I knew my hearing was bad, but wow! I didn’t know it was this bad.
On Tuesday, I had a hearing test done. The last hearing test I had was in North Carolina back in the spring.
Then, my hearing was moderate to severe with a 32% speech recognition at 75DB. This was a headache. I couldn’t really understand people. My audiologist told me just to ask people to repeat or rephrase. It worked for the most part.
Now, I have to have everyone finger spell to me or try to write into my palm which I am not good at. Before it was some time’s, but now That is the only way I know what is being said.
I hear them, usually, I just don’t know what was said. Well, the hearing test on Tuesday showed that I have Moderate to profound hearing with absolutely no speech recognition even at the loudest level of 300DB.
Most people, normal people, hear all words perfectly at 30 to 40SB. To think, my hearing used to be perfect.
Even if there is a drug to shrink my tumor, I doubt I will ever get that perfect hearing back. My only chance to hear anything, even more than I do now, is through the ABI.
I had an MRI done a couple of weeks ago, and I had a copy of that sent to Dr. Friedman. I am waiting to hear his opinion on it. Does t he t tumor need to come out now? The doctors at UAMS in Little Rock certainly think so.
Everywhere I turn to try to do events, speaking, book signings, Edward’s playing music, everything is going to cost a lot of money. No places will let us have a discount or donate a few hours to let us try to raise funds. The mall, where I wanted to set up a table, wants to charge $600 a day. I explained the situation and they didn’t care.
It seems all people want is money. I probably wouldn’t even make $600 that day, so I would be losing money. What else can I do? I am not trying to get rich or make money by scamming people. I need surgery, and if it wasn’t for this I would not be trying to get paid off my book or story. I don’t know where to turn to now. I just hope in the very near future someone out there will give me a break.
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