And after 3 months of Full Time employment...
On 2/19/2021 6:10 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Friday, February 19, 2021 at 12:38:33 PM UTC-10, Stu Rawlings wrote:
>> On 2/19/2021 5:28 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Friday, February 19, 2021 at 11:42:21 AM UTC-10, Stu Rawlings wrote:
>>>> On 2/19/2021 4:30 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>> On Friday, February 19, 2021 at 10:22:50 AM UTC-10, wrote:
>>>>>> On Friday, February 19, 2021 at 1:09:29 PM UTC-6, wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...Health Insurance! :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John Kuthe, RN, BSN...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey wait a minute! You always said you didn't need health insurance because
>>>>>> you are a nurse and are your own insurance. Besides, you 'doctor' yourself up
>>>>>> with cannabis oil, Seroquel, and garlic; why would you need insurance?
>>>>> My daughter had a toothache and went to the dentist. It's going to cost us 3 grand. My dentist bill is $2,500. We're going to have to buy a new range because the old one died. Our plan was to get a newer used car this month but it looks like that's out the window. My daughter as been offered a job at the animal clinic where she's required to put some hours in for school. I'm hoping she takes the job and gets dental insurance. That would be nice.
>>>>>
>>>> Damn, that all sounds costly. Hey you know about hearing right?
>>>>
>>>> I bought three of those sonic pest-repllers' that plug right
>>>> into the wall and they all have three settings, low, medium
>>>> and high..It says not to run them on high if humans or pets are going
>>>> to be in the room, so just I had to plug one in to the wall in the
>>>> kitchen and run it on high, just to see how nasty it was.
>>>>
>>>> At any rate, I couldn't hear it very much at all, while my
>>>> wife was telling me to turn it off quick, it bothered her.
>>>>
>>>> My question is did I stand too close to the stage and listen
>>>> to my music too loud when I was a younger guy and roach my
>>>> hearing, or perhaps I'm just tone deaf to that particular
>>>> frequency?
>>>>
>>>> <i have my doubts about how effective the chasers will be
>>>> anyway..i put three of them in my barn today>
>>>
>>> As it goes, most people will lose about half of their hearing by the time they're in their 60's. Kids can hear up to 20,000 Hz and above. Someone my age might hear up to 11 kHz. You can get a free signal generator app for your phone and test your limits.
>>> Around 30% of people over 65 will have some hearing loss. Mostly it'll be in the higher frequencies. People with hearing loss will typically have most of the loss in frequencies starting about 2 kHz. People that have some loss due to their occupation, will probably show a steep drop in hearing starting at 1 kHz. Their hearing will be completely gone by 4 kHz. It's the large losses above 1000 Hz that makes speech comprehension difficult.
>>> Oddly enough, people in my generation have better hearing than their parents. That's what the research has shown. I can't say why that is.
>>> I doubt the ultrasonic chasers will work on bugs. OTOH, I'm thinking of an high frequency generator app that keeps cats away from me. I won't hear a thing but my wife would get ****ed off. It's always something.
>>>
>> Well thanks for a really well written response, I do appreciate it. As
>> far as I can tell I can hear well enough when it comes to conversation
>> and such, I'm not really concerned about being hard of hearing but the
>> fact that it was too aggravating for my wife to listen to when I
>> couldn't hardly notice it bothered me a bit.
>>
>> Now I recall my dad saying "you're gonna go deaf listening
>> to that shit you call music that loud"
>>
>> I do wear hearing protection now around machinery, like
>> closing the barn door after the horses are running away?
>
> I have a constant ringing in my ear so if you don't, consider yourself lucky. It's a good idea to wear hearing protection when you can. The thing about hearing loss is that it's so gradual that people don't notice it.
> The good news is that these days you can buy rechargeable Blu-tooth ear pieces that can help you hear. In the future, they'll be made specifically for hearing losses - they just probably won't be advertised as such. The cost will be under $200.
>
Gotcha, it beats holding a funnel up to my ear. lol
Thanks again.
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