[nagdu] Fw: 12 hours from gdb visit.

[Stepper]

This is Saturday morning at 8.30 A.M. and yes! yes! yes! there is no snow, 
no rain, no wind, at this time.
I think were going to get her done.
I will write back as soon as Spencer leaves after our interview this 
morning.
Here goes, what a deal!
Stepper
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] 12 hours from gdb visit.


> 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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