Random Comments and Casual Quips

[14th Colony]

Most boards have a random topic thread, I hadn't seen one here though. So I take the liberty of creating a grand random comment thread. It is one of the greatest contributions of my entire life. Even better than a Noble prize.

My first entry in this random comment and casual quip thread is this. I have pnemonia. I've been sick for a month; first with broncitus, and now with pnemonia, and I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired.

And, I apparently ruptured my eardrum in my right ear last week. Now my left ear rings 24/7, and my right ear rings 24/7. My head rings in stereo surround sound.  :shock:

Next comment contributor is going to be...

[julix]

sorry to hear that Ron.......
I knew you had been really sick!  Why didn't the doctor catch that before?  Did it just deveolp into it afterward?  I hope you get better soon.  The ear thing is painful!  I have had that before..........(((((((((hugs)))))))))

[zankoku]

Sorry you ar esick. if your ears are ringing all the time, maybe you should answer the damn phone. :twisted:

Jim

[14th Colony]

sorry to hear that Ron.......
I knew you had been really sick!  Why didn't the doctor catch that before?  Did it just deveolp into it afterward?  I hope you get better soon.  The ear thing is painful!  I have had that before..........(((((((((hugs)))))))))

I developed afterward. My immunity is so weak from lack of sleep over an extended period of time, that my bout with the broncitus must have weakened it further. And since I still wasn't sleeping more than a few hours a night even when I was supposed to be resting and recuping, I guess it developed from that.

My ears don't hurt. Apparently you can rupture your eardrum without pain, as I did, twice. I realized that when a friend told me about why my left ear has been ringing for 20 years, because it happened to his father too. So I understood that the ringing was from the rupture, which had led to feeling of numbness in my ear but not pain. That was from being too close to a large powerful speaker at a Motley Crue concert when I was 18 or 19. That was my left ear. It happened to my right ear last week at a dance club, when a friend and I were standing next to a speaker hanging out, because there wasn't mush room anywhere else to stand. That was stupid of me, but I had been concerned about my left ear and hadn't considered my right ear, facing the speaker on my right side.

[14th Colony]

I had a deep and profound thought about Dirk Benedict whilst watching the A-Team yesterday. This is a deep and complex thought, so brace yourself.

Dirk always smoked a cigar in BSG as Starbuck, and in almost every scene he had a cigar hanging from his mouth. So how did he feel in the A-Team to be the cigarless one while Hannibal always had the cigar in his mouth? Did it affect him ego-wise, to no longer be the cool one with the cigar, and have to watch the leader of the A-Team be a Starbuck-wannabe?

See? I told you this was going to be deep.

[14th Colony]

Sorry you ar esick. if your ears are ringing all the time, maybe you should answer the damn phone. :twisted:

Jim

I tried to answer but it seems to be someone pranking me because they keep hanging up!  :roll:

[zankoku]

Ron I get the painful ringing periodically. Too many years working in areas with loud noises.

I once caught a cold the morning I headed for San Diego and had to go the souther route over the mountains. Came back the next day . Felt like someone was pounding on my ear with a sledge hammer. Got to teh Doc two days later. Prognosis was one ear drum ready to rupture and the other one was close behind.

I feel your pain.

Jim

[julix]

Ron..........
Hope you get better!  Jim...........sorry to hear that!

[Dawg]

This kind of thing should be taken seriously.

Ron, sorry to hear about your pneumonia - I know it will often follow bronchitis if you're system has been weakened.  I hope you're dealing frequently with your doctor, getting the proper medication and the proper rest you need.  You need to do this to recover - no excuses.



Ringing in the ears is called tinnitis.  It can be a chronic condition and it's nothing to fool with, either.  If you haven't, you need to go to a specialist - there are ENT docs (Ear, Nose & Throat - don't ask me the technical name for the specialty, it's about a mile long) who specialize in tinnitis, and there is a National Tinnitis Association (check the name) who can also help.

Bill Shatner suffers from tinnitis - and he's used special techniques to minimize its effects.

You guys need to take care of yourselves - nobody else is going to do it for you.

All the best - you guys take care.

I am
Dawg

[14th Colony]

Thanks Dawg. I know I have to do something about my ears, but I need to get back on health insurance ASAP before I can afford to get any short or long term treatment for that.  

[julix]

I was just randomly thinking how much I loved the years 76-79. What to know why?

[CaptainTux]

Yes, please.

[julix]

Yes, please.

I have been thinking how innocent that time period was.  I didn't think so at the time, given all the problems.  Compared to now it sure seems it!  Mostly it was because of Sar Wars and Battlestar Galactica!  It resonated with me.  Clearcut heros and good vs evil........I will never forget sitting there in the theater watching mark Hamill with the setting suns on Tatooine and the swelling music.  Watching BG was much like that.  I loved everything about it.  My life is so complicated these days I have been thinking about the 70's and how I miss it.  don't get me wrong I love my kids and hubby it is just a bit of bittersweetness.  Think I will go watch my DVD's

[zankoku]

Oh Boy, julix. We have a differnt idea of the innocent years. <g> I think of the 50's and very early 60 (before the Beetles) as the innocent years. between 76 and 80 I had 3 kids.

[Breea]

i got to agree with Jim..late 50's early 60's.....i had not quite hit being a teenager yet and still had the innocene of young with me and the beginning of adult hood ahead of me...