[nagdu] 12 hours from gdb visit.

[Stepper]

Hi to all listers.
Stepper here.
I can't stand it another minute.
What I want to share with you is that on Saturday 2-19-11 at 9 A.M.  I am to have a home visit, and yes, Juno walk."
I and to do this with a lady named, Sheila Spencer.
She is field manager and wheelchair guide instructor from the Oregon campus.
My only real concern is that we are to get a snow storm in here over night with up to six inches of snow by morning!
My hope is, there were almost wrong for the last two days.
We only have an inch yesterday morning, non this morning.
However, you can see from our front porch the lights at night on our ski mountain.
I started this process for the third time trying for a dog over the last eight years.
I even had the local O and M instructor out yesterday and she worked with me on the closest large intersection to my place.
I have been thrown with crossing with my lining up.
What I didn't know was when the city widened the street to five lanes from two lanes, they changed the corners from what I know as what, right angled corners? To forty-five degree angled corners. So I guess there like rounded off so cars can make like a sweeping turns on turning right, instead of hard right turns.
What I am after is home training.
Also I got over the last year, the mystery of my hearing figured out as well.
I came home last year from gdb California so toasted I never touched a dog.
I got home, and spent five days in bed.
Wa La, the miracle that came my way is my pain pump miracle med, called Prealt. Its one thousand times more powerful then Morphine.
On October 8th, 2010 I reapplied with gdb to try for home training.
Well, here were are just what eleven hours from our home visit.
I keep this all from my family, friends, and wife until telling just my wife two weeks ago today.
I was asked to tell my story of recovery at a Saturday night birthday meeting of about 120 people were there I was told.
At the very end with my wife sitting in the front row, I told her I had a surprise to tell her.
So I told her in front of everyone, that in two weeks we were going to have a home visit and I was to do another Juno walk to see if I could get home training.
She started crying, I started crying, she came up front, and we hugged, laughed, cried, and the place went nuts.
We still haven't told any of our family, or friends yet.
I just do not want to if I don't make it want to go through that with everyone again.
I also got my hearing fixed.
Please listen to this. This is really important.
Over my life time I had three pairs of hearing aids. They never worked right for me, I was always screwing with them. Turning them, down, sideways, pulling them out, putting them back in.
They were never really right no matter how many times I went back to the hearing places. But I thought it was me not doing something right.
The last time was getting ready for the last Juno walk I had over  a year and a half ago.
I couldn't hear to cross this intersection I was at yesterday.
I tried, and I tried, but I couldn't sort it out, with five lanes, and two left turn lanes.
The last place I went to get the best hearing test in town was the Elks Hearing Center. It has a huge rep.
So after my hearing test, the Dr. of hearing aids tells me I need a pair of aids that cost $7,500, no shhhh!
Before I left, now she's down to $5,000.
I said I had to think about it, and left.
Next I went to another hearing center with a great rep as well.
Same story second verse. They tell me it will be $6,500 for a pair of aids.
Now comes the good part.
I don't know why, but I said to myself the short form of the serenity prayer, and said I am, before I go in to hawk for new hearing aids again since its been about ten years since I bought my last pair at $4.500, am going to a Ear specialist doctor.
So I did.
Here it comes, don't go away yet!
My doctor told me I had what is called.
"Narrowing and curvature of the ear canal."
The doctor said that he believes that at least five percent or more people have this.
What this means for those of us that have this is this.
When we try to clean out our ears, the "Q tips" can clean out the first half but the second half or so narrows down, and bends so much you can't get a "Q tip" to go all the way down.
Plus when we try, we are pushing wax further in and packing the wax titer. Plus, even when we try and use ear wax licquid remover, the wax is compacted, and harded and old, that it takes the ear Doctor with there special magnafications, and tools, and special licquids to get this stuff to come out.
It takes a ear doctor that has the skills and the tools to clear this out, and most people that have this needs there ears cleaned out every couple of months.
Doctor said that hearing aid centers should be able to spot the problem, but they can not clean it out.
The centers should tell us, and recommend to see a Ear doctor.
After all this, after getting my ears cleaned out, which the first time took him more then an hour using tools, liquids, and so on.
Now I see him every two months, and what a difference.
I now can tell traffic including left turn lanes, and so on with no problems.
No $7,500 hearing aids, and I mean no aids at all.
Please if your hearing aids just never seemed right to you please see a hearing doctor for yourself.
Or if you just feel things are not right, check it out you may be surprised.
I just watched the weather, and its saying snow, rain, wind, so who knows?
I am just hoping I can get this behind me before I go nuts.
Thanks for listening, and I will write in the morning and let you know if I got to get this done or not.
Stepper