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Thread drift I know, but we have spoken above about tinnitus. I have just been watching a video on Youtube and the sound I have constantly at the back of my head, in addition the the whooshing of two tornadoes, is the whistle of a taxying Vickers Viscount.

Mike, I agree with you about tinnitus. I have a constant sound like an electrical transformer, plus whooshing like two tornadoes, one in each ear, and they are different and not synchronised. Similar to driving on the freeway with a window open just a tad. It is as persistant and annoying as cicadas in summer. I have the radio or TV on, not to listen to, but to distract and try to blanket out the sound.

So sorry to hear that Ian. My eyesight is such that I cannot read the 2cm high digits on my alarm clock without glasses. Sometimes, even with them, text on the screen is blurry. It has to be at just the right distance. I practice doing some things in total darkness so that if it got to that stage I could manage. I have to take two tablets early in the morning, at least an hour before breakfast I have things set up so the tablets are in an old tablet bottle, some water is in an old lemonade bottle beside the bed, so if I wake at, say 4.30, I can take the cap off the water bottle, wash down the tablets and put the cap back all in total darkness. Attaching and removing the night bag from my urostomy pouch in the dark is something else I have prcaticed. Fortunately the bits are designed so a blind person can do them. Kinda like braille. It is a scary prospect, I know how you feel. I hope I'm not making things difficult for you.