[BunnySlippers]

Hearing AIDS?

I think someone said it was nerve damage ... the same that I have. NOTHING can fix nerve damage even though I (and I'm sure Rush) would pay for hearing. Hearing aids do not work with nerve damage as there is not a functioning nerve to carry ANY sound ... it's just dead.

[aruanan]

No, Glenn is trying to make a funny with AIDS and the reference to auto-immune disorder. Of course, AIDS isn't an auto-immune disorder.

[WRhine]

I think someone said it was nerve damage ... the same that I have. NOTHING can fix nerve damage even though I (and I'm sure Rush) would pay for hearing. Hearing aids do not work with nerve damage as there is not a functioning nerve to carry ANY sound ... it's just dead.

As a guitarist that likes loud music I can testify to the effects of nerve damage to the ears. Sometimes I get a ringing sensation in one of my ears that impairs my ability to hear for a few minutes. Oddly this often happens when there is very little sound. I have been a lot more careful in recent years about noise levels but I can see how this condition can take on a life of its own.

[woofie]

I too have nerve deafness and a wife who yells at me for not wearing my $5000. hearing aids ...I do better without them(well I think so)

[Mikeswife]

My mom has an autoimmune disorder which affects her eyes. She could loose her sight in days/weeks/years depending on the degree of the flare up of the disease. Very very insidious and scary.

[cricket]

"Hearing aids do not work with nerve damage as there is not a functioning nerve to carry ANY sound ... it's just dead."

His left ear is precisely that. . .right ear on 'life support'; so to speak. . .