u/reesypiecy12

Hi! My husband was just diagnosed with a pheochromocytoma of 4cm his endocrinologist is recommending surgery and we are fully on board. But I am terrified for him. The dr ordered more tests to determine if it’s genetic or not but made comments along the lines that he will probably have surgery before the tests results are back. What should we be doing in the meantime? They are starting him on meds. How does the recovery for this look? The dr also mentioned that he may want to have surgery done at a bigger facility such as the Mayo Clinic but he’s chosen to do it at our local hospital. We are by no means a small town hospital but we aren’t the largest in our state. Is this a bad decision?? Any advice would be super welcomed I’m freaking out and it seems like he’s gone all doom and gloom about everything.

Hi! My dad (50) is hard of hearing due to a car accident he had 30 years ago. Because of this he is deaf in one year and over the years his hearing has gotten worse in the other. We’ve tried to discuss hearing aids for the working ear and he is very hesitant.

His hesitation comes from a couple of things. First he has a stutter and back in 08 he got a device called the speech easy and hated it. He didn’t like the sound feed back and that when he got too sweaty it stopped working. He’s also concerned about cost.

So here’s my questions:

1. is a hearing aid anything like a speech easy?
2. can you be an extra sweaty person and wear hearing aids?
3. how do I talk to him about seriously getting hearing aids.

For context his hearing has gotten to the point where he can’t follow a conversation and will jump in after the fact and ask to be personally explained too what was said.