[nagdu] 12 hours from gdb visit.

[Tracy Carcione]

Best of luck, Stepper!  Hope the bad weather holds off just a little while
longer for you.
And thanks for the hearing tip.
Tracy

> 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
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