"Bruce" wrote in message ...

On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 09:57:48 -0000, "Ophelia" >
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>"dsi1" wrote in message
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>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.
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>> Now I recall my dad saying "you're gonna go deaf listening
>> to that shit you call music that loud"
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>> I do wear hearing protection now around machinery, like
>> closing the barn door after the horses are running away?
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>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.
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>D. has hearing aids that just don't work and they cost £4.000.00!
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>Where do we find these Blu-tooth aids??

You can get Aids from Bluetooth?? And WHY would you want to find it?

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