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Re: You know you’re getting old when…
Looking for your phone....while talking on your phone.
Looking for your reading glasses....while they are sitting on your head.
Trying to get out of the car...while still seatbelted in.
Doing the ol' Mirror Mirror on the wall routine...and it cracks.
Putting your socks on while standing up becomes a circus.
Contempt for everyone or anything younger than you.
Having to chew your food 300 times instead of being able to swallow that pork chop whole.
Dropping something on the floor, and wondering if you really need it that bad.
When your grandkids requests signal they believe you move bricks for El Chapo.
You immediately survey the building you walk into to see if they have an elevator instead of just steps.
Farting, and not caring who smelt it.
When your wife starts leaving brochures around the house to nursing homes.
When your wife leaves you notes, saying dinner is ready, gas is on, just light a match.
When your family says, "C'mon, we're going for a ride".
When your kids redecorate your house for you, but it looks like the kill room from Dexter.
Looking for your reading glasses....while they are sitting on your head.
Trying to get out of the car...while still seatbelted in.
Doing the ol' Mirror Mirror on the wall routine...and it cracks.
Putting your socks on while standing up becomes a circus.
Contempt for everyone or anything younger than you.
Having to chew your food 300 times instead of being able to swallow that pork chop whole.
Dropping something on the floor, and wondering if you really need it that bad.
When your grandkids requests signal they believe you move bricks for El Chapo.
You immediately survey the building you walk into to see if they have an elevator instead of just steps.
Farting, and not caring who smelt it.
When your wife starts leaving brochures around the house to nursing homes.
When your wife leaves you notes, saying dinner is ready, gas is on, just light a match.
When your family says, "C'mon, we're going for a ride".
When your kids redecorate your house for you, but it looks like the kill room from Dexter.
tonyb
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Re: You know you’re getting old when…
There are four vultures playing cards outside your bedroom window.
SeleniumFalcon
10 ·
Re: Bad Christmas for Me
@stangman67 I am really sorry to read this. My wife had something eerily similar. Ear pain, went to doc, got prescription. About three days later, much worse, lost complete hearing in one ear. Went to ENT. Got a different prescription, and they also gave her 30% chance of full recovery. No kidding. All very similar. They said it would take 6-12 months to fully recover (meaning, to get as much recovery as she could).
I don't recall her having any balance issues. She's on her feet all day at work, so I think I would have remembered if that was a complaint. However, she did have occasional shooting, debilitating pains.
They took pressure measurements (I think because of the pain, but maybe normal part of the ENT's examination of her condition), and the nurse said it was insanely high. So, they intentionally ruptured her eardrum. Had to drain fluid. Didn't help the hearing to come back but helped with pain. In the incision they put in what she said they described as a "cork" that would naturally pop out as the eardrum healed, and they would recover it in a later visit.
No hearing for about a month, and it slowly started to come back. Not like an aha-hallelujah moment, so I think maybe it started to come back while she was asleep one night, so by the time she woke up, her brain didn't hit her with an, OMG, I can hear! situation. Anyhow, it was slow, very slow. And the cork took like a month longer than they said.
That was 8 months ago, and today she says she's about 70% of the way there. She was literally at zero. When she first got to the ENT, since her PCP had already looked and said it was a common ear infection, their tone was an initial shrug. Then they did a hearing test and showed her the good ear first, and then the second ear. Absolutely deaf. So their tone changed to very serious. She freaked out. Broke down in tears. Fast forward from April to today (happy new year!), 70% is very positive. Hopefully, over the next 4 months she'll get the rest of it back.
I hope the same for you. Sorry to share such a long story, but I've been away from Club Polk for a while, and when I read about your situation, considering she went from "you may never hear out of this ear ever again" to the majority of hearing in that ear returning, I thought it might be a good story of hope.
None of us want any of the rest of us to go through what you are. I'm pulling for you, my friend.
I don't recall her having any balance issues. She's on her feet all day at work, so I think I would have remembered if that was a complaint. However, she did have occasional shooting, debilitating pains.
They took pressure measurements (I think because of the pain, but maybe normal part of the ENT's examination of her condition), and the nurse said it was insanely high. So, they intentionally ruptured her eardrum. Had to drain fluid. Didn't help the hearing to come back but helped with pain. In the incision they put in what she said they described as a "cork" that would naturally pop out as the eardrum healed, and they would recover it in a later visit.
No hearing for about a month, and it slowly started to come back. Not like an aha-hallelujah moment, so I think maybe it started to come back while she was asleep one night, so by the time she woke up, her brain didn't hit her with an, OMG, I can hear! situation. Anyhow, it was slow, very slow. And the cork took like a month longer than they said.
That was 8 months ago, and today she says she's about 70% of the way there. She was literally at zero. When she first got to the ENT, since her PCP had already looked and said it was a common ear infection, their tone was an initial shrug. Then they did a hearing test and showed her the good ear first, and then the second ear. Absolutely deaf. So their tone changed to very serious. She freaked out. Broke down in tears. Fast forward from April to today (happy new year!), 70% is very positive. Hopefully, over the next 4 months she'll get the rest of it back.
I hope the same for you. Sorry to share such a long story, but I've been away from Club Polk for a while, and when I read about your situation, considering she went from "you may never hear out of this ear ever again" to the majority of hearing in that ear returning, I thought it might be a good story of hope.
None of us want any of the rest of us to go through what you are. I'm pulling for you, my friend.
smartie_panta
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Re: You know you’re getting old when…
When you yell "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" and raise a toast at 10:00 p.m. and call it a night because it's already past your bedtime and anyway it's midnight somewhere in the world.
agingboomer
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