RE: still kicking

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I'm speechless, man. (hugs) I hope things somehow keep improving, and that you can take that trip soon.You keep rockin' on too and gettin' down with your good self. = M-F.> To: Soundsensitivity > Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:55:52 +0000> Subject: still kicking> > hello fellow 4s sufferers, it's been awhile! Just stopped in for a quick update if anyone cares to read up.> > Instead of going on a 2200 kilometer kayak trip, my family doctor insisted I see him once a week all summer...but hasn't done ANYTHING to help me at all, not one thing. I go to appointments and he talks to me for a minute, promising more tests but nothing ever comes of it. I believe he just wanted to keep me from the (yeah, sort of dangerous) trip I'm (still) planning.> > For those of you still wishing to be deaf: be careful what you wish for! I suffer from conductive hearing loss in my right ear, but the nerve is still alive and picks up all the soft sounds I hate so much, but only the internal kind. I have gone clinically insane from the 'water torture', but with no medical advocate or family (and a whopping brain injury) nobody wants to listen to me anymore.> > A couple of weeks ago I got to the end of my chain, and was arrested on 5 different charges that are very serious. I was sent to prison, but had to be confined to solitary due to my lack of impulse control (brain injury). My colourful tattoo's made me a target for the other inmates, and I got into several fights even being in solitary (but not hurt).> > After having no medical treatment for 15 months after being hit by a freight train, going to jail was just the thing to get the ball rolling. The judge was appalled at the treatment I had received (or no treatment rather), and not only have all the charges against me been dropped, but I now have a better doctor who can listen, a mental health worker, a community worker to talk to disability for me, a bail officer who can refer me to any resource I need, and a team of ear specialists who are going to first clean out my destroyed middle ear bits, then go ahead with the BAHA conductive bone implant surgery.> > I'm also receiving a large lump of $$$ for doing research on brain injury for Insurance companies, now that I have a judge saying "he's hurt, not crazy".> > This coming monday I'm moving into my own apartment, the first one since I lost everything two years ago from illness. that will be a nice break for me since I'm tired of the bed-bug sores I've gotten while living at a homeless men's shelter here in Toronto (court order-I'm officially "no fixed address".> > I testified on my own behalf in court (bail hearing), and talked about 4S and the side effects, to which the judge replied "wow, with your current injuries that must be hell for you". Then she told me that she would dismiss all the charges against me under something called "diversion", referring to a mental-health clause.> > Still trying to get the word out,> kip> > PS-rock on