Getting Old

[Bobby Cole]

Thanks, @Bobby Cole. One of the frustrating things is that I believe that my issues could be made better if I could find someone who really cared and actually tried to fix them. Everybody wants to just rely on amplification, which isn't the only problem. Medical people all seem to think it is age-related "male" (i.e., guns, tools, etc.) but my issue was rather sudden onset and I have worn hearing protection every time I did anything loud or percussive.

B. Obama said whilst campaigning something to the effect that all doctors really need to do is to medicate us (seniors) instead of going into any heavy duty care. I believe he said, give them a pill.

My last two visits, one to my doctor and another to a podiatrist have me pretty much believing that Obama’s attitude might be the prevailing thoughts regarding the way today’s medical practitioners view their patients.
I don’t believe that it’s stinkin’-thinkin’ when I write that especially among the younger doctors, there’s an element of apathy when it comes to the elderly.

Uh….just thought of something Don. To coincide with @Yvonne Smith’s suggestion, have you ever really “flushed” you own ears? I mean, using a bulb or ear syringe to keep them totally free of anything that might be stopping sound from hitting the drum?
I do it a couple times a week and I’m amazed every time at the amount of stuff that accumulates in such a short time.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

just think by taking a shower and getting all smelly good... if it be your timeout Go - you will smell great on the way to the morgue I know its sick, but could not help thinking that this morning.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

Sometimes when cleaning out my nose with salt water, leaning over the bath sink and inhaling the solution it shoots out my ears.

Exactly why I never would do that. nooo way Jose

 

[Lois E. Winters]

I lost the hearing in my right ear and 1/2 when I was in my mid 70s. My dad also had hearing problems, so I simply felt, it was genetic. I do wear hearing aids and the problem with that is, they pick up sound from everywhere.

I too, have a nodule on my lung and am going for another CT scan. I had one on each lung 6 years ago, and we radiated them out. Now, we are close watching this one. I have a scan every 6 months. My radiology oncologist is monitoring it with my pulmonologist.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Exactly why I never would do that. nooo way Jose

But Hedi it works great to clear things up. I use salt in my eyes, nose and sometimes ears.
I pour salt on all my wounds I get clearing vines and woods here.
It saved my life as a child, doctors were going to amputate my arm from bad hand infection I got opening a can of corned beef.
Mama took me out of hospital ,doctors called the police on her so she hid us out in motel and held my hand in hot salt water for days, while I screamed, it drew all that infection out and she told the police she had to try alternative to losing arm.
I can still remember the knotty pine walls in that motel in N.Georgia.
Did she risk my life, yes ,but she saved my arm.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I lost the hearing in my right ear and 1/2 when I was in my mid 70s. My dad also had hearing problems, so I simply felt, it was genetic. I do wear hearing aids and the problem with that is, they pick up sound from everywhere.

I too, have a nodule on my lung and am going for another CT scan. I had one on each lung 6 years ago, and we radiated them out. Now, we are close watching this one. I have a scan every 6 months. My radiology oncologist is monitoring it with my pulmonologist.

I'm glad the treatment is working so good for you Lois. Doctors can be a real blessing and I do go to them.
Gallbladder almost killed me in 1984 inflamed pancreas, and I was in coma for 13 days, they called preacher to give me last rights. Doctors saved me.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

But Hedi it works great to clear things up. I use salt in my eyes, nose and sometimes ears.
I pour salt on all my wounds I get clearing vines and woods here.
It saved my life as a child, doctors were going to amputate my arm from bad hand infection I got opening a can of corned beef.
Mama took me out of hospital ,doctors called the police on her so she hid us out in motel and held my hand in hot salt water for days, while I screamed, it drew all that infection out and she told the police she had to try alternative to losing arm.
I can still remember the knotty pine walls in that motel in N.Georgia.
Did she risk my life, yes ,but she saved my arm.

So glad..but not for me.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

Maybe I am behind in times

 

[Mary Stetler]

Same. About the last 6 months or so, I can sit down to read in the afternoon and I can nod off for 15-30 minutes. It feels like I sleep really deep too. My brother says the same thing about himself. He naps for 10-15 minutes and it feels like it slept for 8 hours. I don't like to nap. It feels like I am missing out on the day, or I should be doing something productive but yet, I get tired. So I nap.

I love naps at 2pm,generally. And if I stay off the internet for a while thereafter, I can get a lot done.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

But Hedi it works great to clear things up. I use salt in my eyes, nose and sometimes ears.
I pour salt on all my wounds I get clearing vines and woods here.
It saved my life as a child, doctors were going to amputate my arm from bad hand infection I got opening a can of corned beef.
Mama took me out of hospital ,doctors called the police on her so she hid us out in motel and held my hand in hot salt water for days, while I screamed, it drew all that infection out and she told the police she had to try alternative to losing arm.
I can still remember the knotty pine walls in that motel in N.Georgia.
Did she risk my life, yes ,but she saved my arm.

Are you sure that your mother didn’t use epsom salt to draw out the infection, not plain table salt, @Marie Mallory ? Epsom salt is known for drawing out infection, and it seems like that it what your mom would have used .

 

[Madge Bumstead]

I love naps at 2pm,generally. And if I stay off the internet for a while thereafter, I can get a lot done.

Your words are mine, Mary Stetler!

 

[Marie Mallory]

Are you sure that your mother didn’t use epsom salt to draw out the infection, not plain table salt, @Marie Mallory ? Epsom salt is known for drawing out infection, and it seems like that it what your mom would have used .

Yvonne I'm positive she used regular table salt, and I've u8sed it ever since. I was about 9 when I cut my finger, so I remember the ordeal.
I like Epsom salts too for soaking in tub. Table salt burns for a few minutes but works great.
Jake cut his hand pretty bad on boat getting thru rapids, salt has it almost healed.
Epsom Salt doesn't have the infection fighting ability table salt does.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Yvonne I'm positive she used regular table salt, and I've u8sed it ever since. I was about 9 when I cut my finger, so I remember the ordeal.
I like Epsom salts too for soaking in tub. Table salt burns for a few minutes but works great.
Jake cut his hand pretty bad on boat getting thru rapids, salt has it almost healed.
Epsom Salt doesn't have the infection fighting ability table salt does.

That is interesting, @Marie Mallory , because I always thought that epsom salt was better, although I knew that plain salt was also healing (one of the reasons that broth and pickle brine are so helpful for a sore throat).
So, I looked it up to see what I could find.

I had an experience very similar to yours as a child. Just before I started first grade, we had gone to a nearby lake, and I stepped on a rusty old nail , and it went deep into my foot.
My mom had me soaking it in hot epsom salts water for several days until the infection went away, and the red lines were gone. When I was reading about your mom doing a similar thing, I thought she might have also used the magnesium salts instead of plain sodium salt.

 

[Marie Mallory]

That is interesting, @Marie Mallory , because I always thought that epsom salt was better, although I knew that plain salt was also healing (one of the reasons that broth and pickle brine are so helpful for a sore throat).
So, I looked it up to see what I could find.

I had an experience very similar to yours as a child. Just before I started first grade, we had gone to a nearby lake, and I stepped on a rusty old nail , and it went deep into my foot.
My mom had me soaking it in hot epsom salts water for several days until the infection went away, and the red lines were gone. When I was reading about your mom doing a similar thing, I thought she might have also used the magnesium salts instead of plain sodium salt.

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I'm sure they both work and glad your mom thought fast, I had those red lines all the way up my arm, mama said look , Marie if we don't get rid of those you could lose your arm, or be very sick.
Mama was waiting for her doctor to call motel, clerk there convinced her to use table salt.
So I guess it was hotel clerk who saved my arm and life.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Good Night Yvonne and everyone else here, sweet dreams.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I'm sure they both work and glad your mom thought fast, I had those red lines all the way up my arm, mama said look , Marie if we don't get rid of those you could lose your arm, or be very sick.
Mama was waiting for her doctor to call motel, clerk there convinced her to use table salt.
So I guess it was hotel clerk who saved my arm and life.

Today our moms might have been put into prison for doing what they did. Child neglect for not taking us to the doctor.

 

[Marie Mallory]

Today our moms might have been put into prison for doing what they did. Child neglect for not taking us to the doctor.

Mary they were going to lock mama up in 1958 ,she had to hide me in motel.
She did let them sew my right index finger back on when I was 3, I cut it off running to bring her my baby brothers glass baby bottle. It has ben straight every since can't bend itm I had lots of fun in school kids making fun of me, I just joined in and laughed with them like I did family.
Ex husband used to say ," get that wooden finger out of my face".

 

[Madge Bumstead]

Mary they were going to lock mama up in 1958 ,she had to hide me in motel.
She did let them sew my right index finger back on when I was 3, I cut it off running to bring her my baby brothers glass baby bottle. It has ben straight every since can't bend itm I had lots of fun in school kids making fun of me, I just joined in and laughed with them like I did family.
Ex husband used to say ," get that wooden finger out of my face".

How I remember glass baby bottles.

Standing at the stove, bottle set down into a shallow pan of water with a tea towel or dishcloth under to prevent the bottle from breaking, or holding the bottle suspended in the pan of water till warm.

Homemade baby formula, soaking and washing the bottles, then setting them down on the counter to dry.

I used glass baby bottles religiously, switching to plastic Evenflo baby bottles when my kids got mobile, as in upright and toddling. I always worried about them falling with a glass bottle in their hands and cutting themselves bad, so plastic it was after about the one year mark.

Rubber nipples that weren't releasing adequate formula I opened by heating up the end of a diaper pin and sticking it through the rubber nipple.

Thank you for the walk down memory lane, Marie.

 

[Don Alaska]

Sometimes when cleaning out my nose with salt water, leaning over the bath sink and inhaling the solution it shoots out my ears.

Really?? That could be serious stuff @Marie Mallory.

 

[Don Alaska]

B. Obama said whilst campaigning something to the effect that all doctors really need to do is to medicate us (seniors) instead of going into any heavy duty care. I believe he said, give them a pill.

My last two visits, one to my doctor and another to a podiatrist have me pretty much believing that Obama’s attitude might be the prevailing thoughts regarding the way today’s medical practitioners view their patients.
I don’t believe that it’s stinkin’-thinkin’ when I write that especially among the younger doctors, there’s an element of apathy when it comes to the elderly.

Uh….just thought of something Don. To coincide with @Yvonne Smith’s suggestion, have you ever really “flushed” you own ears? I mean, using a bulb or ear syringe to keep them totally free of anything that might be stopping sound from hitting the drum?
I do it a couple times a week and I’m amazed every time at the amount of stuff that accumulates in such a short time.

I did that as a child, and I had it done professionally at one of the ENTs offices I saw, but I haven't done it recently. One daughter told me she thought my hearing had improved since Christmas. I doesn't seem that way to me. Probably the worse thing is that the grandchildren talk to me and they don't understand why I cannot understand what they say. It kinda breaks my heart.

Yeah, Barry didn't think much of old people and thought we were just too expensive to deal with. There was an "allow them to die" clause in the original ACA, but I don't know if it is still there now. Young doctors are mostly looking for a "job", not a "calling" like it once was. Newly-trained docs want to come to work and work a regular schedule like a lawyer. We are suffering as a result. Most are fairly well educated, but not dedicated to healing. The "new" philosophy of medicine is to think of diseases or illnesses as the "enemy" and defeat it rather than look out for the patient's welfare as a whole entity.