For Older People with Sense

My DD and I are so excited about the new sink and this is the vanity we found for the bathroom. We'll probably have to use a vessel sink. The rough plumbing went in yesterday.

I now get to wear a soft cervical collar now at night. Trying to get my neck ache to go away. lol I'll be quite the sight, mouth guard, compression gloves, wrist splints while trying to sleep. I'm so use to all the other stuff I'll probably get use to it too.

It was the background  noise that bothered me with mine as well, so that's one of the reasons I stopped wearing mine. Also, I HATED when a battery died!!! All of a sudden the world tipped sideways......very nauseating! I loved at night when I took them out and was back to my muffled little world. Funnily enough, now I wear ear plugs at night to drown out my DH's snoring!! 

My hearing aids were very expensive 10+ years ago, over $3,500!! They had a little remote to use for "plane", "movie/church" "phone" and "normal conversation" and a volume control. Was fun at first and then I got sick of hearing so much crap. Maybe I'll get back to them if they've gotten better.

I cannot possibly see how you can lose a hearing aid!! Mine went right into my ears (they had made a mold first)...but I guess if one was a wild golfer with their swing and wore ones that hooked over the ear.....but then you'd find it quite easily at the tee....heck, I don't know!!!!!!

I have the opposite problem. ..I hear too well. All my life I've had to wear ear plugs.  Everything is too loud and I can hear conversations that I probably shouldn't. But music is the most bothersome. I buy plugs by the dozens. 

I wear ear plugs at night, too.  I've probably lost some hearing but still hear fairly well.  I stopped for a free hearing test at Sam's Club some months ago and my hearing was still in the normal range.

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.

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.

now my DH has the most selective hearing.lol

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

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

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.

LOL, Leah!  What a funny experience though not funny to you at the time.

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.

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.