Originally posted by RICHARD
i understand your point!
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sorry to hear about your surgery, but glad you are able to enjoy life because of it.

it never ceases to amaze me all of the advance we have made in
the medical field in the time i worked in it!
I had an acoustic neuroma removed. (It was benign, as they almost always are.) I enjoyed life before, and afterwards, too. They thought they'd be able to save what hearing I had left on that side, but alas, no such luck. It was almost ten years ago, so I no longer have to get follow-up MRI's, but I also don't get to say, "Well, I'm off to have my head examined" or get to see my brain in slices, either!

Everyone who reads this should value their "directional hearing" ability. You'll all never know how weird it is to hear a sound and have no idea where it's coming from. If something beeps or makes an "alarm sound," I just hope it has a flashing light to match!