Posted on 06/01/2018 8:50:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
That’s a great pic. Love the guy doing gunnery calcs.
But whaddya gonna do? There are worse things.
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Exactly. Mine us just always there. I have gotten used to it. Most of the time, I can ignore it, but when something reminds me, it comes to the forefront.
Ping.
“I would love something...but a long time ago I just resigned myself to living the rest of my life with it. I think I have three separate tone, and boy, does it get loud.
But whaddya gonna do? There are worse things.”
I’m with you, I’ve resigned myself to the fact it won’t get any better. Just worse.
I only experience one tone but the volume goes from irritating to deafening.
I grew up with deaf grandparents so I know a good life can be lived without hearing.
In my late teens I had to go several months with patches over both eyes due to surgery. I adapted within two weeks.
The sense of touch is the one sense I would fear losing.
I can’t imagine not FEELING anything.
I could probably afford it if I had to, and if I have to, will go that path.
I’m not there yet, though I was driving my wife somewhere the other day, and the ringing was so loud (in the car) that I abruptly, out of the blue, exclaimed aloud “Jesus Christ, I can’t believe how loud my ears are ringing!” My wife looked in alarm at me, and I said “Sorry. Not any worse, I just don’t usually notice it in a car while driving down the highway!)
I served four years in the USN during “peacetime”, and I can’t bring myself to use those VA resources because my inner voice says they should be used for war vets and retirees who had more skin and time in the game than me...but that is just me talking to myself. I absolutely pass no judgement at all on others who do. I just feel uneasy about it.
My best friend who joined up with me keeps trying to get me to sign up, but...I just don’t feel right about it. I feel like I am taking resources away from those who deserve them more than I do. I know...not rational, but...there it is.
https://www.audionotch.com/
sound therapy that worked for me, plus Widex hearing aids with maskers that enable me to live a normal life.
Heavy aspirin use caused my tinnitus...but I had to take it for several months
I am at that stage that I don’t enjoy noisy crowds, parties with music, or concerts any more. When there is a lot going on, not only does it actually hurt my ears, but I simply cannot distinguish individual sounds or voices, and end up gritting my teeth, nearly grimacing as I stare at the mouth and face of people talking to me as I try to decipher what they are saying so I don’t appear rude.
LOL, I went to a retirement party recently, and this elderly Indian gentleman who I have worked with for 30 years sat next to me...I have always liked him, but he is very quiet, so beyond a smile and greeting that is almost as far as it ever goes.
The problem is, he has a very thick Indian accent, and when he gets excited about something, in a quiet hallway he is incomprehensible! I was standing with a group of people in a hallway with him recently, and he was speaking excitedly about something, and I thought “Crap! I cannot understand a word he is saying!”
When I looked up at everyone else, they all had a somewhat panicked look on their face, and I realized not one of them could understand a word he was saying! I nearly burst out laughing!
Anyway, I sat next to him at this party with probably five hundred people, all talking, music playing, and my ears were literally rattling, and he was having a very earnest one way conversation with me while I was inclined over towards him at about a 30 degree angle, my ear deliberately cocked towards his mouth, my face grimacing. Anyone looking at me would have thought I was in considerable pain!
Ah, this getting older crap! It has its ups and downs! I am glad there are parts of it I can find humor in it, like when I misinterpret something I hear and repeat to my wife who rolls her eyes at me!
Done!.....................
But whaddya gonna do? There are worse things.
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Exactly. Mine us just always there. I have gotten used to it. Most of the time, I can ignore it, but when something reminds me, it comes to the forefront.
He’s not doing the calculations. He is on the field phone to the fire direction center in a bunker nearby where the charts and slide rules are being furiously manipulated to reduce the info coming in on the radio from the forward observer into firing data for the gun (azimuth, shell, fuse, time, deflection, elevation). He relays the data to the gunner in the white t-shirt, and the command to fire to the assistant gunner on the right who yanks the lanyard to fire the piece. The rest of the crew is standing by behind the trails, cutting charges, fusing up the next round and preparing to reload.
Same here. As soon as you think about it, or for some reason notice it, that's when it becomes annoying.
I've taken relatively good care of my ears over the years—not much unprotected gunfire, heavy machinery, electric saws, or Who concerts. I've been to maybe 50 or 100 concerts, but I can only recall one or two which resulted in a "temporary threshold shift" or whatever they call it.
But the tinnitus seems like it's almost always there. I can remember running around the house one day trying to find out which piece of machinery—one of several window unit air conditioners, the pool pump, etc.—was making this high-pitched noise, and then suddenly realizing that it was the damn tinnitus in my ears!
Thank you, sweetheart!
“I have had it so long, 40+ years, I just ignore it anyways...................”
I don’t know how long I’ve had it but it’s multiple decades. Due to gunfire I believe. People commit suicide over it. I have TV on all night to provide a distracting noise. It’s just one of many of life’s nasty bitches.
Cost: $5,339.48
Between that and hemorrhoids I’m livin’ the dream!...................
I would pay twice that, and more for a cure!...................
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