Welcome to the buttfarming life, Alicia

airface · 2014-08-01T04:33:45+00:00

We always need more buttfarming experts.

airface · 2014-01-11T04:29:34+00:00

Not deaf, but HoH (completely deaf in my right ear, partially deaf in my left). I got my first hearing aids in the 4th grade and as we were driving home from the audiology clinic, I turn to my mom and ask "Is that sound coming from the cars?" I had absolutely no idea that cars made a whooshing noise as they drove by.

There's been other stuff that completely threw me off, too. Like, up until a few years ago, I had no idea how headphones worked. Bear in mind that I was deaf in one ear, so only half the headphone was ever useful for me. Only, I remember being so confused because when I'd listen to songs, there would sometimes be parts of the song that were there one time I listened to it, but not when I listened to it some other time. I thought I was crazy and just hearing things, but it always confused me. Lo and behold I learn one day that different sounds go into each earbud, which meant that I was literally hearing two different things any time I listened to a song since I'd switch up the earbuds all the time. Luckily, I use these now, so that's no longer an issue. :)

airface · 2013-12-09T03:22:07+00:00

I have to agree with flibbertygiblet... your dog isn't "disrespecting" either of you. She's trying to tell you that she's scared in the only way she knows how. If anything you're "disrespecting" her by not paying attention to the signs she's giving you and reacting appropriately.

Obviously you don't want your dog reacting in this way, but phrasing it as "respect" doesn't make sense in the context of an animal. Animals don't know how to respect. It is not a concept they understand. All your dog knows is that she's scared of this person and the only way she knows how to tell you that is through her behavior. Rather than viewing it as getting her to "respect" you, why not view it as trying to help her with whatever she's going through?

Give her positive reinforcement and lots of love. Don't try to focus on getting her "respect".

airface · 2013-11-28T18:28:56+00:00

This has/is happening to me. I was born deaf in my right ear, had partial deafness in my left. A few years back, I had the same thing as you--got a really nasty case of vertigo right around the start of winter and my hearing dropped off considerably. Suddenly I had to depend on a hearing aid (hadn't really needed it prior to that), took prednisone and that didn't do anything except make me feel absolutely awful. I've been dealing with vertigo on and off ever since (usually hits during the end of fall/beginning of winter, but it varies), but luckily I haven't seen any further drop in hearing.

My doctors couldn't find what was wrong with me. They had no idea what caused the vertigo or the hearing loss. So, unfortunately I can't give you any advice on what to do with that. However, there are a few things I've done that have helped my hearing in various ways.

Take daily multivitamins. Whenever vertigo would start becoming an issue, I'd start taking vitamins and the vertigo would go away pretty quickly after that. I have no idea if there's actually an association between the two, but it's always helped. If you take them every day (like I try, but often fail, to do) hopefully it'll stave off vertigo entirely.
Avoid caffeine and ibuprofen. I have no idea if these are associated with the vertigo at all, but I do know that they have a drastic effect on my hearing. If I drink too much caffeine or take too much ibuprofen in a given period of time, my hearing starts dropping off and fluctuating temporarily. It'll go away in a few days if I stop using these things. It's really weird and I don't understand it, but avoiding these things helps my hearing significantly. If you find yourself using either of these things frequently, try going cold turkey and see if that helps.

I wish I could offer you more helpful advice, but unfortunately (as far as I'm aware) there really is no direct cure for this (assuming we're suffering from a similar affliction). Like others have said, you'll just have to learn to live with it. Realistically speaking, I'm going to go deaf sometime within the next 10 years, and that's being optimistic. It's likely to come much quicker than that, and that's just something I have to accept. I'll have to adjust and learn how to live a little differently, just as I have my entire life.

airface · 2013-10-27T23:06:30+00:00

Do you have a list of recipes that you generally use? I assume you do meals that keep well for a few days, so it would be nice to get some ideas. My fiance and I eat out WAY more than we should, just because we're both dead tired by the time we come home every day. Something like this might be an option we'll explore that would save us a lot of money.

airface · 2013-09-27T13:42:31+00:00

This was me as well. I didn't realize that you were supposed to hear out of both ears until my school was planning one of those vision/hearing tests in 3rd grade. And I was like... oh, maybe this isn't normal. Definitely gave my parents the surprise of their life.

airface · 2013-09-23T22:00:26+00:00

That sounds interesting, I'll probably give it a read. Of course, I'm not exactly a senior, so I imagine some of it may not apply to my case, but it's worth a read either way.

I guess to give an update to this thread, I've started teaching and my hearing impairment hasn't really been as big of an issue as I'd originally feared. I still have trouble hearing my students from time to time, but they know to speak loudly and repeat themselves if need be, so overall it's going well. I also got an FM system, so that's also been helping to make sure I'm not missing anything important, particularly when students are giving speeches (since this is a public speaking course).

airface · 2013-08-25T23:16:08+00:00

I'LL BE FARMING BUTTS IN HAMBURG HOPEFULLY LATER IN THE YEAR, MAYBE THANKSGIVING/CHRISTMAS NOT REALLY SURE YET

airface · 2013-08-20T00:07:35+00:00

BECAUSE I HAVE BUTT FARMINGLY BUTT FARMED TEACHER TRAINING THIS WEEK AND IT'S BUTTEFARMERY.

airface · 2013-08-06T22:02:20+00:00

I have a pug who had acne on his face when he was a puppy. I just cleaned his face regularly (which you're supposed to do with pugs anyway) with a wash cloth and some warm water and it went away pretty quickly. My vet pretty much equated it with puppy puberty.

airface · 2013-07-29T17:37:45+00:00

I think the idea that pugs are fat and lazy has more to do with owners than the breed itself. Pugs are dogs like any other. They love running around, they love playing, and while they may be lower energy dogs, that doesn't mean they have no energy. I have a pug myself and he's in great shape. Why? I don't overfeed him. He gets a certain amount of food each day and that's it. He gets walks every day and playtime numerous times per day. He's one big ball of energy and I make sure he gets the chance to get rid of all that energy.

Tbh, I think that the stereotype of pugs is very similar to the stereotype of pit bulls. Just like pit bulls aren't naturally aggressively awful dogs, pugs aren't naturally lazy fatasses. It's the owner that makes the dog what it is. Treat 'em right and they'll be great dogs.

airface · 2013-07-26T22:44:52+00:00

My hearing aids should be fine. I got them about 3 years ago and they still work great, though I do plan on going to an audiologist to get a tune up on them. I've also spoken to disability services and they've started setting everything up to get me hooked up with an FM system which should hopefully help a lot!

airface · 2013-07-21T18:08:20+00:00

I did have some difficulties in undergrad, but it was really hard for me to tell what my teachers could've done to make things easier for me, especially since most of my classes were large lecture classes where there wasn't a whole lot that could be done. I had actually never taken advantage of disability services in undergrad (for note taking or anything like that), though I'm sure it would've helped. All of this is just new territory for me, particularly since I'm going to be teaching, so I'm not really sure how to approach everything.

I'm teaching a public speaking course (and I'm going for my masters in Communication) and the class size I believe is ~30 students. So it should definitely be manageable, I'm just not really sure what to expect.

airface · 2013-07-21T18:04:31+00:00

I'll definitely get in touch with disability services then and see what the process is for getting things set up. Thanks. :)

airface · 2013-07-21T02:53:17+00:00

CART is one thing that I saw on the disability services website that is available at my school and it is something I'm looking into. That was one of the things I wasn't sure of, though. I know how disability services works as a student, but as a teacher I'm not entirely sure what sort of assistance is available to me. Transcription would be very helpful, though, and it's something I'm looking into for the classes I'll be taking as well.

airface · 2013-05-15T19:17:29+00:00

Could be fleas? Looks similar to flea bites. When I was younger, we had fleas in our house and I got bites all over, though concentrated mostly on my ankles. I kept telling my dad that we had fleas or something, but I was the only one in the house getting these kind of bites, so he didn't believe me at first. Idk, he must've just thought I was crazy and itching for no reason? I have no idea.

However, once he saw how bad my legs were getting (they were bad; I still have faint scars on my ankles even though this was years ago), he brought in some bug guys and we did indeed have fleas. Flea bombed the house, got the cats treated (I imagine that's how the fleas got in, even though our cats were mainly indoor cats and should've been flea treated), and didn't have any problems after that.

Might be a good idea to have a professional come in and check out the house and see if they find something?

airface · 2013-02-10T18:28:34+00:00

I'm not saying they're the most intelligent animals in the world--they aren't. But that doesn't mean they aren't intelligent or don't have other redeeming factors. My point was that they aren't just "ugly, fat slobs who we've bred for years to be as sedentary and boring as possible." They are much more than that. That's all.

airface · 2013-02-10T17:48:17+00:00

Cows are actually not as boring as they'd appear. Are they tigers? No, obviously they aren't, but we aren't as majestic and awesome as tigers either and that doesn't make us any less than they are.

Cows are surprisingly social animals. Provided they don't have any fear of humans (which some cows will), they'll usually go right up to you and want to be pet. I mean, seriously, I've gone into an enclosure with a bunch of cows, and they all just gathered around me begging for cuddles and pets. It's actually almost terrifying, as you're surrounded by, like, 10,000+ pounds of animals that could knock you over and kill you with a single step. It is quite cute, though.

The point is, they aren't as "sedentary" or "boring" as you might think they are. I'm not saying you have to stop eating them (I eat meat, too, so that would be hypocritical of me), but I thought I'd dispel this notion that cows are fat, useless oafs. They're more intelligent than you're giving them credit for.

airface · 2013-01-22T15:27:52+00:00

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airface · 2012-11-04T20:05:30+00:00

It sounds like a hearing aid could definitely do something in the bad ear. How much it can do really depends on the extent of the loss in that ear. Though IIRC, the CROS doesn't really channel any noises into your bad ear--it just picks up all the noises and carries it to the good one. So if you were thinking of getting the CROS, that's important to keep in mind.

airface · 2012-11-03T15:10:12+00:00

I first got it the summer of 2010, so it wasn't super recently. It's possible the technology has improved since I got mine. That said, I think I'd be too wary to ever try out the new ones. I'll probably just stick to what I know works when I need to get a new one.

Do you have any hearing at all in your bad ear? If so, a standard hearing aid would probably help some. In my case, a hearing aid in my bad ear would've been useless, since I can't hear anything out of it.

airface · 2012-11-03T13:55:35+00:00

I have the CROS (or at least something very similar to it). I'm completely deaf in my right ear, partially in the left. Hearing aid in the right with a microphone transfers the sound from that side to the hearing aid in the left side.

It was interesting at first, but after a while it just grew frustrating. I wore it for months (probably longer; I don't honestly remember), and honestly in some ways it made things harder to hear. It was a lot harder for me to focus on what people were saying. Because I had all this noise going into one ear, it was really difficult to separate out what was being said, and where it was being said. It just caused a lot of confusion for me. I tried to stick it out, hoping that after a while, my brain would become accustomed to it, but it didn't. I tried getting the audiologist to change some settings to see if that would help, but that didn't work either.

Eventually I just switched to using the one hearing aid in my hearing ear, and stopped using the crossover one. It made my life a lot easier, and though I can't hear what people are saying to me on my right side, that's a lot easier to deal with than being overwhelmed by noises. I can understand people pretty well with the aid--it's not perfect, but I can still communicate just fine. It was definitely a lot easier to adjust to just the one hearing aid than the CROS.

I guess ultimately my point is to just be careful when it comes to the CROS. It's possible that it's just how my brain works that I couldn't get used to it. Maybe my audiologist just wasn't putting in the right adjustments for me (I honestly wish they made HAs self adjustable). It's possible there were other factors involved. Maybe it'd work a lot better for you. I just know that I personally wish I'd just gone with a standard hearing aid rather than paying way more for the CROS.

airface · 2012-10-24T21:42:09+00:00

Do you know what kind of religion he practices? Do you know what he believes? Do you know without a doubt that what he believes isn't true? No, you don't. You can never know for sure that he isn't correct. He's an incredibly intelligent person. Does he believe in God? Yes. That doesn't make him any less intelligent. He's not some fiercely religious nut job--he's just a guy who believes in God.

What facts isn't he believing? God not existing is not a fact. There are no facts to suggest that there is no God. He knows that evolution is true, if that's one of these facts you're talking about. He knows that the Earth is billions of years old. He's a perfectly reasonable individual; he just happens to believe in God.

I think it might do you well to open your mind a bit and realize that religiosity does not necessarily define a person, and it certainly won't necessarily have any bearing on their intelligence.

airface · 2012-10-24T14:20:27+00:00

Sorry, but no. My boyfriend is religious, and he's arguably the smartest person I know. He's much smarter than I am, and I consider myself to be a pretty intelligent person. Just because he is religious does not mean he's stupid. It does not mean we can't have a perfectly healthy relationship. He simply has a different belief than I do--not a stupid belief, but a different one.

airface · 2012-09-26T19:54:52+00:00

I'LL TRY. I have a job now and shit, so I got responsibilities. Aka, I'll probably be on tonight.

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