IdisuleOurOwn:



Good day, I just came across this thread that talks about hearing aid. Am impaired, I became deaf after a brief illness. I was told that it was the drugs I took that caused it.

Mine, is that I can't hear easily. I only hear sharp sound. E.g. When a nail is been pull out from blank, I can hear that sound.

What I do hear is constant noise inside my ear without outer source, its called '' Tinnutus''. I don't know if I can use hearing aid.

Hi, i just saw your post now. Read through the thread and see if you can get the info you need.

ACM10:
Chino has mental issues.

Check your mentions please

ACM10:


Thanks Abali, please can you share your digits with me. I have a patient in dire need of good hearing aid.

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I will be deleting it in 5 minutes.

ACM10:


How much did you buy those hearing devices? Did you do hearing test before purchasing the devices?

I have been using hearing aids for over 7 years now, before I bought my first hearing aids I did an auditory test at a specialized hospital in portharcourt costing me #7000 naira then.
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The ones am using now I bought two and my friend in the UK sent one as a gift/bonus. The two costs me about 20/25 thousand naira.

LyfeJennings:


Oga,
Are U my father?
My father is AA
I am AA
My sister is AA
My brother is AS
My last born is SC

Its a rare gene. Science doesnt have the answer to every question.

If your Father is truly AA and your mum is truly AS, how come your last born is SC?
I don't want to really argue, but ask others in the medical field.

gmemdee:
I think the problem is with the genotype tests. What I suspect (and this is conjecture) is that girl is not SS but SC and that the father is not AA but AC. My experience is that most Nigerian labs cannot correctly identify AC and SC genotypes. My reco will be for them to seek out a respected lab to redo the genotype tests for the Father and daughter.

this is exactly my thought. There's a thin line between AC and AA, and SC and SS.

LyfeJennings:
Lemme share a very true life story with U.
Over 15years ago, my younger brother was ill and we went to the hospital and discovered he is SC (NOT SS), a very rare genotype. My mum is AS & my dad is AA. I hace only one AS in my sibling and the DNA confirmed my dad as the father of my brother. Very very rare genotype combo which science sometimes dont explain.

Moral of the story: your friend should take a chill pill

Your dad couldn't have been AA, because then he couldn't produce SC. Your dad must have been AC and your mum AS.

ikare:
People,pls what antimalaria drug can a person with sickle cell take? I am thnking of getting Coartem

Which antimalaria medicine do you use before? Coartem is ok, but it's not actually just about the drug. But you must take your antimalaria drugs at least once every month.
Prevention is better.

Grand pa, weree.

who is rigging Which party?

Ebonyijay:
Hello Abali1. Congratulations on becoming a father. May God watch over you, your wife and the child and bless you with long life and every good thing to care for him in Jesus name.

I just saw a post you made in 2012 inquiring about adoption procedures in Abia State and I would like to know if your friend was successful in adopting a child from there. I am interested in adopting from Abia or Imo State too. Please let me know if you have any information that could help my quest. Thanks.

Thank you for the good wishes, and May it be well with you and yours.
The couple that needed the child didn't follow up after I got clues here.
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Actually, I went to the welfare office, along that Ikot Ekpene road and after making inquiries about the process of adoption I told the woman's niece who happens to be my friend then. But they didn't follow up on it. And again it costs money, just that I can't remember all the steps to take.

The S in the AS genotype is resistant to malaria attacks. Wish I can explain it more.

My opinion will be this; why spend a lot of time and money going through PND, when you can spend little of that time and money educating the public about the dangers of AS/AS marital union.
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In the other thread I was against the woman divorcing her husband simply because she was already married to him. If they were still at the courtship stage I would have adviced that she break up the relationship.
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Adults often make mistakes, and some think that it is okay to use a wrong to right a wrong..... She had the time during courtship to drag the man to any reputable laboratory of her choice and get him tested, but no. She was so much in love (or was it lust) that she believed his words.
Then, she instead of taking responsibilities for her oversight and giving her child the best she could, she goes ahead to get a divorce thinking it will right her mistake in not doing what she was supposed to do initially.
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PND, supports abortion pure and simple. And since you can't say which case would be severe or mild, then who are you to decide which fetus lives or is terminated.
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Memo to Dyt
I was banned in the other thread and I don't know why.

GodMode:


You are not a sickler...

Sicklers dislike their health limitations... why then can't they just commit suicide since they are already born sicklers

The end of the marriage is not the end of life...
Same way a true sickler knows that life goes on despite the health limitations...

Its brings more joy to take care of children you birth rather than adopt..

Believe whatever pleases you.

Fawklicant:


How so? Please enlighten me.

The probability is in every birth.
They could have 4 children and all will turn out SS or AS or AA or a mixture of all genotypes.

Fawklicant:


She can't gamble with a human life. Fact is she can only have one AA child, 2 AS children and 1 SS child in every four children. The order in which they come is random. So would you rather have her gamble and sire a child that might just know only pain and anguish in its lifetime? I know not all sicklers die, but a lot do and the problem is not even in the dying, it is in the living in misery and anguish. They can't do sports, smoke and do a lot of things that we take for granted. Not forgetting the self esteem issues resulting from years of all the pity-party from people.

With all the technological advancements, there is still no cure for it. This is a sickness that affects only black people, so who is gonna find the cure? Some sicklers eventually live successfully with it, but hey! What is the likelyhood?

Please the bolded is a wrong assertion.

GodMode:


They all take drugs once in a while or often....

It depends on how sickle cells affects the person... The cells vary from person to person that's why a sickler might fall ill more often than another...

Please tell me other genotypes don't take medications from time to time?
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My dear, I am not in support of anyone who is AS marrying another AS. No. The case in this thread is different.
The woman is already married to the man, and already has a baby who is AA. Why then seek for divorce?
If she needed more children why can't she adopt?
What if her son had been SS, will she equally seek for divorce? Knowing fully well that the burden may fall on only her.

GodMode:


I guess u like the fact that u're on drugs most of the time.

I guess u like the fact that any part of your body can pain u at anytime...

I guess u like the fact u can't do some physically stressful with no worries...

I guess u like the fact that u can fall into a coma at anytime...
e.t.c


You're not sickler... So stop saying s:hit

I guess you are new to Nairaland. Please go through my threads, I have got nothing to prove neither do I get to gain anything by lying.
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Moreover, don't be ignorant. It's not everyone who is SS that lives on drug.............. If you are still in doubt send me a PM, and I will clear your doubts.

Smartestelvis:
hope ur brain is not ss,coz i ve heard some ppl bein aa n deir brain somefin else......is it d vows dat's d objective of any marriage? perhaps its better 4 a mormal kid 2 grow up in a foster home dan an ss havin all d care in d world or if u were 2 be a sicklecell patient u would ve winded up in d nearest clinic nw instead of comin out here 2 type gilberish.......d woman made a gr8t move n dats wot counts,every oda fin u say is 4 d gods....

I choose to ignore your insults. But you can go through my threads to see for yourself, about the bolded.

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I notice that Nairaland has been populated by people who get a kick out of insulting others.

GodMode:



Been SS is worse than a death sentence...

You are simply ignorant, and by the way I am SS and I don't think am[center][/center] different from many people who consider themselves healthy.

Dyt:


U can't just be so sure


Not everyone wants adoption and sticking with just a child

Ok.
We can always agree to disagree.
And disagree to agree.

Dyt:


Are u saying she shld wait till she's got one SS?
Na wa ooo

OK what if the child happened to be SS and she still leaves? Bad decision?

I doubt that she would have left if the child were to be SS.
I am not saying she should have gotten an SS. NO.
Rather she should have taken into considerations that she already has a AA, and try to give that child a better life within the confines of marriage. If she needed more children there is always an option for adoption.
Moreover, she didn't consider her husband and ask the question......."if the tables were turned, how will he have acted?"
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Courtship is a period of learning. A testing ground before marriage proper.
Why didn't she try to be double sure about her husband's genotype before signing the dotted lines?
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Anyway some are even saying that marriage is over flogged.

Dyt:


Well we all are entitled to our opinions
To me, she clicked right

And who says the child will grow without fatherly love?

Abeg make I go chop before I start blabbing

It's actually funny how women tends to support a point of view when it favors them. But when the table is turned against them, they start screaming about how evil the men folk are.
I will still ask, if this woman's son were to be SS will she be quick to seek a divorce
If the hubby had left her because she bore a SS, will she also see it as being fair
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By the way, the world has never been fair...... It's all about self interest.

Dyt:


So she cld have stayed?
I bet u, in no time that love they share will go sour

I am saying, she should have stayed and given her son the best she could.
Divorcing the man on the grounds of AS/AS is just too flimsy.
Look at it this way, if her son were to be SS and her husband had left her (as some men do) won't the world be shouting how wicked men are?
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Moreover that child may grow up without the love and guide of a Father.

Dyt:


Am fine

What if she wants more kids?
She shldnt have divorced?
And sometimes inlaws can be really crazy, Yoruba's will say olomo kan never born ooo.

what if her first kid had been SS? Would she have divorced?

Having gone through some of the posts in this thread, I will say those arguing that the woman took the best decision are right in their own opinion.
But let's also take the seriousness of the marital vow into consideration. What the woman is doing now is what she should have done during courtship. Being afraid of having a SS child is not enough reason to end a marriage. Moreover she already has a child, who is AA.
My question, why not stop at that one and give him the best you can offer? What if that AA had been SS and the husband decided to end the marriage, how will she have taken it?
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My point is this,
1) She is already married, and her fears is not enough reason to seek for a divorce.
2) Her son will now grow up without the love of at least one parent. cos his home is already broken.
3) She could have chosen to give her child the best, and equally give hubby a choice in raising his own kid.
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4) Being SS is not a death sentence. And I will continue to advice against AS/AS couple getting married. But since they were already married, she should tried to make her marriage work............etc

Dyt:


No vex
Actually wanted u say smth
But u seem not to be in a good mood

Am actually very much in a good mood. How are you?

Olomubj:
please kindly go through that analysis very well please

If will please, help me analyze it again. Thank you.

Dyt:
Abali1

Why you dey call my name

adedejisy:
Don't even try it....I'm in that kind of challenge and as I'm right now I don have saving cos when she always had crisis and also my daughter too ...I spent close to 30,000 in every 2months...God is my trust and faith to get out of this challenge

Will you be kind enough to elaborate on the bolded?
If I understand you well, it means that you have the AS genotype and married a SS.

SisiNini:
This SS genotype thing will not be as terrible as people claim if it's properly managed... One of my boss' is an SS and u can hardly notice... He lives his life like any other person; he doesn't fall sick... He actually did blood transfusion...

Also, my best friend in secondary school is an SS... She's very playful; she is fatter and looks healthier than me... (Although her crisis is nothing to behold)... She got pregnant and gave birth @ age 16 (normal delivery) and she's still very strong now... She's now 26 years old... She does not joke with her drugs...

AA marrying SS is the only solution to eradicate the sickle-cell menace in our society...

Pls can anyone enlighten me on the SC genotype... Thanks...

Please, you need to understand that the FEAR of the unknown and ignorance makes people to stay clear of SCD person. I am a SS and I live a normal and productive life. God being kind, I have my own family now.