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Kaybo

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Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« on: August 18, 2009, 07:26:35 pm »
This may be in the wrong topic but it is about our inability to hear things correctly so I put it here...please feel free to move it if it gets to be going the wrong way...I always hear stuff wrong and usually it is VERY amusing what I hear!  After this weekend, we decided we should start a thread...so here goes:

Funny from Chicago...Thursday night dinner:

Clarice to Saralynn: (what I thought I heard) "So how do you like the Redwings?"  <wow, I didn't know they were big hockey fans...they appear to be such calm, quiet women...>

Sara's response: "The rooms are very nice..."

*what was really asked: how is the Red Roof Inn?"*    ;D ;D

K
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Sefra22

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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2009, 09:47:15 pm »
This is a great idea for a thread! I've posted this a while back, but I still laugh about it.

When Dr. Noren was placing the headframe on my head for the GK procedure, it was the most intense pain I had ever felt. Tears were welling up in my eyes, and I remember I was twisting my pant leg with my hand. He asked me if I was in pain, and I replied that I was. Then I heard him say, "Do you feel any PLEASURE?", and I'm thinking... Is this guy some sort of sadist?...I was kind of freaked out that he would ask that...Wasn't it obvious I was hurting?  So I answered with a rather cross tone  "Uh, no, no pleasure at all!", then the nurse started laughing and said "He said PRESSURE, do you feel any PRESSURE?"
"Oh yes, yes I feel pressure", I said, sheepishly....

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Lisa from Portland, Maine age 46
Diagnosed June 2006
15mm X 17mm AN right side 80% hearing loss
GK March 14,2007 Dr. Noren, Providence RI
1 Year follow-up MRI shows "slight shrinkage".
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Kaybo

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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2009, 06:56:28 am »
that's a good one...

K   ;D
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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2009, 06:59:12 am »
Oh my that is to funny Lisa....i almost spewed my coffee across my laptop screen...roflmao....Does anyone else get famthon hearing???? You know like those who lose an arm, or leg still feel it hurt or itch??? For me I hear conversations when no one is in the house.  No radio or tv on...I cant make out what is being said...I just hear talking. Or when in the car, when going straight, I'll hear the signal light click click click when it isnt on
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Dr. Benoit and Schramm, Ottawa Civic Campus
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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2009, 07:12:47 am »
Oh yes,   A thump that makes me think someone is knocking as our one doorbell doesn't work.  No one there of course.      I get a ring in the head in the night that sounds like the phone and wakes me up but no more rings heard.       I used to have a sound that made it sound like a tv was on way in the background but haven't lately.                  Figuring out what words my husband is actually saying as part of a sentence is a real challenge as he doesn't make much effort to make it a bit slower and toward me.
Part of the time sentences sound scratchy to me and my dr isn't concerned over it.        It is annoying though.         
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Right mid fossa 11-01-01
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  with nerve graft 3-23-06
   CSF leak revision surgery 4-07-06
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   near deaf on left before surgery
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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2009, 10:54:20 am »
I "hear" things all the time too. I know that door knocking one way too well. I can't begine to count how many times I've run to the door to find no one there. Now I wait until the dog runs to the door. His hearing is much more reliable than mine. I also hear "voices", mostly in the car. Isn't it weird that we hear this stuff? Does anyone else?
Left side 3.2cm AN/FN removed 12/8/08 Dr's. Shelton and Reichman. SSD, facial paralysis,taste issues, lateral tarrsoraphy 6/25/09,scheduled for eye and nasal valve surgery 6/22/11 life is GOOD!

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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2009, 09:26:32 pm »
Too funny Lisa.  Still laughing  ;D


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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2009, 12:38:07 am »
When I mishear things it's always something dirty and I laugh out loud!  Usually the person who has said something perfectly normal, when I explain what I thought I heard, is not as amused as me!  Not sure why not!
Right sided AN 2.7cm at last MRI.  Hearing loss/facial numbness.  Translab scheduled March 11th 2009.  Translab at Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia successful!  Total tumour removed, SSD, no facial issues, numbness has left the building, balance issues but they'll get better and I'm loving life!

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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2009, 07:47:23 am »
JB~
Mine is usually not very clean and NOT AT ALL what the person said - I have a good chuckle too!

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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2009, 08:40:53 am »
I'll join the crowd -- I usually don't know what was said,but think I hear things when there is nothing to hear.  I often have what I call Emily Lotella (a character from early Saturday Night Live shows)  syndrome and completely mishear what is being said and say "Never mind!" and laugh  I hear the false doorbell sound quite often too.  I wonder what causes that?

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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2009, 10:06:27 am »
well, the first few weeks after my surgery i heard music, loud & clear. it ranged from country/banjo stuff to rock music to classical & even ABBA (dancing queen)...that has stopped now, thankfully, b/c it only  happened when i was trying to sleep. now i think i hear water running. weird.
surgery performed on july 28, 2009 at the Ohio State University Medical Center by Dr. B. Welling & Dr. McGregor.
As of 8/10/09, left side numbness (comes & goes), lost maybe partial hearing in AN ear, LOUD tinnitus, but walking & balance is going very well.

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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2009, 08:50:59 am »
While visiting my mother-in-law this weekend, we started talking about how erratic her blood pressure was. She said she had White Colt Syndrome. I’m just sitting there trying to figure out if I’ve ever heard of this malady… nope never heard of it! Then she continued her story… “Yeah, every time I go into the doctors office, my blood pressure spikes”. It was only then that I realized she said White Coat Syndrome. I thought of this thread and had to laugh!

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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2009, 06:54:48 pm »
K

This is a perfect thread to start.  I loved the "mishears" shared thus far.
I know this has happened to me too, but right now it appears that I've blocked them from my memory:-)

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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2009, 07:21:48 pm »
Oh my, Lisa's anecdote gave me a good laugh.
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Re: Funny things that we THINK we hear...
« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2009, 08:52:55 pm »
Still laughing over Lisa's!! ;D ;D

All of us with severe tinnitus can readily identify with the voices, bells, etc.  Late last night my husband was out in the yard with the electric trimmer ...... not really because he was right next to me, but I teased him that it sure sounded like he was!

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Right MVD for trigeminal neuralgia, 1994, Pittsburgh, PA
Left retrosigmoid 2.6 cm AN removal, February, 2008, Duke U
Tumor regrew to 1.3 cm in February, 2011
Translab AN removal, May, 2011 at HEI, Friedman & Schwartz
Oticon Ponto Pro abutment implant at same time; processor added August, 2011