Finally going to a doctor to get my tinnitus checked out. Long story short, it’s fucking brain tumors. Remember kids, don’t ignore health shit.
New fear unlocked, great
For future reference how does one go from tinnitus to tumors? What’s the testing. I know someone with severe tinnitus they say is mind numbing and makes them feel insane its so bad.
So, I am happy to at least give you my story. I’m an old school metal head. I’ve been to a lot of rock shows. A lot. So when I started having ringing in my right ear I was just kind of like…no shit, don’t color me shocked. It wasn’t extreme, but it was there and it was annoying and it was weird. Almost sometimes like an old timey radio between channels. Anyways, I ignored it forever as part of my own bad life choices. But I have this other annoying thing called a wife, and we are blessed with decent health care so I eventually went to the doc. He looked in there and said he didn’t see shit. But out of abundance of caution he sent me to a fancy ENT. Took a month to get an appointment, and he didn’t see shit either, but out of another abundance of caution he sent me for a noodle MRI. Got a call from his office the next day that I needed to come in as soon as possible. That’s when you know you’re fucked. So anyways, my tinnitus was caused by a tumor wrapped around my auditory nerve. This was caused by a super rare genetic disease called neurofibromas type 2. So basically I am a mutie whose super power is to grow tumors on my cranial nerves. Sweet. There is nothing w cure. Treatment is currently radiation or surgery. I’ve had one surgery which took that tumor but also my hearing on that side. I have another surgery next month for a tumor in my fucking face, which grew off the nerve that runs through there. I can actually feel that fucker with my figer, and if I mess with it my ear goes numb. So long story short kids. 1) wear hearing protection at shows 2) get weird medical shit checked out. If you’d like to learn more about neurofibromatosis please visit www.ctf.org
Holy shit. That’s terrible you lost your hearing on one side from a surgery. Its even scarier your going to get the other surgery done and could lose hearing all together. You will one be in my thoughts for sure. Secondly I hope they get you taken care of and people ANC headphones or earbuds will change your life if your a concert goer, gun shooter, construction, basically anything where you need to hear but also protect your hearing. Tinnitus is a removed. Nothing like EEEEEEEEE to soothe the already tense nerves. Thanks for the info. Don’t put off health issues people it can only get worse!
Edit: kinda a wild metal story after some thought. Thanks for sharing! Wild
Forgot a lighter which has so far led to 2 weddings and 5 kids?
In the first week of school, a buddy and I wandered around with beer and joints to various dorms but forgot a lighter. Asking around for one, we made a new friend. Fast forward a couple years, “new friend” let me know about a home for rent opening up. I rounded up some folks (including original buddy) and we rented it. Except one guy was gone for the summer. So, a gal came from out of town to live with there. We became friends, she fell in love and ended up moving here. Between her, her best friend and sister they’ve had 5 kids with partners mostly from that original friend circle.
So, if I had remembered a lighter way back in first year, we wouldn’t have put a house of folks together, wouldn’t have met gal and her pals and thus a few weddings and kids would’ve happened differently or not at all.
I was planning to join the military after high school. It was a 3 hour drive to the closest MEPS (military entrance processing station), so the local recruiters only made the trip out there once a week. I already had my date set when another guy dropped out, so my recruiter asked if I was interested in going a week earlier. I said absolutely, because I was dead et on being in the Army, so what difference did one more week make?
So that’s how I enlisted on Sept 5th, 2001…
Lol, you got 4 days of pre 9/11 military. Must of been glorious.
Damn. Do you think if you hadn’t gone early you still would have enlisted?
Was bored one day and decided to watch Bojack Horseman since it had that guy from Arrested Development in it. It was weird, but funny, so I kept watching.
After a while, I started to recognize a lot of myself and things similar to my life, and since I was seeing someone else do this stuff, I knew that it wasn’t healthy or necessarily supposed to be funny if it were a real person.
It helped me to start understanding that all my life, I’ve had horrible depression that lead me to really sabotage myself and almost every relationship I’ve ever had with anyone.
I ended up talking to my doctor, and it turned out to be something that was very easy to fix, and as soon as I got on the proper medicine, I almost immediately started experiencing life in a new way.
It helped me come to better terms with a lot of my childhood, and I no longer felt a crushing weight every day and could deal with day to day events in a healthy way.
I’m still a damaged person who doesn’t quite understand a lot of things I think “normal” people understand, but I’m able to identify it and talk about it instead of it making me angry and frustrated.
I’m in an overall significantly better place now. I understand myself a good bit more, and I’ve come a long way in being a better person. I still carry a lot of emotional weight not that I realize all the bad things I’ve done to so many people, and I frequently feel the loss of those relationships, but it’s more a reminder of how far I’ve come instead of something actively hurting me still after all these years.
I really liked the show, and there’s a lot of fun things in it, but it’s hard for me to watch now, as it reminds me too much of old me. I do really love Paul F Tomkins though and listen to him on Threedom and I just saw him on the Comedy Bang Bang tour.
I never expected a talking horse to turn my life around when nothing else did, but I won’t complain.
In 9 days, you will be forced to pay to exist.
Asked my boss jokingly and nonchalantly if they would relocate me. I didn’t expect an easy yes and full support. Then I asked my boss’ boss, and he said yes too. 2 years later, I uprooted my whole life and moved across the world to a new country with my wife. Biggest life changing event I’ve had so far.
I took a first date call in the park cuz I didn’t want to stop hanging out with my friends, I saw a big dog walk past and say “dang that’s a big ass dog”, and the apologized for the cursing, turns out that’s what made my husband fall for me
No judgements, hope you and your doggo is happy.
In HS, a friend of mine tried to get me into MUDs… I played their favorite one briefly (it was very low pop and very mechanical) so they suggested another one they Admin’d for - I also very briefly played that (for like three days)… like five years later I didn’t have a good TTRPG group so I tried picking it up again and loved it… met my partner there, moved to another country… a seriously large chunk of my life can be drawn back to my friend asking me to try their game and me playing it for a handful of days then randomly deciding to try it years later.
Ha, this brought back a memory.
I wore 2 layered T shirts to the mall way back in the day when any deviation in style was seen as shocking, (ETA my kids do not understand just how ridiculously conformist the past was, it’s hard to believe if you didn’t live through it) and this somehow caught the eye of a guy who was in a punk band, which got me into that scene, which, while I wouldn’t call it wholesome, probably saved my life, as I was so alienated at school and really unhappy.
Obviously it doesn’t matter, but my brain was stuck on the title for a while because you make a decision, not “take” a decision.
😂
It’s bad enough on its own that you can’t afford to fuck it up.
“take a decision” is also a valid phrase: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take a decision
In English English decisions can be taken as well as made… although it’s possibly more common to use “make” in the present tense and “took” in the past tense. i.e. “They took the decision to make no more decisions until tomorrow.”
I made friends with this person I met online in a game, spent the evening gaming together. Changed my life forever
Playing Outer Wilds ::)
Basically all of them.
I got my pupper thinking I was babysitting an invasive species (not in the classic breed list) and now I’m three generations down the doggy lineage.
Whatchu mean by invasive?
Getting a haircut
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