BAT! ~ and ringing (not ringling) ears ~

[ragtopW]

my ears ring..

No kidding, mine too! No one seems to know why though...

Mine ring. From having both eardrums busted on my 21st birthday. They say there's nothing to be done. Sometimes, I would just like to experience silence for 10 minutes. ~Sigh~

I like bats. Really, I do. Tons of them in Austin. Under the Congress Avenue bridge.

somehow Loud music can turn mine down also a hot shower..

[SchoolGirlHeart]

the only thing I'd worry about with bats is that they could be rabid....

[SchoolGirlHeart]

my ears ring..

No kidding, mine too! No one seems to know why though...

Mine ring. From having both eardrums busted on my 21st birthday. They say there's nothing to be done. Sometimes, I would just like to experience silence for 10 minutes. ~Sigh~

Mine ring, too. Since I was a kid. I don't remember what complete silence sounds like....

[carolinagirl]

the only thing I'd worry about with bats is that they could be rabid....

I know.


Want to read my horror story from three years ago?

Here goes...
Hubby is reading bedtime book to son. Son says there's something on my foot. Son screams. Hubby gets bat out from under covers. Bat dies.

Panicked parents take son next day to ER at 8 a.m. for scratches on ankle.
Animal control picks up dead bat, but fails to drive it one hour to testing center until Mom screams at them at 2 p.m.
Bad thunderstorm delays speeding bat-mobile.

Testing center says, "Sorry, we're closed until Monday morning."

Distraught parents decide to start rabies shots.
On Monday, testing center says, "bat not rabid."

Parents discontinue shots. Two weeks later son gets fever of 104 that lasts a week. Doctors run myriad of tests and can't figure what it is. (Rabies takes two weeks to incubate. Once you get it, it's fatal 99% of the time.)

Mom prays heart out, cries. Doctors determine it's bacterial infection that comes from soil. WHEW!

Call exterminator. Fumigate house. Bats that don't die escape through walls into den and circle the 12 foot ceilings while Mom swings towels, tennis rackets, fishing net, etc. (Dad holds door. ) No bats for three years!

This is why I don't like bats any more. Calling wildlife wrangler ASAP!

[SchoolGirlHeart]

the only thing I'd worry about with bats is that they could be rabid....

I know.


Want to read my horror story from three years ago?

Here goes...
Hubby is reading bedtime book to son. Son says there's something on my foot. Son screams. Hubby gets bat out from under covers. Bat dies.

Panicked parents take son next day to ER at 8 a.m. for scratches on ankle.
Animal control picks up dead bat, but fails to drive it one hour to testing center until Mom screams at them at 2 p.m.
Bad thunderstorm delays speeding bat-mobile.

Testing center says, "Sorry, we're closed until Monday morning."

Distraught parents decide to start rabies shots.
On Monday, testing center says, "bat not rabid."

Parents discontinue shots. Two weeks later son gets fever of 104 that lasts a week. Doctors run myriad of tests and can't figure what it is. (Rabies takes two weeks to incubate. Once you get it, it's fatal 99% of the time.)

Mom prays heart out, cries. Doctors determine it's bacterial infection that comes from soil. WHEW!

Call exterminator. Fumigate house. Bats that don't die escape through walls into den and circle the 12 foot ceilings while Mom swings towels, tennis rackets, fishing net, etc. (Dad holds door. ) No bats for three years!

This is why I don't like bats any more. Calling wildlife wrangler ASAP!

YIKES!!!

I can live with mice, etc.... At the moment, my kids (including the big one.... ) are hand-feeding squirrels.... IN MY DEN.....

but bats? no.... I love that they eat bugs, but am justifiably afraid of rabies.....

[carolinagirl]

YIKES!!!

I can live with mice, etc.... At the moment, my kids (including the big one.... ) are hand-feeding squirrels.... IN MY DEN.....

but bats? no.... I love that they eat bugs, but am justifiably afraid of rabies.....

Yes, we do not have a mosquito problem in our neighborhood. That part is good. But bats are evil little critters!!!!

Now, squirrels, I love. IN YOUR DEN?!? That's pretty cool!

[East Texas Parrothead]

my ears ring..

No kidding, mine too! No one seems to know why though...

Mine ring. From having both eardrums busted on my 21st birthday. They say there's nothing to be done. Sometimes, I would just like to experience silence for 10 minutes. ~Sigh~

Mine ring, too. Since I was a kid. I don't remember what complete silence sounds like....

This is *so* weird, SGH. We've traveled 1/2 way around the world together and *never* discussed this.

I was celebrating my February birthday . . . out in the country. Took in some target practice .... and the EEN&T specialists have all said the atmospheric pressure must have been exactly right (or wrong in my case) so that the concussion of the pistol (no, I didn't have mufflers on my ears) broke both eardrums. Blood was everywhere. It was gross and I couldn't hear much for weeks.

Now, I have great hearing, but a C above High C ringing in both ears. It gets worse when I'm tired. Like now.

[SchoolGirlHeart]

It gets worse when I'm tired. Like now.

Yep.

Not sure what key mine sings in, but it's a high freq.....

[Cubbie Bear]

my ears ring..

No kidding, mine too! No one seems to know why though...

me too. I flew from San Juan to Chicago with a head cold and they have been this way ever since. Been to two different doc's and they haven't done a damb thing

[LIPH]

When I lived in DC, I got so used to Ambulence sirens that I had to do a double take when I didn't hear them.

Same here, you hear sirens so often it becomes white noise.