Stormy Weather

[salymap]

Thanks for that Paul. My Mac degen seems to stem from a bad fall I had eleven years ago. My nose was broken, my specs broke across the bridge and the glass just missed one eye, my cheek was bruised. Afterthat the symptoms appeared but haven't worsened and my optician says that was probably the cause.

I hope our useful chats on all sorts of subjects, INCLUDING MUSIC, will be allowed to continue, but I see there are stirrings of dissatisfaction from one one poster and the Management. I have posted on the Brandenburg Concertos today and realise that it is music that brings us here and binds us together. However the general posts are of great importance to the majority of people too. Perhaps it was too good to last.

[antongould]

Having read through the Platform 3 thread I think we may just survive! But if we don't I would just like to record the fact that today has been a beautiful day and that I shall miss you all more than I could say.

[Mahlerei]

Sal

No idea you'd had such a bad fall :( I know several people with macular degeneration; it does seem to vary in terms of severity, so I trust yours errs on the mild side.

anton
Yes, I think Platform 3 will survive :)

[sigolene euphemia]

Oh - and a Happy Birthday to you, Sigolene xx!

S-A

Mighty fine of you to remember !:o

Sigolene

xox

[salymap]

Morning all, personally, I should be very pleased to get back to listening to music. However, at the moment I have such bad tinnitus and deafness that I can't bear it, apart from solo piano and not much of that.

I have made lots of good friends, both on and off Platform 3 and I hope this upset, caused by one or two over zealous posters,will blow over.

[antongould]

Indeed - well said, and I hope the "yellow orb" stays with you a while and that you can soon moved back beyond the solo piano.

[sigolene euphemia]

Hi salymap !

My paternal grandmother had dry macular degeneration. She had a fall in her garden much like you, her glasses broke and tho it still makes me giggle, when Gigi phoned to tell me, I bicycled over and there was my 79 year old Grandmother with a skinned nose !

Yes, the United Kingdom has excellence in health care as well as the USA, but I only have experience with

Jules Stein Eye Institute
University of California Los Angeles - UCLA

http://www.jsei.org/

and here is the link to the research/study of

http://www.jsei.org/Research/research_Ctrials.asp?DisplayTrial.asp?TrialID=499

Safety and Effectiveness of Different Doses of Ranibizumab for Subfoveal Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Well, we have spits of rain and sun this day, but it is considerably warm 9c / 50f.

warm wishes,
sigolene

[salymap]

Thanks sigolene and a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY if I've got that right. Many more too. Weather not as nice as yesterday so far but lighter mornings are very welcome. Have a lovely day, salymap x

[sigolene euphemia]

salymap, Yes I became 55 on the 22nd. It is indeed special to be filled with vitality and, and .. .. my daughter gave me my favorite ice cream... rose.

again, I thank you,
sigolene

[greenilex]

Morning all. I seem to have missed some ructions while on the Eurostar.... Nothing important, surely?

Sat next to a Great Man, the cellist of the Maggini Quartet. He said with a cello train is cheaper than flight.

I was all of a flutter...

[marthe]

Sigolene: Happy Birthday, belatedly! Salymap: I hope all is well and sorry to hear of problems with the eyes and ears. Greenilex: you must have had an interesting train ride! One of my sisters would always have to book a seat on the plane for her cello. I'm not sure if she's ever taken "Mr. Chell" on a train.

The weather here is just awful. Heavy, cold rain. Damp and dreary.

[salymap]

Welcome to the R3 madhouse marthe. Eye test was okay, thanks, just can't see small print.

Sorry about your awful weather. Not as nice here as yesterday, which was definitely Springlike. Today back to murky dullness. All good wishes, saly

[Serial_Apologist]

Saly

So sorry to hear that you, too, suffer with tinnitus. As if you didn't already have enough to genuinely moan about! Mine consists of a continuous very high tone, just below bat frequencies, I would guess; it resembles the high pitched sound that used to be emitted by old valve-TVs with the sound turned down. Usually, with me, the tinnitus is at its worst if I wake up suddenly out of deep sleep. It can last all day; sometimes it is worse than at others. For instance, now that I've made myself aware of it, it is there right now, whereas at other times I seem subconsciously to be able to make it disappear into the background. My theory, having read up on the subject to some degree, is that it probably has something to do with encroaching deafness, which runs in my family: the "sound" may always be there in everybody, but it is usually buried under clear hearing - clear hearing obscures inner sounds that maybe are going on all the time, and to do with the nervous system. John Cage once spent some time in an anechoic chamber - a structure designed to exclude all sounds - and told the engineer afterwards that he could hear two sounds: one high, the other low. The engineer informed him that the upper sound was his nervious system operating; the lower his blood stream. Did you know that poor Faure suffered terribly with tinnitus in his later years - resulting from pitches coming to him sounding out-of-tune, and thereby making all listening to music intolerable!

Best wishes!

S-A

[salymap]

Thanks S_A. Very sorry you have it as you have more years to put up with it than me.Someone I know is researching Meniere's Disease for me as I had a fall some years ago and other symptoms such as dizziness fit.
Ihad a neighbour with MD, she was injured in the war and had terrible noises in her head. Mine is more like a dozen people filling baths. Today I have listened to a little chamber and piano music, a fullblown symphony by Tchaik, Mahler etc is impossible at the moment. Is it you who cycles?For goodness sake watchout if you do, sounds dangerous. Best wishes, saly

[marthe]

Saly and S-A, I'm so sorry that you are suffering from tinnitus. I have it when my ears are clogged with wax, a boring annoyance that's not permanent. One of my sisters does have Meniere's Disease and it can be quite disabling when she has spells of this. Year's ago, she was riding her bike in NYC and was hit by a careless driver. The trauma from this accident caused the Meniere's to appear some years later. E. suffers from dizzy spells as well as tinnitus when she has an attack of Meniere's. She has to be careful of driving long distance which can be a trial because she has to drive her daughter a fair distance for kayak race training.

The weather! We had some scary, very high winds blow through here mid-afternoon! One gust blew out a window pane in my home office as I was sitting at my desk. The window is next to my desk. Fortunately the window glass landed in the garden and not in my office! I've now got a lovely piece of cardboard filling in the open space. Time to re-caulk the windows!