Now that I am getting older I really need to get this off my chest and finally say what I am thinking and feeling.

First off, I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am more of a middle of the road type of person. I am conservative in lots of ways, but I am also very liberal too. I very much believe and depend on Social Security, but it does not do much more that help me live. I also believe in Medicare even with all of its throw backs. I believe that we all need health and live insurance, but I do not believe that Obama Care is the answer to the issue. And when it comes to Income Tax, I believe we all should pay our share. But I also believe that the rich and the corporations do not pay their fair share. Most of the tax bill is falling on the Middle Class and the Middle Class is getting much smaller all the time. I do not understand how the USA is going to be able to keep going the way it is.

We need to stop giving our money away to other Countries and start taking care of the one here in this country. We also need to enforce our immigration laws and stop giving the country away to the illegals that is taking over this country. We have to close our borders and enforce the laws. We have to either make the illegals pay the fines and taxes that they owe this country, and stop them from sending all of the money they make back to their home countries. We also should not be paying for their schooling unless they are here legally, nor should we be paying for the medical, or housing etc. And we are doing that now.

Now let me say I am not against immigration I am just against everyone that is crossing or borders illegally. And while I am at it The USA is a country that English is the language the we speak and we should not be teaching anything but English in our schools except for electives. Yes I know we live in a world now that we should know other languages but we should not have to teach our kids anything but English until high school. I also do not believe we should have any road signs or any of the official documentation in any other language but English.

I also want to say something else. This is going to be hard for me to explain correctly. I hate what has happened to this world due to race issues. We as humans should see all others as equals. We should not be labeling anyone due to there color or race. We were all created equal and we should all be treated as equals, but to do that we have to act as equals.

I also have to say this it hurts and makes me so very angry how our Police are being treated. I know that they as a whole do the best that they can to protect everyone. I hate the way that they are being treated and that treatment is be multiplied by our very liberal press. They do not care about anything but the numbers and the more they can keep things stirred up the more that they get the numbers.

Now on to our so called House of Representatives and Senators. They are a joke, they are elected to represent us but all they do is pad their own bank accounts. They are so worried about the big money they can get from special interest that the country means nothing to them. I believe we should outlaw special interest money, and lobbyist. I also believe that we should get away from the party system that we have now it is doing nothing but sending this country to Hell.

And for my last and most important thinking, we have to put God and prayer back into or schools and lives. This country has been going down hill ever since we gave into a few and removed God for our schools and our Government and lives. I am not saying we should push any one belief, we should respect others beliefs. And we should expect others to respect our beliefs. I do not tell anyone how or what they should believe, and I expect them to do the same for me. If they do not then I will continue to believe the way I do and I will pray and praise my God in front of them anyway, as I would expect them to do the same. But I will not except or yield to anyone that tells me I cannot pray in public because it is against their beliefs.

God Bless y-all  

Our Christmas Tree

I love it

My hearing aid history

I have been wearing aids since May of 2005. My first aids were Sonic Innovations ITE, they were poorly fit. I applied to the VA for a Service related Hearing loss and received my Siemens ITE aids in Nov of 2006 they worked out to be fairly good. and March 2010 I had another VA appointment and was given new aids; Oticon Dual WX with the streamer; I have the Plus domes. OK for an update I received my new aids this October and the are Oticon Alta Pro custom fit ITC. The VA is still taking care of my aids and hearing. I am very much more active and love to ride my bicycle, walk, hike, an work in the yard. The Duals had issues with me sweating and have stopped working several times. Both have been repaired at least twice, also my hearing has gotten worse and I am now at a severe hearing loss in my right ear with only 20% voice recognition left in the right ear, my left ear is moderately severe. My Alta Pros are proving to be really great, I am hearing much better, even enjoying music and the TV much more than ever before. I am here to help you if I can.

My Experience with Hearing Aids.

My hearing aid experience begins with me getting and hearing test back early in 2005 and being told that I really needed hearing aids. I really had no idea what to expect or even what I needed. I was having issues understanding what people was telling me, and at times not even hearing people talk to me.
But to go a lot farther back in time when I was mustering out of the Navy back in very early 1977, I was given a hearing test and was told that I had a hearing loss, but they did not say anything to me about needing aids or that I should have gone as soon as possible to the VA and get into the VA system. I pretty much just for got about it. Then again in about 1992 I was working on a government job and was given a hearing test and again was told I had a hearing loss, but again was not really told I needed help with hearing or that I should seek further help.
Then in 1999 I had a job as phone support specialist and was noticing myself shouting into the phones when I had some one on the other end that was in a very noise server data center, and I was also being asked by others that worked with me to hold it down. But still I was not willing to go and seek the help that I needed. So I just kept putting it off.
Then fast forward to 2005. I start by searching the Internet for information about hearing aids. And I ended up with an audiologist that was recommended by a hearing aid company that their aids sound good to me. And to be Honest that was a big mistake, but at least I managed to get started on my journey.
It has been my experience that it takes your brain about 6 weeks to 3 months to get use to hearing aids. The aids will be letting you hear so many different sounds that you have not been able to hear or maybe the sounds are just so much louder that they seem to be new. Believe me brain hearing is a true statement and your brain has to get use to the new/old sounds that it has forgotten about. I can only imagine what it is like for someone that is deaf that gets implants and are then able to hear. To give you just one example, upon leaving the audiologist after getting my first aids, I got into my car and was hearing something that I did not know what it was, it turned out to be the turn signal, I never knew that they made any sound. I could goon and on but I believe you can figure it out from there. Also it was great to be out in nature again and hear the bees, and the birds etc.
You will need to be very patient when you get your first set of aids, not only with it take time to get them adjusted correctly but you will have to adjust also to the new sounds of your environment. 

Is it just me talking

We all have our likes and dislikes, but that does not mean we are always right. What is right for me does not mean it is right for anyone else. It is alright to voice our likes and dislikes but never right to force them on anyone else.

VA appointment this morning

Up early this morning, I had a VA hearing appointment. I had so minor adjustments made to my hearing aids. I talked to my audiologist about some of the issues I have with hearing my wife while I am in the car and or driving. She is ordering me a bluetooth mic that my wife can wear on that will let me hear her better. My wife if my navigator while I drive and also helps me at times understand what the cars GPS is trying to tell us.
I noticed lots if changes at the clinic, the VA really seems to be trying to make improvements. And starting in January I will be able to just walk in for minor adjustments that I have been having to wait as much as 2 months to have done. I know that the wait my be some time before I will be seen but it is much better than before.
And today I found out that my audiologist wears aids too. I always knew that she talked as if she had hearing problems but today we got to talking about different aids and she showed me what she wears. I do not believe I ever could wear an aid that was completely hidden in my ear canal, first off my hearing is to bad for the power that the real small aids can put out. second I do not believe I could handle something that small any more.

I am so fed up

I am so fed up with the US news media and even the Federal Government. The News media and the Government never had very much common sense and now they have none. Between the Government and the News media steering up so much trouble and problems that it is getting to be criminal. It is like the Federal Attorney General and the President are trying to start a revolution are even a take over of the Government.