Hi Deb! LTNS! How's that little Sadie of yours? So the doc told me that I could get the baha and it would just have to be placed away from the titanium mesh. Still don't want the rod sticking out of my head, it's just not for me. With my luck, I'd get zapped by lightning.... then again, maybe that's not a bad idea! Anywho, can't afford the trans ear and will have to just go on pretending to hear things and/or pissing people off because I keep asking them to repeat themselves. God forbid anybody go out of their way for me! But thanks for all the suggestions and comments. I've been away from the group for awhile, trying to see if my problems would go away too, but no such luck! Maybe I just have a bad outlook, but I don't see me every having a full recovery to my old self/life which was suggested to me by several doctors. Now the name they have given me for it is fibromyalgia. I think they just haven't been able to figure out anything else or are afraid to blame it on something I might sue someone over. BTW, I'm not that kind of person, or I would be able to afford the aid 10X over! TTFN