Well I'm eating Tiger Cat humble pie for supper and moaning. My hearing loss is somewhat better but I suffer from that area where the speech runs together and I don't understand it. My wife for example has to be in front of me about 2 feet and talking at me. The same for all women really.

The good news is that the top 15 or so notes on the 88 key piano sounded the same after the last treatment. Now just the top 2 sound the same. I have a very large amount of thick fluid in my ears and they are going to try the tubes to see if I can lose some and hear better. The biggest potential problem is that more side effects keep showing up. The cisplatin may or may not have reduced the 'hairs' as I was told and this can be a long term problem.

If I could only sing again. In fact talk any amount. The first hour in the morning I have to cough all time, and I wake up 4 to 10 times at night with no moisture in my mouth. Just something else to moan about. The good news is no sign of any bad cells in my neck as of last week.

I wonder Ian if you should look at some hardware. I know it's a budget item, but maybe you need to do what the fire department did when wanting a micro wave for a new fire station, they called it a micro wave radio device for $600.00. After it showed up there was screaming. Maybe you can get the government to fund the thing with some creativity. Check out the VoiceLive 2 by TC Helicon. I have the VoiceLive. I'm hopeful it will get some use yet.

They do have a number of smaller new products, check them all out for that matter.

Argooooooooooooooooos (jeez)

John Conley
Musica est vita