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Are they covered?
If they are, or most of it is, that probably isn't so bad Brenda. The ones my grandma had to wear when I was a kid were very obvious, but the last 10 years of her life you couldn't even tell that she wore them. They've come very far with that technology in the last 30 years.
If you need them now, you've probably been on your way to needing them for quite a while too. I'll bet once you get used to them you're going to wonder how you lived without them.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Are they covered?
If they are, or most of it is, that probably isn't so bad Brenda. The ones my grandma had to wear when I was a kid were very obvious, but the last 10 years of her life you couldn't even tell that she wore them. They've come very far with that technology in the last 30 years.
If you need them now, you've probably been on your way to needing them for quite a while too. I'll bet once you get used to them you're going to wonder how you lived without them.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That's the good thing Jack. They are completely covered and the batteries too.
They will be very different from the ones my mom wore and that was about 10years ago now.
The last time I had my hearing tested was almost 2years ago and they said then that my left ear was bad. This time I had to guess at some of the spoken test words for the left. The hearing in it is down to 75%, the right is still 100%. Having both aids will save the hearing in my right one and shore up the hearing in my left.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Are they covered?
If they are, or most of it is, that probably isn't so bad Brenda. The ones my grandma had to wear when I was a kid were very obvious, but the last 10 years of her life you couldn't even tell that she wore them. They've come very far with that technology in the last 30 years.
If you need them now, you've probably been on your way to needing them for quite a while too. I'll bet once you get used to them you're going to wonder how you lived without them.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That's the good thing Jack. They are completely covered and the batteries too.
They will be very different from the ones my mom wore and that was about 10years ago now.
The last time I had my hearing tested was almost 2years ago and they said then that my left ear was bad. This time I had to guess at some of the spoken test words for the left. The hearing in it is down to 75%, the right is still 100%. Having both aids will save the hearing in my right one and shore up the hearing in my left.
Wow! 100%. That's amazing.
I don't know how "self aware" you've become about things, but in the last year I have become more in tune with my body than I probably ever was back in the days that I took it for granted, and certainly during the time I was destroying it. What I've noticed is that it's amazing what you just learn to deal with as your new normal. I guess it makes sense... Afterall, when you're a kid and nothing is wrong with you, you tend to think that being old one day would just be agony for so many reasons. It's really not, but I think that has a lot to do with how your mind (thankfully) plays tricks on you and allows you to cope with the changes.
I'm going to bet that you've become quite accustomed to the hearing loss up to this point, and it's only after you get your new aids and it's so much better that you realize just how bad it has actually gotten.
I may have mentioned before that my Step Sister works with her husband who is an oral surgeon. She makes the molds for dentures. My step-dad called me last week and said he talked to her the other day and she said that "I'm family" and they're going to do right by me. I haven't called her yet, but with the price my step-dad said this would cost I'm guessing that they'd do it for me at pretty much cost.
Since I don't have any insurance and the problem has gotten so bad that there really is no way of even staving it off at this point, even though I'm not drinking and I'm eating healthy and taking vitamins, I think it might be time to say goodbye to my teeth and just get full dentures. The teeth still look good and I still have a great smile, but besides vanity there's really no reason to hold on to them anymore. I'm pretty sure at this point that every day I keep them in my mouth I'm shortening my lifespan by two days.
On the plus side... It will be nice to be able to eat steak and corn on the cob again. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Are they covered?
If they are, or most of it is, that probably isn't so bad Brenda. The ones my grandma had to wear when I was a kid were very obvious, but the last 10 years of her life you couldn't even tell that she wore them. They've come very far with that technology in the last 30 years.
If you need them now, you've probably been on your way to needing them for quite a while too. I'll bet once you get used to them you're going to wonder how you lived without them.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That's the good thing Jack. They are completely covered and the batteries too.
They will be very different from the ones my mom wore and that was about 10years ago now.
The last time I had my hearing tested was almost 2years ago and they said then that my left ear was bad. This time I had to guess at some of the spoken test words for the left. The hearing in it is down to 75%, the right is still 100%. Having both aids will save the hearing in my right one and shore up the hearing in my left.
Wow! 100%. That's amazing.
I don't know how "self aware" you've become about things, but in the last year I have become more in tune with my body than I probably ever was back in the days that I took it for granted, and certainly during the time I was destroying it. What I've noticed is that it's amazing what you just learn to deal with as your new normal. I guess it makes sense... Afterall, when you're a kid and nothing is wrong with you, you tend to think that being old one day would just be agony for so many reasons. It's really not, but I think that has a lot to do with how your mind (thankfully) plays tricks on you and allows you to cope with the changes.
I'm going to bet that you've become quite accustomed to the hearing loss up to this point, and it's only after you get your new aids and it's so much better that you realize just how bad it has actually gotten.
I may have mentioned before that my Step Sister works with her husband who is an oral surgeon. She makes the molds for dentures. My step-dad called me last week and said he talked to her the other day and she said that "I'm family" and they're going to do right by me. I haven't called her yet, but with the price my step-dad said this would cost I'm guessing that they'd do it for me at pretty much cost.
Since I don't have any insurance and the problem has gotten so bad that there really is no way of even staving it off at this point, even though I'm not drinking and I'm eating healthy and taking vitamins, I think it might be time to say goodbye to my teeth and just get full dentures. The teeth still look good and I still have a great smile, but besides vanity there's really no reason to hold on to them anymore. I'm pretty sure at this point that every day I keep them in my mouth I'm shortening my lifespan by two days.
On the plus side... It will be nice to be able to eat steak and corn on the cob again. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Audiologist showed me my test results after she did them.
I'm pretty self-aware. Became that way after the brain tumor. I have noticed in the last few months a dip in my hearing in my left ear and have had to ask people to repeat themselves as I am not catching words or not hearing them properly.
I'll adjust better than my mom did. She wouldn't use them and I tried to explain to her why she kept picking up all the background noise that she was and the Audiologist started to explain it to me and was surprised that I knew it.
My parents were older than all my friends so I knew what growing old looked like from an young age.
Not sure if you did tell me that your step-sister works with her husband who is a dental surgeon. But if they can help yo
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Yeah.... I actually pulled one of my molars out with a pair of alcohol cleaned vice grips back in late November. "Pulled" might be overstating it since by that time the gums had receeded so much and there was no bone it was attached to that it literally came out with a small pop and I immediately felt like a million bucks when it was out. I think by that time my body was treating it as an infection itself.
Shortly thereafter the first one to go wobbly on me quite a few years back (I'm sure I mentioned the story here somewhere) finally just fell out on me when I was eating a pizza one day. Damn thing came out without any pain as if I was losing a baby tooth.
These are two of the 7 I was told a few years back there was no saving. I've lost 80% of the jaw bone that holds the teeth in and I was told the only reason I really have any teeth left is because of my gums and cartilidge. Maybe I've lost more in the last few years... I dunno. A few more have become wobbly and I'm unable to tear into any food or eat anything that's likely to get stuck in between my teeth (steak, chicken, popcorn, etc.) The funny thing is that there is almost no pain at all now that the two extremely bad ones are out. I don't know how much that has to do with my own tolerance for pain and living with my new normal.
Aside from the fact that the gums are receding now, it's hardly noticeable to anybody else, but it's only a matter of time, and because of the damage done already it's only going to get worse the longer I don't do anything about it. Since I'm not going to shell out what would end up costing more than my house cost me to get implants, dentures are really my only option. I'm not looking forward to having my teeth knocked out since I never had any cavities and the remaining teeth themselves still look very nice, but I think at this point they're doing great harm to my body, particularly my heart.
I'm grateful that I know somebody. I'm not in any position to afford this if I had to pay the going rate. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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True you do have to think of your future health.
It's good that you know people who can help you out.
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Nice dry day here today.
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Right now had a nasty surprise found an additive in the brand of soy milk that I buy that I usually only find in cow's milk and in some apple turnovers that I like. 
So now I have to look for a new brand to buy.
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I've cut nearly all gluten and soy out of my diet. I'm going to try eating like this for a while and see what happens.
It's essentially the Keto diet with some alterations. I'm not doing it to lose weight since I've already gotten as low as I wanted, but I'm trying to lower my blood pressure and I also want to lower natural inflammation that causes arthritis and other pain that occurs with a high carb diet. (The one I had when my primary intake was beer and pastas).
It's amazing that with my other health issues that I didn't get type 2 diabetes along with it.
I don't do the fasting part everyday. It's a lot easier to do it on days that I work than it is when I'm not working. I usually make it at least 5 hours after waking up without eating. On days that I work, I usually go about 10 to 12 hours after waking up without eating. There's rarely a day that I don't at least go half of the day without any caloric intake when you include sleeping.
Like I say, I'm not trying to lose weight, so when I do eat, I eat a ton. I'm also eating more protein than the standard Keto diet because I'm heavily active at work and I'm just now beginning to work out on my off days in between as well. (excess protein gets turned into sugar, so if you're not using it by being active then it defeats the point of the diet).
I've gotten down to about 150-155 lbs, but I'm hoping by the end of summer to be a strong and lean 165lbs, which wouldn't be too bad considering I'm only 5'7".
Back in the worst of my drinking days, I could barely fit in 36" jeans and I had to notch 2 extra holes in my belt. I'm now fitting comfortably in 32" jeans and put the belt at the 5th hole in (including the 2 extra ones I notched).
One almost instant benefit I've noticed after a few weeks of this is that my intestinal issues seemed to have disappeared. You don't notice your own farts at home when you live alone and when you work in a huge store over nights, but when I went down with my old man to visit my brother in his small apartment he said I smelled like death, and I quickly became very aware and self conscious of the issue.
Another thing I've been noticing is that I don't need as much sleep and I have more energy. I don't know if I can attribute that much if at all to the new diet yet though since I've been making so many other lifestyle changes gradually over the last year and a half since I stopped drinking. I also started taking "old man" multi-vitimans right around the time I changed up my diet as well, so there's that too.
It's an easy diet to stick to since I'm not reducing calories. It's a little boring, sure, but even when I ate crap it was a pretty boring and repetitive selection of easy to make crap. If the lack of variety starts to bother me there are plenty of recipes out there to broaden my horizons.
I've heard a lot of good things about this diet from people that I respect. I'll let you know a month or two down the road how I'm feeling and if my blood pressure goes down.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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With my low blood sugar Jack. I have to watch my carbs and sugar intake. I have discovered that I have to have gluten in my diet or I can feel sick.
So even with that discovery I still have to watch my carbs and sugar intake for my low blood sugar.
It's annoying but I've been doing it for so long that most of the time I don't notice it.
Since there is no soy milk I can use or alternate milks, I am back to cow's milk as long as it is organic which means no additives.
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