where they shoot water up your ass. One of the ones where you take a series of pills over several days to cleans your body of toxins. The local morning show on the radio has been trying it, and their experiences have me intrigued. Supposidly you can lose like 10 pounds, and you feel great afterwards. Im just a little nervous about trying it because of what could happen at work. I don't want to be in the middle of a meeting and suddenly have to bolt out of the room. One of the guys on the morening show also reported that he woke his wife from a dead sleep because of some gas "leakage". If anyone has any experience with this, or has tried it, let me know.
Oh and congrats to JoePa and the Nittany Lions. Holy crap that was a good game last night. Actually all three BCS games have been really good. Hopefully tonights Texas vs USC game is just as good. Im pulling for the Longhorns. I just hope the game doesn't end at 1:00 AM like last nights game did. Man am I tired today.
So I finally went for a hearing test. I went to my regular doctor who did a preliminary test and agreed that I needed further tests. Yesterday I went to an audiologist and she confirmed what Rachel has been saying. She told me I needed a hearing aid. She said I was a candidate for a hearing aid in both ears, but my right ear is much worse than my left. I was only able to hear about 40% of the tones in right ear vs 70% in my left. So I think I'll try getting a hearing aid for my right ear (please dont stare next time you see me), and see how much of a difference that makes. Plus the newer hearing aids are not cheap (about $2-3,000) and Im not sure how much of that gets covered by insurance.
I did some research last night and read a few of the pamplets, and the new hearing aids are pretty cool. If they do all they are supposed to, I'll be quite happy. Supposidly, they have wind blockers, so if you're outside walking or biking and the wind is rushing past your head, the noise of the wind is supressed so you can hear other things around you. They are supposed to help create a smaller arc of sound as well. So if you are talking to a person across the table at a restaurant, their voice should be louder and more clear than the background noise from everyone else in the restaurant.
So this is stage one of my plan to replace all my existing body parts with newer, more technilogically advanced parts...
Oh and on a completely different note, Im thinking of doing a colon cleansing. Not one of the ones where they shoot water up your ass. One of the ones where you take a series of pills over several days to cleans your body of toxins. The local morning show on the radio has been trying it, and their experiences have me intrigued. Supposidly you can lose like 10 pounds, and you feel great afterwards. Im just a little nervous about trying it because of what could happen at work. I don't want to be in the middle of a meeting and suddenly have to bolt out of the room. One of the guys on the morening show also reported that he woke his wife from a dead sleep because of some gas "leakage". If anyone has any experience with this, or has tried it, let me know.
Oh and congrats to JoePa and the Nittany Lions. Holy crap that was a good game last night. Actually all three BCS games have been really good. Hopefully tonights Texas vs USC game is just as good. Im pulling for the Longhorns. I just hope the game doesn't end at 1:00 AM like last nights game did. Man am I tired today.
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Oh my gosh!!!! I am so sorry. In the shock of reading this post did you get hearing aids or just for the right ear? Can they stop it from getting worse? I did like your joke about replacing body parts though. Do they know why it happened? Dr. Ani blames the headphones that go in the ear not the big bulky kind that Sony makes. They're good. Good for Rachel for keeping on top of you. Hope your cold is gone. I have never heard of those pills. Are they the same kind that one takes when they are constipated? Cause depending on the brand and person they take a few hours to take effect but when they do BAM!!!
I haven't gotten any hearing aids yet. The tests I went for yesterday were to make sure I didnt have any benign tumors that could be messing with my auditory nerve. Thankfully that wasnt the case. Next I have to go to an ENT (ears, nose and throat) doctor to see if they can determine the cause of the hearing loss. The audiologist told me this is typical in older people or people in construction or the military who have prolonged exposure to loud noises.
Yeah I think the colon cleansing pills are along the same lines as the ones that you take when constipated, but a little more high octane. According to the morning show they took 4 fiber pills and 2 laxitives in one sitting as the beginning of the process. In that stage, the toxins are supposed to cling to the fiber, and then the laxtives help you get rid of them.
Wow! Good luck with the tests! The fancy new ones seem really good.
Will you be getting Anal Bleaching as well?
I read an article about Pete Townshend from the Who, who is now blaming headphones on his hearing loss. I can totally imagine what you were going through when they were checking for tunors. When I found out that I had the GIRD, they did a test to make sure it wasn't a rare cancer of the throat that many people mistake for it.
-it's not a heart attach - heww
- it is probably eflux - heww
- it could be cancer - WHAT THE FUCK!!
Good luck buddy!
Thank God.
Ill probably need some anal bleaching after the cleansing :-).
Thanks for the well wishes, guys.
I think we all know .. the hair is the firts to go :(
You got that right. Man getting older sucks.
Well I found out my insurance will cover $1000 per ear towards the hearing aid(s). Not bad.
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