So J.D. Souther is dead. Or maybe he styled it JD, no periods, like you-know-who the hillbilly racist. Still, a moment of silence from me.
:::a moment passes:::
You probably don’t know him, but I think of him as providing many entries on the playlist from a particular time in my life. He was a songwriter, and wrote a lot for the Eagles, among many others. To me, though, it all comes down to “The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band,” one album that came out in 1973 and I discovered a couple years later. It still evokes that time in Athens, when my world was school, beer in student bars, health-food restaurants, the rural roads around the county, and all that. Later on, Souther would appear on “thirtysomething” as John Dunaway, a crunchy-granola social-justice type who tempts Hope with infidelity, but she resists. When is “thirtysomething” coming to streaming, anyway? I need to reacquaint myself with these people.
Anyway, a toast to JD. Lately, all the sexy men I remember from my youth are revealed as very old men. And I know what that means.
Speaking of the decrepitude of age, let’s hurry up with this new technology, so I don’t have to get a knee replacement:
(W)hy replace a knee if just the cartilage can be repaired instead? That line of thinking has led to new techniques flipping the script on how to mend troublesome knees.
“We’re not going to stop arthritis,” says Cassandra Lee, chief of the division of sports medicine at UC Davis Medical Center, as well as the orthopedic surgeon who operated on McHatton. “But can we push that knee replacement way down the road? That is, I think, the ultimate goal.”
…Wiley and colleague Ken Gall, a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke, are instead trying to re-create cartilage in the lab. Over the last several years they’ve developed a hydrogel composed of polyvinyl alcohol, a polymer often used in contact lenses, and cellulose fibers. Tests in a compression machine, Wiley says, demonstrated that the product could support 1,100 pounds of force, simulating five years of use. The hydrogel, which is pressed into the end of the femur bone, is being used in a Phase 1 human trial in Latin America. Wiley and Gall hope to get the green light to begin human trials in the United States sometime next year.
You should not be one little, teensy-weensy, speck of surprised to hear that the guy who killed himself and others in the OceanGate submersible disaster was a prickly egomaniac:
In 2016, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush steered paying customers in the Cyclops I, a Titan predecessor, to the wreckage of the Andrea Doria, a ship that sank in 1956 off Massachusetts, former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge said during a hearing about the Titan’s implosion.
Yep, ol’ Tock Rush nearly got the thing stuck on the bottom, checking out the wreck of the Andrea Doria, and only turned the controls over to another with petulance. Which he had a lot of:
Lochridge elaborated on Tuesday, testifying about a culture in which his safety concerns were shrugged off to feed Rush’s ego — by accomplishing feats no other reputable deep-sea exploration company had tried because they were dangerous.
You don’t say.
In other news at this hour, happy interest rate cut. And happy birthday to Dexter, before the day slips away.
Dorothy said on September 18, 2024 at 6:18 pm
Not to be Dorothy Downer but unless that imitation cartilage is ready in the next couple of years, you are likely going to have to do the knee surgery. And speaking from experience 11 years ago when I had my knee replacement, when you get yours done, make sure you get the handy dandy raised seat for your toilet. You’ll be very glad you did. A friend told me about this tip and I was very grateful.
A friend who lives about 70 miles north of me is having her knee replacement surgery in February once she gets on Medicare. Her bout with breast cancer a few years ago was pricey so she’s waiting for the knee surgery, and it won’t come a moment too soon. She is in significant pain. She found what she calls an ‘ice machine’ for her post surgery recovery and asked me if I could meet the seller since we both live in the same town. I said Of Course! So on Sunday I met the lady in the parking lot of the library. She and I b.s.’d a bit. After about 5 minutes of chat she said she has a friend who moved into the same subdivision I did. Turns out she lives across the street from me. This was delightful for me to learn as I don’t get to find out I have mutual friends very often. Having moved five times since 2002 it’s a real treat to have that hoot of recognition when someone says a familiar name.
When we were house hunting in Cincinnati (our destination when we had to leave Pittsburgh in 2002) I was waiting in the lobby if a restaurant to meet hubby for a weekend of house hunting. I watched couple after couple meet, embrace, smile, talk enthusiastically to catch up with each other. It gave me the biggest pang of sadness because all I could think was “when am I going to be able to do that again?! I’ll know no one here!”. It was a crappy feeling. But I’m a pretty talkative person so eventually I got to experience that in almost every city we’ve moved to since leaving Pittsburgh. You can’t find out if you know someone via someone else until you chat them up!
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Julie Robinson said on September 18, 2024 at 6:52 pm
We got the tall toilets six or so years ago and boy howdy they are nice. I missed them all the way through Europe, where I felt I was visitng a kindergarten. But after working out with our trainer for a year, I didn’t have any trouble getting up from them. I’m still fat and my ankle hurts all the time, but I can get that fat butt up from a low toilet easily and without knee pain.
Anyone else want to send Israel to the war court at the Hague?
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brian stouder said on September 18, 2024 at 7:55 pm
Excellent link! Playlists from my life would be comprised by The Police, Pearl Jam, and a mish-mash of odds and ends and one-offs scattered across the years
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Suzanne said on September 18, 2024 at 8:27 pm
Several months ago, I needed to use the powder room at a funeral dinner. The handicapped stall was occupied so I went into a regular stall. Turns out, the dinner was in the church’s pre-school area so it was a very low toilet. But I had to go badly so down I went, wondering the entire time what I would do if I could not get up! There was nothing but a flimsy toilet paper holder to grab onto. Fortunately, I made it up and without grunting. A win! At my age and with the past couple of tough health years I have experienced, the smallest things do bring me joy.
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Sherri said on September 18, 2024 at 8:35 pm
Arthritis in both knees, but doing my heavy squats helps keep things moving. In general, resistance training has helped deal with joint problems for me.
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Deborah said on September 18, 2024 at 9:18 pm
LB told me that if for some reason you have to sit on the ground outside or on the floor inside and you’re over 50 you better have a plan about how you’re going to get back up before you get down. When I garden I keep a small foldable stool to sit on so I don’t have to sit on the ground or squat. It’s only about 8 or 9″ off the ground but makes all the difference. I have to admit there have been times when I’ve had to get down on the floor to scrub something or whatever, then I’ve had to call for help to get back up.
In Abiquiu we sleep on futons on the floor, I have over the years had to figure out a plan to get up. First I turn over, get on my knees, then lean forward face down and push myself up with my arms and move my legs from a kneeling to a standing position slowly, one at a time. It’s the only way now days. Using my leg muscles is useless. Maybe I could figure out some leg exercises to build up my thigh muscles but I haven’t yet done that.
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Sherri said on September 18, 2024 at 10:17 pm
Back in the day in Silicon Valley, there was a surplus electronics store called Weird Stuff Warehouse. Looking at the pictures from the report on the doomed submersible, it looks like it was built by a bunch of hackers scavenging parts at Weird Stuff Warehouse. I can’t believe that people paid money to dive in that thing.
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A different Connie said on September 18, 2024 at 11:50 pm
Heads up, we bought thirtysomething when it came out on DVD a few years ago; it’s not nearly as good as I remember it when I was watching it in my early 30s.
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Dave said on September 19, 2024 at 9:59 am
I remember J. D. Souther and Souther, Hillman, Furay. I knew more about Hillman, a former Byrd and present in many versions of the Southern California sound, and Richie Furay, native of Yellow Springs, OH, who was in Buffalo Springfield, a personal favorite, and Poco, one of the first country-rock bands. I think there were only two albums by those three, and I believe I’ve read that they were more or less thrown together by a record company.
Can’t say that I ever watched thirtysomething, there was about a ten year period where the only thing I remember watching were kid-oriented shows, it seems like I mostly remember TGIF, the ABC block of shows aimed at kids.
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Dorothy said on September 19, 2024 at 10:02 am
Have to come here to tell y’all that my son just got two tickets for us to see Hakeem Jeffries on the OSU campus in late November. I’m so excited!! The last politician I got to see in person was President Obama when he was running again in 2012. Let’s hope we have a lot to be happy about on that date since it’ll be almost 3 weeks after the election.
Also is anyone else now getting a warning when submitting comments here about the website being ‘not secure’? I never got that until yesterday. And i just got it again today whenI submitted this comment. I think this might be part of a Chrome update I did yesterday.
Also I loved thirtysomething when it was on but I feel like it’s not going to age well in 2024 if given a chance to watch the episodes again. Still, I’d prefer to come to that conclusion myself.
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Dave said on September 19, 2024 at 11:04 am
Dorothy, I’ve gotten that warning before but not recently. However, I purchased a new Kindle tablet last March and I cannot open up this website on it, although I’ve always been able to open it on other Kindle tablets. Instead, I get a message with a picture of a robot on its side sleeping that says, “Site not Found, well, this is awkward, the site you’re looking for is not here.” Oh, and DreamHost is underneath.
As for your other warning, I’ve discovered that clearing out the history usually solves the problem of receiving a site not secure message.
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Deborah said on September 19, 2024 at 11:10 am
I watched Thirtysomething, probably every episode, I liked it a lot back then but I can imagine that I wouldn’t like it now. I’m trying to conjur a picture of the actors but I can’t, I’ll have to Google images so I can remember.
I do that with food, I think back about things I used to like but now, not so much. Tastes evolve. I used to read Bob Greene, lol.
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alex said on September 19, 2024 at 11:13 am
Dorothy, I started getting that warning years ago and I remember addressing it. I think J.C. Burns explained it and that it’s nothing to be concerned about.
Tonight I’m signed up to attend Kamala and Oprah’s online rally. I suppose it’s one way to feel connected here in lonely red Indiana. Although I must say I’ve been pleasantly surprised to see a lot of Harris/Walz signs and will probably get one of my own. On Midway Drive in Auburn the other day, there were three households for Harris/Walz and only one for Trump/Vance.
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Dexter Friend said on September 19, 2024 at 11:37 am
I had a nice birthday, Facebook lit up for me and there were many phone calls and nice mailed cards. The little party for me was pushed forward to Sunday in Findlay as my strained back gets better. Thanks for remembering.
Yeah, the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic was where my wife insisted on having her knee replacements. A prominent ortho doc who operates in hospitals around NW Ohio here told her not to have the surgery, and he refused to operate, saying her CMT disease would not allow for a proper recovery. She was adamant, found a young ortho in Cleveland who agreed to do both knees, and had success with knee #1. Then , hell broke loose during surgery #2, as the big light above the operating table exploded during surgery. We were later convinced the infection she contracted must have come from that situation. As she was not healing, the surgeon apologized and actually told her if she wanted to file a lawsuit, to go ahead. Ever try to sue a hospital? Yeah. The law firms we contacted said their fees would be substantial and they all agreed to win a case in court would be nearly impossible. Cleveland Clinic has big-time lawyers, of course, and they almost never lose a case like she had.
So, as you may recall, she never made it home, just shuttled between hospitals and nursing homes, where she died of Covid19 the day Biden was sworn in. She waited until Biden replaced Trump before she let go.
So much success with joint replacement surgeries, and so little horrible results. Trust your gut, I guess…and if a great surgeon says to not have the surgery, listen.
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Julie Robinson said on September 19, 2024 at 3:47 pm
Deborah, Sherri’s right about the squats, and you want to learn a hip hinge, so you’re using your hamstrings and glutes as well as abdominals to get up from a chair. No pressure on the knees that way. You can probably find good examples on YouTube or Instagram.
We watched thirtysomething religiously back in the day. It was us in our 30’s; D working in advertising, me a stay at home mom. Of course we didn’t quite have the cool friends or financial resources as Hope and Michael, but still. One episode stands out, where they showed all the stresses each had through the day, she at home, he at the office/pressure cooker. It helped us understand each better. Maybe it wouldn’t hold up but I’d like to watch a few episodes.
Happy Birthday, Dexter!
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Sherri said on September 19, 2024 at 4:11 pm
Julie is right, learning the hip hinge is important. How I practiced the hip hinge to get it right: hold a dowel on my shoulders. Stand about a foot away from a wall. Then reach back for the wall with my butt as I bent over, keeping my back neutral. You’re bending at the hips, not the waist.
Most of us don’t use our glutes, even if we walk a lot. I had to learn how, and build mine up. The simplest way to start is with bridges.
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Sherri said on September 19, 2024 at 4:34 pm
So, Republicans reportedly want the Trump-endorsed GOP candidate for NC governor, Mark Robinson, to drop out in the wake of today’s CNN story.
Let’s review what we all knew about Mark Robinson before today:
-He’s a Holocaust-denying anti-Semite.
-He’s anti-abortion, with no exceptions, even though he paid for his girlfriend’s abortion.
-He’s viciously transphobic, homophobic, and misogynistic
-And he said at a church recently “some folks just need killing”
So I’m not sure why this is what has Vance and Trump distancing themselves from him: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html
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Sherri said on September 19, 2024 at 5:31 pm
I continue to be blown away by the story of JD Vance and Springfield, OH.
Springfield is a success story. The Haitians weren’t dumped on Springfield, they were attracted to Springfield to fill jobs, as Springfield recovered from being a dying city. Yes, being a growing city has a new set of issues, and the Republican leaders of Springfield contacted their Senator for help with those issues, never expecting that he’d throw them under the bus. After all, this is a man who moved to Ohio claiming he wanted to revitalize cities like Springfield.
Instead of helping Springfield, he lied about them, and continues to lie about them, even though he has admitted that he is lying!
Look, I have never liked Vance. I thought he was full of shit when everyone was fawning over Hillbilly Elegy. And I despise Peter Thiel. But even I could never imagine this scenario.
Is this just another example of “everything Trump touches turns to shit”?
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Deborah said on September 19, 2024 at 8:27 pm
Vance and this crypto crap are a package, pure bunk. Will they ever learn? And my right wing sister says she was better off 4 years ago so she’s voting for Trump. As I’ve said before that’s just BS so she doesn’t have to say the real reason is she doesn’t like black or brown people.
You folks who’ve mentioned that you’ve had plantar fasciitis, have you ever tried rolling your foot around on a spikey plastic ball? It feels great, don’t know why but they say it’s something like the way acupuncture works. It was cheap on Amazon so that’s good.
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Jason T. said on September 20, 2024 at 11:18 am
Sherri at 18:
I have a fair amount of familiarity with Springfield, having spent some time there over the years. We go back a minimum of once a year for the big antiques show at the Clark County fairgrounds.
You’re absolutely right. It’s a city that was completely on its ass (like a lot of rust-belt cities). When I started going there 20 years ago, the big landmark downtown was a giant printing plant that once printed glossy magazines like Collier’s. It closed in the 1950s (!!!), and was still there in the early 2000s, mostly empty and rotting!
Houses are now being fixed up. Small businesses are reopening. If you pass through there, I recommend touring the Westcott House and Wittenberg University. Some good restaurants, too.
That J.D. Vance beat Tim Ryan for the Ohio senate seat — and is now two hops from being President of the United States — is a real indictment of not just the Republican Party, but America.
The calumnies being spread about Springfield are some of the most shocking lies I have ever heard in my lifetime ever said by one group of Americans about another group of Americans; they rival the lies that were put out about Iraq and Muslims by the Bush administration.
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Julie Robinson said on September 20, 2024 at 12:58 pm
So, if you ever want to feck yourself, as the Irish say, lose your wallet in Ireland. I’ve spent 15 or so hours getting replacement cards so far. I’m lucky that there wasn’t much cash and my passport was elsewhere. I was not the family member we worried about at the beginning of the trip.
No one used the cards and I was able to lock them each through their phone apps. That was after I figured out I needed to change my phone’s time back to home. It could have been so much worse.
D is leaving on another trip Sunday, so until I get one of the new cards, I’ll be buying groceries the old way, in cash.
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Dorothy said on September 20, 2024 at 1:37 pm
Julie do you know if you accidentally left it somewhere, or was it pick pocketed from you?
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Julie Robinson said on September 20, 2024 at 2:56 pm
Not pick pocketed, no one to blame but myself. I took out a coin for a street musician, daughter took it across the street, I failed to get wallet back in my purse. No one was near us because they were all across the street. I was fecking stupid!
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Sherri said on September 20, 2024 at 3:48 pm
The stuff that CNN didn’t print about Mark Robinson is showing up on social media, and whooo boy, is it graphic! We’re talking Penthouse level smut. This is the elected Lt Gov of North Carolina, endorsed by Trump for governor. He had a fast rise in GOP politics thanks to support from evangelical power brokers, naturally.
Yesterday was quite a news dump. NYMag reporter Nuzzi having a relationship with RFKJr, while covering the presidential race. More about Matt Gaetz at a drug-fueled party with a 17-year-old. Good Christian conservative family man Mark Green, Representative from Tennessee, having an affair with a woman much younger, and his daughter blaming the culture of DC. Christopher Rufo revealed to have an Ashley Madison account, created after his wife, who was an undocumented immigrant, had his first child.
Mark Robinson was already headed for a loss, and the GOP will dump him, because they might stand behind a white man caught doing all manner of things, but not a Black man.
Olivia Nuzzi will end up over at Bari Weiss’s place, which was always where she belonged.
Mark Green will get re-elected despite his divorce.
Matt Gaetz will continue to avoid any consequences for his underage dalliances.
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David C said on September 20, 2024 at 4:26 pm
They said on the radio this morning that Robinson had to withdraw by midnight last night or he couldn’t be replaced, so they’re stuck with him. Robinson will be the Alan Keyes of North Carolina (I hope).
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Dexter Friend said on September 20, 2024 at 5:20 pm
I was pick-pocketed on the 35th/Sox L platform during a rush for the trains after a sold-out White Sox game, in 1986. A team of kids about 10 years old swiped my billfold from my front pocket, passed it off to each other, I chased, screaming at them, one kid threw down my wallet. I lost $118 cash and my goddam Amtrak ticket home. And my library card. I got my driver’s license and credit card and other cards back, still in the billfold. My home insurance came through with $100…a week later they upped it to $200, not a help to me. My buddy from work loaned me the cash for a new ticket home on the train. You never forget shit like that…38 years ago and it was a lesson, alright. Now I carry nothing in my pants pockets. I wear vests with zipped pockets. Ain’t never been picked since.
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ROGirl said on September 20, 2024 at 6:00 pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/20/trump-jewish-americans-israel/
I’m honored to do my part to defeat the fat orange turd. In the next Zoom meeting I’ll be sure to let George Soros know that his plan for world domination is working.
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Sherri said on September 20, 2024 at 8:00 pm
The games company Cards Against Humanity bought a patch of land in Texas to interfere with Trump’s plan to build a wall. They still own the land. I guess Elon Musk thought that since they weren’t doing anything with it, he could trash it for SpaceX purposes. After all, he’s going to take humanity to Mars!!
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/cards-humanity-elon-musk-spacex-lawsuit-trespassed-texas-land-rcna172016
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alex said on September 20, 2024 at 11:23 pm
Black Nazi cosplay is an erotic kink? Will wonders never cease?
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Jeff Gill said on September 21, 2024 at 7:54 am
I read the words “Souther-Hillman-Furay Band” and I know I’m getting old. Hillman & Furay are both still with us, both born in 1944. Richie Furay has Ohio roots, from the same town Dave Chapelle grew up in, Yellow Springs (and SNL announced their first few shows, but stopped before listing the host for Nov. 9 . . . will they get Dave again?).
We place the World Heritage plaque today at the Newark Earthworks, and the country club closes Dec. 31st. We’re entering the northernmost moonrises on the 18.6 year cycle that make the earthworks qualify for what UNESCO calls “outstanding universal value” and the club is intent on going out stinkers; the first good nighttime moonrise for observation in this cycle would have been Monday night, Sept. 23, but I’m almost relieved it’s going to be rainy and cloudy, so their obstructionism isn’t blocking what could have been a public event. For their shenanigans in 2005 when they thought they’d always be on the site keeping out the riff-raff, here’s a gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/us/ohio-indian-mounds-hallowed-ground-and-a-nice-par-3.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU4._qaE.5fjs_uC1ihRd&smid=url-share
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basset said on September 21, 2024 at 5:46 pm
My own recent birthday having gone unnoticed and unobserved, even at home, I’ll try a different topic.
Nance, I would imagine that in that time & place you would have had many opportunities to see Pure Prairie League live? Only once myself, they opened for Santana in Bloomington, playing to one side of the basketball arena, and when they were done a substantial portion of the audience got up and left.
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Julie Robinson said on September 21, 2024 at 8:11 pm
Happy belated birthday, basset. I didn’t get to check in very often during our trip, so sorry if I missed it. As for the at home part, next year talk it up! Talk about how you want to celebrate, where you want to eat, etc. In fact, talk it up now with a conversation that you’d like to be celebrated. People don’t know what you don’t tell them.
Last night we got to watch our lad perform in Jersey Boys at a local theatre and it was soooo good. If you ever get a chance to see the show, do. The music is fantastic and the story poignant.
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Jeff Gill said on September 21, 2024 at 8:52 pm
Happy birthday, Basset! Make a month of it.
This may be the autumnal equinox, but the sun beat me to a pulp today. Not a good day for walking tours, but we had takers, bless ‘em.
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Deborah said on September 22, 2024 at 8:27 am
Happy Bday Basset, or hope it was happy. What day was it?
I gained 10 lbs during the summer, partly from eating all the wrong stuff and partly from not walking because of hikers heel. Now that I’m back in Chicago I’m eating right and back to walking but haven’t lost an ounce.
I finally had my audiology appointment this past week. First I had a test then I saw a Dr. It turns out my left ear is worse than my right and they want me to have an MRI to rule out an abnormality in my ear. This seems excessive to me. My hearing loss is in the mild stage overall. I do want to correct it with aids because I’m tired of asking people to repeat what they just said and they’re probably very tired of having to do that. MRIs are super expensive, I haven’t made the appointment for it yet because I’m getting other opinions from people who might have what they call unilateral hearing loss where they hear better from one ear. Do any of you have that and did an Dr ask you to have an MRI? I know we have an older crowd here so I thought give it a shot to ask that question.
After Googling it I found that there can be something called an acoustic neuroma in the ear which is a growth on a nerve that leads to the brain that can form. If it is found, they can watch it over time and if needed it can be treated with radiation or surgery. So I assume that’s what they’d be looking for with an MRI.
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Mark P said on September 22, 2024 at 10:09 am
Deborah, my mother had surgery for an acoustic neuroma. There are potential side effects, and she suffered from them. She lost all hearing in that ear, plus the sense of balance, and that side of her face was permanently paralyzed. I hate to bring that negativity, but it’s something worth talking to the doctor about if it comes to that point.
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David C said on September 22, 2024 at 12:50 pm
I bought hearing aids a couple of months ago. I’ve had hearing loss in one ear that was discovered when I had my kindergarten hearing test, so 60 years ago. I’m glad I got them. At first they drove me crazy. I was hearing things I probably haven’t heard in years. It took me a couple of weeks to adjust.
Mary had to get a CAT scan to rule out any structural problem that may be causing her Parkinsonism (nothing found and no diagnosis until we see the neurologist in February and don’t ever tell my about long waiting periods in countries with health care systems that work). Anyway, the hospital CAT scan would have been $4,400. Our insurance steered us to a stand alone imaging clinic and her CAT scan was $350 for the procedure, reading by a radiologist in the US, and a copy of the report sent to our PCP. I bet there’s somewhere like that in Chicago, Deborah.
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basset said on September 22, 2024 at 1:17 pm
No significant hearing loss yet despite plenty of loud music back in the day, including the Who from the front of stage pit and Grand Funk Railroad from the first row side directly in front of the bass bins back before I knew to wear earplugs.
Birthdays… would rather let em slide, if nobody remembers or does anything I’m not gonna ask for it. All that family stuff just makes me sad anyway. Mine was Sept. 2.
Weight… lost around 14-16 lb in the past few months depending on which scale I want to believe, just don’t feel like eating a lot of the time. Maybe the radiation had something to do with that.
The pottery project I mentioned awhile back is not going well. I seem unable to master fundamental wheel skills, those who are better at it say practice will correct that but I keep practicing the same mistakes.
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Heather said on September 22, 2024 at 4:37 pm
Suzanne @16, I couldn’t agree more. I suspect some of my hip pain is from not using my glutes enough. I just got back from a trip to Ireland where we did a ton of walking and hiking, and I kept reminding myself to “activate the glutes!” My hips were still a bit stiff and sore at the end of the day, but it was manageable. And despite eating and drinking a ton, I managed not to gain any weight.
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Carter Cleland said on September 22, 2024 at 7:20 pm
Julie Robinson at #2: Netanyahu in the Hague cannot happen too soon. And Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and a host of other genocidal sociopaths.
If you can stomach 68 minutes of heart-wrenching history about the slide of Israel into a pariah state, with nearly zero allies alongside them besides Uncle Sam, check out this episode of The Daily. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/podcasts/the-daily/israel-extremism-west-bank.html?action=click&module=audio-series-bar®ion=header&pgtype=Article
Also, watch both Where Olive Trees Weep and Israelism, for more sickening stories of how Israel continues to write itself into history as a poor, weak, defenseless nation/state. It’s gross.
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