Great news. the reason I haven't been on here for a year now, is well..... I forgot...I'm to busy living a normal life again. I had my last clean M.R.I. in Nov of "09" Next one scheduled for Jan 2011. It feels so good to be so called "normal" again, after all I went through. To be honest, the farther away my thoughts of all this is, the better. On with life I say! so, I'm sorry if I don't come on here much anymore, I just feel like it's time to move on. Nothing new I can really say. Yes, I cannot hear out of my left ear, so what. I have excellent hearing in my right ear. And I still, after all this time have some hand pain/nerve damage. I live with it. No worse than the arthritis I'll probably get in a few years anyway! As time passes I remember less and less of what happened. My thoughts are now filled with the projects I'm working on, as well as my frequent travels. So, if anyone is new to this A.N. stuff, just read my early posts. You'll see how far I came, and you will to! Thanks Zeek.