For Older People with Sense
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I love the Koalas, Lisa.
I am sure my loss of hearing is from working with very loud sanding machines.
lol, I ended up sleeping in my hearing aids last night. I guess with all the other stuff I didn't notice.
Oh today we had my aunt over for Mother's Day brunch which kinda turned into Linner. My DD wanted to cook a complicated tart, but it turned out so good!!!! Then we had a spinach salad. And for dessert a coconut, lime, zucchini bread. Yummy! Then when we took my aunt home she let us look in her basement. We found a very cute old medicine chest, the pulls are metal roses. She let DD have it. So another fixture for the house. no pics of that yet. Then we went for a lovely walk on the beach with the dog. It was such beautiful weather today. A perfect day!
Hope everyone else enjoyed their days!
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I hear tones that others can't hear. I can tell if a motor is running somewhere, but can't hear cars go by on the street. Stuff like that. I can hear the oven click even when my DH swears he turned it off.....I'm right! I have what's called a cookie-bite loss. I hear very deep and very high and poorly in-between.
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I think that,those of, us who do not have,hearing loss may take it somewhat for granted. Your comments remind me to be thankful. Wilsie
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Ditto, Wilsie. I tend to worry more about my eyesight than my hearing.
WW weigh-in this morning. Acccording to my scale, I've done well this past week. Maybe down 1 1/2 lb. I'm still lbs. away from my pre-bc weight and there are clothes in the closet I still can't squeeze into. I enjoy the WW meetings and look forward to them for the social interaction and support.
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I can hear things like ovens and I listen for foods to cook. I think it's from being extremely nearsighted from grade school on. Until I got contact lens in college, I had no idea other people saw individual leaves on trees. I drew a big green smear because that's what I saw.
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now my DH has the most selective hearing.lol
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I am saving this older, with sense for less intense subjects, like flowers and sinks. If I feel I must post a "downer" I will go somewhere else. You are a nice and pleasant group of ladies and I am glad I found you. Look forward to the posts. Wilsie
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Lisa men are stubborn! My DH has the tele turned up so loud and still asks what was said.........I keep telling to get his hearing checked but I keep getting told there is nothing wrong with it........right!
Wilsie feel free to moan or vent or ask serious questions here as well as we have all been there and understand and our experience could maybe help you to. This thread is for friendship and support not just one or the other but both. I'm so happy that you like being here!
Well, DD has just returned so I'll be back later!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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well, hopefully I won't have anything serious, but I am anticipating my CT scan next Monday. You know how that messes with your mind
Wilsie
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Wilsie we call that scanxiety and it is more common that one would think.........I always try not t anticipate bad news until it hits me in the face .......lol.......why worry over something that hasn't happened?
Good luck on Monday for the scan and hopefully it will be all good.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Chrissy, can't you get "close captioning"? I've been using that for years! I do hate when someone can't type, though, as I see such stupid things typed out and I KNOW that's not what they said!!!!
Wilsie, I'm kind of weird in that once I have my scan I totally RELAX! I figure I've done the brave thing and shown up and now someone else can worry about what they saw before they have to share it with me. That has served me well for the past 5 1 /2 years.
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I use close captioning all the time even with my improved by aids hearing. I have just gotten so use to it. It bugs my kids sometimes. I especially have trouble with accents.
Wilsie, feel free to talk about your fears and feelings. We have all had times that we have received support here. We'll be thinking of you on Monday. Please share with us the results so we can be here for you.
barbe, I know about the typists for the cc. My DS always says that they must have been drinking. Esp late at night or on holidays. lol
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Barbe I would love to use 'closed captioning' but my DH is such a pain he really hates it! I like to watch foreign films and they always run the translations at the bottom of the screen but he won't watch them as he can't do two things at once........you know, watch and read.........must be a male thing........lol.
Well I'm finally home.......again.....lol. My Audiologist was very happy with me and the way I have adjusted to the hearing aid......she said she wished all her clients had my attitude.......lol. I'm really pooped tonight and I really have no idea why but I think an early night will be in order.
Take care all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Wren my DD had the exact experience as you when she was in 2nd grade. We were at the back of the store when she exclaimed, "Trees have distinct edges!"
Barbe I hear the trucks at night shifting. It is so quiet here that we run a fan for noise for sleep. My friend who works in Haiti has a difficult time here because it is SO noisy. In Haiti the roosters crow/scream ALL night long.
Chrissy I like closed captioning too, my DD really objects to the bizarre typos. I would think with the poor job market it would be simple to hire someone who can both spell and type! I will need aids at some point, I find I can hear the tv much better, every single word if I have ear phones on. I miss some words with regular volume.
I think I have a house/pet sitter for the 6 days we will be gone in June. An assistant from PT.
I just found out today that my DH will be gone for 6 days over Memorial day to his moms, then for two weeks in June for work. I am really regretting living in the boonies now. I can walk 2 1/2 minutes on the treadmill before the pain gets too much. I need to think up more ways to manage. My old friend I invited for July has already committed to house sit for her kids then. Maybe we will just do it later, I would like to see her.
Love you all! Ginger
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it's a beautiful day here. I spent 2hours of my morning waiting for Faslodex shots (ouch, bad ouch). Then met DD at an outdoor restaurant, and after went to store to return something. After 30 minutes, I was so tired I could hardly walk. That really discourages me, it has not been that long since I could answer the questionair at the doctors "are you able to walk 5 blocks at a brisk pace" with yes Definately a no, now.
I know I'm not the only one who has "scaniexty", that's a really good word. I am glad I have a place to express this, if I told DD or DS they would just worry more.
Some good thoughts-my son and grandchildren from Phoenix will be here the end of the month. They come every summer for a month, and it's so good to have all my family together.
Wilsie
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My dh got glasses when he was 13. He was amazed that the trees had individual leaves. Some goofy eye dr. tried to make his eyes "stronger" by not prescribing corrective glasses.
I wore glasses through much of high school and through college. When I was in graduate school and earning some money as a teaching assistant, I got contact lenses. They were the solid plastic lenses since the gas permeable lenses hadn't been made at that time. I remember tears streaming down my cheeks for weeks as I adjusted to the contacts. It was so "liberating" for me at that age not to have to wear glasses. I felt much more attractive.
I played in a women's golf event at another club today and was teamed up with my friend who won't wear her hearing aids on the golf course. I had to speak VERY loud to her! She's a very nice person.
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I got glasses when I was in second grade. I remember that I told the boy who sat next to me that I was going to get glasses and he said, "I didn't know you need glasses. Here, try on mine". I couldn't see a THING! I spent the next week terrified that my mother would say I had to wear my glasses and I'd never see anything again. When we picked up the glasses I put them on and I was ASTOUNDED that eveything I looked at was clear! I hadn't seen things that clearly in a VERY long time (probably a few years). Needless to say, I didn't need my mother to tell me to wear them!
Leah
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LOL, Leah! What a funny experience though not funny to you at the time.
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Carole, I think your DH and I had the same eye doctor. Or maybe they just thought they wouldn't get bad as fast if they weren't corrected completely. My 3rd & 4th GS have glasses. The older one never needs to be told to wear his. My DD was farsighted.....and would not wear her glasses. In science they asked them to graph something on paper with squares. She could only see the squares if the paper was on the floor.
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I had glasses at 4 . They were trying to help correct a lazy eye. Then after a couple of years, I didn't wear them again for 40 years.
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My glasses were prescribed for me when I was in my first year of high school.........I was sat right in front (I was a mischief so I was told......lol) under the teachers eye but I used to get so many migraines I was missing a lot of school so my mum took me to get my eyes checked and I was long sighted. I wore my glasses for class everyday to avoid the pain of migraine and it wasn't until I was in my forties that I started wearing them all the time. Over the last twenty odd years they have progressively gotten worse to the point they are now trifocals.........take them off and I see blur!
I have the same sight as my Dad, I remember when I was in high school he would knock on my bedroom door and ask if he could borrow my glasses to read in bed as he had left his at his work........that really was a funny sight, seeing a grown man wearing little feminine colored glasses......hahahahaha!
Well girls, I've had the xray of my lumbar region for the anesthetist and now I only have the blood test to do at the end of next week...........I cant believe it is only two and a bit weeks away now.........the time has gone so fast and the nerves are starting to set in as I remember the pain of the last one......UGH!!! Just have to tell myself not to dwell on it and get on......lol.
Have a great day all!
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Chrissy, when the surgery is over, the rehab finished and you're running around the neighborhood, you'll be so glad! The time has flown by since you announced you were scheduling the surgery.
Did you ever wear contact lenses?
If I'm repeating myself, please excuse my poor memory. My mother had knee replacement on one knee about 30 years ago. The experience was painful so she didn't go back for surgery on the other knee. As a result, the unimproved knee has no cartilage at all. It's bone on bone. She can barely walk and relies on an electric wheelchair to get around in her home. When I take her somewhere, we use the manual wheelchair. She regrets not having that 2nd knee replacement because she would be able to walk now.
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Lisa how fortunate that your lazy eye was diagnosed. My SIL is blind in one eye because hers was missed in the 70's.
My DD has dry macular degeneration, she is 35 and while they are not seeing any progress it scares me a lot.
Ginger
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Carole no I never really got into wearing contacts........by the time I was looking toward doing just that I was told I needed bifocals and it was impossible to wear contacts. I did try.....being me...lol.....but it was so difficult having different sight in each eye so I gave up and just stick with the glasses. I still wouldn't be able to wear them as I have trifocals now........getting blinder by the minute......lol. The only thing I'm really grateful for is the new feather weight lenses as mine would be thick and heavy if they weren't around.
Ginger that is way young for macular degeneration! Has she had any treatment for it? My mum had her cataracts done only to find out twelve months later that she had macular degeneration.......girl! she was soooo ticked off about it you would have thought she was in her twenties instead of eighties! It really made no difference to her as she was close to the end of her days anyway but I chuckle about her reaction and little tantrums over it.
I am aware that macular degeneration can strike anyone at any time so it's something that should always be checked when having your eyes tested. Most optometrists do just that here as part of the eye test so that's a good thing!
Love n hugs all! Chrissy
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Hi, popping in. I was posting with another member. I thought sharing the below information may be helpful to you
.The link www.needymed.org is to a web site started by a Social Worker and a doc. It is a tricky site to use. The first page leads to a several hundred resource pages. But I think this first page, does not project the wealth that lies beneath. Be patient when following the links within the site. There are sections that are disease and drug specific. The specific page then links to lists of organizations that provide monetary or other types of assistance.
Register first and do the request for assistances form. Reason: the request for assistance form is filed. If you apply to 1 or 20 organizations/companies, the forms don't need to be repeatedly filled out. The system is designed to pull information from the original form. There may be a few particulars that need to be added to a companies/organizations form.
All the pharmaceutical companies have patient assistance programs. All the drug manufactures are listed there
The other way to reach drug manufactures is 1. call the manufactuer patient assistance number(goolge keywords: drug name and manufacturer, then to webpage>>>patient assistance. Very time consuming.
There is so much more on www.needymed.org. It took a bit of time to wander through the whole site. I've shared a telephone walk through with many friends and relatives. I even called healthcare facilities to tell them about this link.
For completeness, there are many ways to get financial assistance for whatever you need. There are organizations that will do things for you i.e volunteers that buy groceries, drive, install handrails, build wheelchair ramps.
How to find the info besides from the link above? FIND the SOCIAL WORKER(SW). It's there job to know these things
Talk to all of the following 1. cancer center SW, 2.hospital SW, 3. Insurance companies SW, 4. County SW. 5. church outreach leader.I requested from my insurance carrier, a consult with a SW. That one appointment with the insurance carrier Social Worker, led to grants totaling $10,550. The meeting with the cancer centers SW, led to coverage of neulasta for $4000.00.
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Thanks Sas! As usual, some very useful and helpful information.
Love n hugs. Chrissy
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Hahahahaha! Good one Nancy!!! Love it!!
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for Barbe
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