Barbara.O'Keefe@f54.n135.z1.fidonet.org (Barbara O'Keefe) (02/04/90)
Index Number: 6580 [This is from the Silent Talk Conference] Now that I have this neat little echo on my BBS, I may as well throw in a message of my own! Thought I would share a story with you all. About seven years ago I was cooking in a very small kitchen, window was closed, only one door. My 14 year old son, at the time, thought it would be a wonderful idea to take one of those Capri-Sun containers and smash it together to make it "pop." Well it popped, and the sound reverberated off all the walls of the kitchen and into my right ear. I heard ringing for about an hour, then distortion. I had to go to an ENT who put me on Prednisone, to reduce the swelling. Bottom line of treatment: I did lose hearing in that ear, and to this day it is distortion I hear instead of the "real thing." Moral: don't "pop" things in small areas......dangerous to your hearing! **BARB** -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!135!54!Barbara.O'Keefe Internet: Barbara.O'Keefe@f54.n135.z1.fidonet.org