Ahhhhh! The smell and the sound......

[Grandpa Shooter]

Up reading the news this morning.  Got my hearing aids in, used my sinus spray and put a pot of coffee on to perc.  I can hear it and smell it this morning.  A glorious day indeed!

[Brad Johnson]

Just wait.  After the coffee smell goes away and all you're left with is essence of GS... well... 

Brad

[Monkeyleg]

I don't need a hearing aid yet, but it's remarkable to me how many things I must attach to or ingest in my body before I can start my day. It wasn't like this years ago.

[Grandpa Shooter]

Just wait.  After the coffee smell goes away and all you're left with is essence of GS... well... 

Brad

Nope!  Took a shower this morning.   So far I am only on a couple of full time meds. The others are at my discretion.  The VA gets a little pissed because I won't accept RX's for all the crap they want me to take, but so far I am still in control of my functions, Thank you very much.

[Gewehr98]

Aww, he's ok, Brad.

I figure when the three dawgs try to roll around on him, then he'll realize the French approach to hygiene ain't workin'.   

[Standing Wolf]

I don't need a hearing aid yet, but it's remarkable to me how many things I must attach to or ingest in my body before I can start my day. Wink It wasn't like this years ago.

I do need hearing aids, but the last time I tried them, they didn't help. I've reached the point in the past year at which I can't smoke the first cigarette of the day until I've been awake an hour or so. Not a good sign.

On the whole, getting older amounts to improvements, but there are one or two aspects I'm less than enthusiastic about. One of them is the inability to focus my eyes for extended reading.

[Brad Johnson]

Aww, he's ok, Brad.

I figure when the three dawgs try to roll around on him, then he'll realize the French approach to hygiene ain't workin'.   

Yeah, well... when he starts talking about shaving his legs, I'm outta here.

Brad

[Doggy Daddy]

when he starts talking about shaving his legs, I'm outta here

Yeah.  The combined smell of Barbasol, coffee, and old man will do that to you.   

DD

[coppertales]

I don't put my hearing aids in unless there is someone around worth listening to.  The wife gets my attention with "that look".  Thank goodness for closed caption on the TV.....chris3

[bluestarlizzard]

hmmmmm... i wonder if i can convince dad to get hearing aids.

or just getting myself a supplie of ear plugs.

"OH MAN, I JUST TALKED TO LOU AND HE..." "DAD, I'M NOT THE ONE THAT CAN'T HEAR. STOP YELLING!"

 

[sanglant]

hmmmmm... i wonder if i can convince dad to get hearing aids.

or just getting myself a supplie of ear plugs.

"OH MAN, I JUST TALKED TO LOU AND HE..." "DAD, I'M NOT THE ONE THAT CAN'T HEAR. STOP YELLING!"

 

get the ear plugs, the hearing aids don't help a bit, 8 grand and they leave 'em in the box

[Grandpa Shooter]

get the ear plugs, the hearing aids don't help a bit, 8 grand and they leave 'em in the box

We have gone way off topic here, but for what it is worth, not all types of deafness require amplification.  It is common for folks supplying, or selling hearing aids to make the mistake of thinking if they make things louder, that solves the problem.  WRONG!  I can hear a clock ticking two rooms away.  It is clear and distinct.  What I can't hear is sound tracks for movies where they mask the dialogue with sound effects, people talking against background noise (as in a restaurant) or someone talking to me supposedly, but not facing me.

I have hearing loss which would require an advanced type of hearing aid the VA does not want to supply.  I am tired of fighting with them and I guess I will let it slide.  My wife doesn't agree with that, but she is not the one they are pissing off.  Well I guess in a way she is.

[sanglant]

ah, different issue. your willing to say i can't hear good, and seek to hear better. someone that's being convinced is a nutter ball 'o wax.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

for what its worth the banished paddy mcriley is a font of hearing info and shares it..  i've got his email somewhere

[coppertales]

Yep, one pair, paid for by my health ins, 8 grand.  The second pair, given to me by the VA, 6 grand.  The VA hearing aids actually seem to help a bit in certain venues.....Plus a drawer full of previous models.  Hearing aids don't help jet engine damage....chris3

[Brad Johnson]

Hearing aids don't help jet engine damage....chris3

Well there's your problem!  Trying to repair jet engines with hearing aid parts.  Pfft.  You'd think people would know better... 


We're going through this with Dad right now.  He has cannon cocker's ear, bad, but will only admit to "just having a little trouble making out the words".  The man is deaf as a stump.  When I pull up to their house I know what he's watching on TV before I ever open the door.

Brad

[Gewehr98]

Roger on the jet ears.

The VA confirmed what I already knew before retiring:  There's a huge notch in my hearing response that coincides nicely with the frequency of Pratt & Whitney TF-33 compressor stages, thanks to either 4 or 8 of 'em running at a time for hours on end.  The tinnitus doesn't help things much, either. It finally dawned on my wife the other day that I was in fact reading lips during conversations.  She thought I really was ignoring her earlier...

[Grandpa Shooter]

After my full work up in 2006, they gave me fitted hearing aids which were just amplifiers.  There are just some sounds which don't need amplification , and I finally went back and had them set them to a lower gain.  They still did not and do not help my inability to hear against background noise.

We watched Rob Roy last night and as usual, we had to set up the subtitles so I could follow the dialogue.  I'll be darned if I know why they turn up the music or background noise if they are going to have them whispering to each other.  If they were facing the screen I could pick up a lot of it by lipreading, but they have them hunkered down or being all lovey dovey and I can't make out a darned thing.

A buddy of mine has aids he got at Costco, but they cost $2800, just a tad more than I can really afford.  He is considered 60% in each ear, due to repeated concussions, Yeah you guessed it, in the Army. His employer demanded he get aids or get fired.  He finally got them and I tried one.  We were out in a restaurant and I didn't really need to hear the argument across the restaurant.  Especially one of that nature

[Gewehr98]

Subtitles are a gift from above, IMHO.   

[geronimotwo]

Nope!  Took a shower this morning.   So far I am only on a couple of full time meds. The others are at my discretion.  The VA gets a little pissed because I won't accept RX's for all the crap they want me to take, but so far I am still in control of my functions, Thank you very much.

as an emt,  i'm amazed at the long list of meds that 50% of the patients have.  sometimes 20 or more different medications. i always wonder, if it weren't for the meds, how good or bad they would feel. 

[Grandpa Shooter]

as an emt,  i'm amazed at the long list of meds that 50% of the patients have.  sometimes 20 or more different medications. i always wonder, if it weren't for the meds, how good or bad they would feel. 

This is taking yet another turn.  Could be a long standing thread I guess.

My meds are for such things as arthritis, sinusitis, chronic bronchitis, sleep disorder (PTSD), elevated cholesterol, peripheral neuropathy, etc.  I went for many a year with no meds at all.  I survived by sheer will power, or WON'T power.  I stil won't take pain meds even though I feel the pain more than I used to.  Apparently the mind gets just a tad less tolerant as one ages.

[HankB]

. . . What I can't hear is sound tracks for movies where they mask the dialogue with sound effects . . .

You're not the only one with that problem, and it's not limited to people with measurable hearing loss. In fact, some DVD players can be set up specifically to boost the volume of the center channel, which carries most of the dialog; enough people had the same problem that the player manufacturer included a solution in the hardware!

Also, a lot of the stuff that's being broadcast now seems to have the multiplexing scrambled so that if you're using an ordinary "stereo" television, the dialog is masked by sound effect or that %$#@! background music. For about 1 movie or TV program in 5, I have to route the sound through my Dolby 5.1 receiver . . . I don't have surround speakers (issues with room layout and wire routing) but with front and center channels I can use the "3-channel" setting and get intelligible dialog.

Most of the time.

[Tallpine]

I'll be darned if I know why they turn up the music or background noise if they are going to have them whispering to each other.

The directors are just idiots    



Drugs....
I knew of an old lady who was on a great number of different RXs.  Many of them were to alleviate the side effects of another medicine.  She finally got so bad that the MDs said she was dying and stopped all her meds.

Miraculously, she completely recovered in a couple days!

The damned MDs were killing her 

[bluestarlizzard]

The directors are just idiots    



Drugs....
I knew of an old lady who was on a great number of different RXs.  Many of them were to alleviate the side effects of another medicine.  She finally got so bad that the MDs said she was dying and stopped all her meds.

Miraculously, she completely recovered in a couple days!

The damned MDs were killing her 

katie had a lot of issues when she first got diagnoised with lupus with meds. she was taking one medication for the lupus and like three more to conteract the side effects from the 1st med. and none of them actually were doing anything. one lupus med did help her joints but the side effects and meds she was takeing to control the side effects was killing her kidneys and making her sick as a dog.

when she went off them and drastically changed her diet, she's now doing fine. 

[sanglant]

i did the refusing pain meds for 10 years, well 10 years is a hard time to have a headache. well. i gotta tell you, oxycontin is nice. don't suffer just so you can keep your pride, it just ain't worth that much.