Ressurection....

[wornoutkeyboard]

Hello there to all that remember me *waves* and I guess everyone else can just piss off.

Sorry I haven't been around for the last year or so. I have been dead. Well...perhaps not litterally, but I always was one for hyperbole. Besides...hyperbole is fun to type.

Okay...now here is the pathetic reason for abandoning all of you....

Just when I thought that life couldn't get any better... it did! I won the lottery! YAYAYAY!

Okay...not really.... I gor meniere's disease and have spent the last year slowly going deaf...well that is when I'm not struck by horrendous vertigo.

If you have any questions you can go to: Fun Place

*Next post*

 

[wornoutkeyboard]

Q & A

And here is a quick answer to all of your questions (since I have lost my hearing I have developed the ability to read minds):
Q. Can I catch it?
A. Only by reading my messages on the computer
Q. Is there a cure?
A. No.
Q. Are you really sure there is no cure?
A. That's what the guy in the white coat at Johns Hopkins told me.
Q. Is there any treatment?
A. If you call completely changing my life to work around debilitating deafness and vertigo....then yes.... that is treatment.
Q. Are you sure there is no cure?
A. Unless everyone is lying to me in some great big scheme meant to toy with my mind.
Q. What will eventually happen to you?
A. I will go entirely deaf with the exception of the loud ringing I hear in my ears 24/7 and I will develop oscillopesia (complete loss of balance).
Q. When will this happen?
A. No one knows. Tomorrow is booked but perhaps I can pencil it in for next Thrusday.
Q. So no one knows when it will happen?
A. Could be tomorrow....could be 20 years. Already lost about 70% of my hearing so I'm pretty much deaf anyhow. Just hopin it will take a while before I loose my balance. At least until I can hire some cute guys wearing nothing but their manhood to carry me around all day.
Q. Are you sure there is no cure?
A. If I was a 90 year old white man needing an erection there would be.
Q. Wow that sucks.
A. I know.
Q. I'm sorry.
A. Not as sorry as I am.



So...now that I got that out of the way.... it's nice to be back to writing. Been back at it for about a month. Was a little hard to concentrate over the ringing in my ears for a while but now I have learned to consider it my own new age music. Did I mention that I hate new age music.

Nice to be back home....

~WOK

 

[cloudy]

Welcome back!

I'm new to you, but have heard your name mentioned with nostalgia several times.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Sympathies on the condition. One more thing to remember not to take for granted.

Welcome back.

And I like the sig. One of my favorite aphorisms.

Shanglan

 

[Colleen Thomas]

*HUGS*

Welcome back Wok!

Sorry about your condition, but it's good to have you back

 

[Guest]

Welcome back.

 

[Guest]

And the bright side is; now you have a reason to sit at the computer and write great stories then come here and tell us all about them.

 

[minsue]

Welcome back!

 

[wornoutkeyboard]

I'm new to you, but have heard your name mentioned with nostalgia several times.

Wow... I love it when people talk about me after I leave. Even if it is to wonder why they had to repeat everything to me about 400 times before I heard them.

You know how sometimes people of lowered intelligence can get away with things they know they aren't supposed to do?

I'm hoping that works for me.

Oh honey... I didn't mean to lick that guy's chest like an all day sucker....I'm deaf ya know.

~WOK

 

[neonlyte]

WOK

Wonderful to see you post. Terrible news, just hope you find ways to cope.

The question on everyones lips:
What happened to the squirrel?

neonlyte - formally wills (don't ask)

 

[wornoutkeyboard]

WILLS!

My love- my darling!

*gives wills a really inappropriate greeting*

Wow... I have missed you guys here at the AH!


Homer the squirrel.... he went home with a wonderful lady from the wild animal shelter and was reintroduced to the land of the free three months later. He has a rabies control microchip in him and she promises she will call me if he turns up on a health department research (they randomly trap and release testing for rabies).

Currently we have 2 new kitties that adopted us (mother and son--- quite inscestuous really). Mom is Olivia and son is Baxter. My reigning cat of the house- Purrcival- is none too pleased but that doesn't phase mom and baby. They found regular food and they aren't about to be scared away by a portly homosexual feline.

Gosh.... I really miss all of you sick f*ks.

~WOK

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Hey WOK! Good to see you again!

Sorry about Meniere's. Does this mean WE HAVE TO TYPE IN CAPS WHEN WE WRITE TO YOU?

---DR.m.

 

[wornoutkeyboard]

Does this mean WE HAVE TO TYPE IN CAPS WHEN WE WRITE TO YOU?

What? What did you say?

I need to get one of those ear horns.

~WOK LITE (now with 70% less hearing!)

 

[Guest]

Wok! I am so happy to see you, despite your news. Yes, you've been missed and periodically we have posts on the squirrel. Gosh, I don't know what to say except I'm really glad you've returned. Please post more, and anything.

with affection, Perdita

 

[neonlyte]

Thanks for embrace. Most welcome.

Truly lovely to see you back in the fold, and Homer - well he had good carers, pleased that worked out!

What is meniere's, how does it manifest itself, apart from the deafness or is that the only symptom.

Informations always useful at my age, your never sure if you've stopped listening or really can't hear them.

 

[Guest]

Oh honey... I didn't mean to lick that guy's chest like an all day sucker....I'm deaf ya know.

Can't help but give you another welcome. Now I remember why I've missed you (among better reasons). Yea! It's really a joy to hear from you.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

Ok, I read the info from your link. What treatments have you had, or are considering. Seriously, I'd like to know.

Perdita

 

[wornoutkeyboard]

Hey there lovely lady Ditia!

Well.... I am one of the lucky few who have Meniere's bilaterally (only about 20% of people have it in both ears). But you know what I always say.....anything worth doing is worth doing right!

No sir! Nothing half-assed for me.

So, surgery isn't a viable option. Any of the most successful surgeries (chemical labyrinthectomy, etc) are not an option for bilaterals such as myself. They have talked a bit about doing a shunt surgery (to drain the endolymph) but I did some of my own homework and it isn't a terribly successful prcedure.

In the mean time I have barfed my way down from 167lbs to a svelt 128 lbs and it looks like I might be gaining some control over my symptoms because I have managed to go a whole two months without losing weight! YAY me! If your gonna have a horrid disease- at least it makes ya skinny!

I am on an low sodium diet (below 800mg a day- which means I eat two apples) and I am playing the diuretic merry go round. The last two I was on made me feel like I was living under water (and I always feel drunk now-a-days)...ever go scuba diving while drunk?

On the up side I have a life-long perscription for valium (used to treat the vertigo). Yeah baby....nothing like better living thru chemistry.

I the only anti-enemic (anti-barf pills) I can tolerate is Zofran but with my insurance it is still $8 a pill. So I barf a lot.

In the beginning I just laid on the couch for about 5 months asking Captain Stubing if he could please take me off the lido deck.

Then things lightened up a bit and now between diet and valium (which keeps me from caring if I'm sick) I'm semi-functional.

Most recently I went thru a bad bit with a spinal tap that went horribly wrong. (Oh yeah...simple procedure until you start hemorraging spinal fluid 2 days later and have to go in for surgery to close you back up.)

And on the up side.... the doctor said my insurance will cover my rehab if I decide to evre go off of the valium (yeah....like anyone would do that!)

I think that is the whole kit and caboodle for ya. (what the hell is a caboodle....nm....I don't want to know).

~WOK XTRA LITE (Also sporting 70% less ass surface space)

Hey...who is that hot deaf chick?

 

[Guest]

Wok, thanks for the info and larfs. You ought to write for some online support group. I don't know that I'd have your sicko sense of humour if I got some weirdo disease. I hate barfing but you do make the weight loss appealing . Maybe you could get a prescription for marijuana, can't hurt to try. Gosh if only Beethoven had had someone like you about the flat. (Do excuse me if I go to far.)

I'm glad you have a Mr. Wok (hope you are too).

ta, Perdita

 

[NoJo]

Hi, WOK, we've never met. I've read a couple of your posts today. Let's fuck.

 

[English Lady]

Hiya WOK -I know the name but I don't think I ever got to know you well. Anyhow, hope that'll change now, I love your dry humour

 

[Guest]

Hiyas WOK!
Glad to see you back. Love the humor...its the way i would want to handle any illness. Always felt closer to my patients who dealt with their illness that way.
*hugs*
i look forward to reading your schtuff.
v~

 

[Guest]

WOK! It is so good to see you. You have been greatly missed, by many, you squirrel woman.

Jeez, constant ringing in your ears, eh? That's a fucker. Crap news.

Bloody great to see your sense of humour hasn't changed one bit.

Lou

 

[rgraham666]

Hello WOK. Pleased to meet you.

If any place can take your mind off your troubles, this is the one.

Stay for a bit. I like your sense of humour.

 

[wornoutkeyboard]

Ahhhh....I didn't know terrifying illness could bring me so much fame and glory or I would have done this years ago.


Gauche- The flirtatious remarks were 100% pure. Okay....99% pure 1% evil devious nonsense. Who could do without the evil devious nonsense? I still remember the pic of you (I think it used to be your AV) often and while alone.


~WOK

PS~ Hello to all the people I don't know. And if one of you live close by... I have this terrible itch on my back that needs to be scratched. A little lower. To the left. Yeaaaaah.


Okay...now my back really does itch. Gotta love the power of the old brain.