hardrollin 2008 rapping thred

“Losing 70% of my hearing through blast injury following an accident in the army 50 years ago, I was dealt another isolating blow several years later when I was made redundant. By then I was almost 95% deaf and the realisation that I was no good to anyone triggered a nervous breakdown.

One day, while I was seeing a hearing therapist, quite by chance my wife, Sue, came across a leaflet for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and realised that she may have stumbled across the antidote to my depression.

Not long afterwards Ted came into our lives. Ted was my salvation, taking me out of my easy chair in which I sat for hours at a time, and back into a world of laughter and friendships. When he arrived he restored my confidence. He helped me so much. I had to take him for walks and on those walks I met people and had to chat. It was very difficult but I had to do it.

People don’t realise that deaf people are 60% more likely to have a breakdown than people with hearing. Deafness makes you invisible to other people and being deaf creates its own isolation. Simple things such as being woken at night by noises, someone knocking on the door or a smoke alarm going off, could go completely unnoticed, bringing possibly fatal consequences.

I know only too well how much I owe to Ted. He helped me out of an abyss and got me back to living again. He kept me secure and healthy with his 10 mile a day walks and he gave me back my confidence to go out and meet people. He transformed me from a severely depressed man with little to live for into a cheerful and happy person.

I was very lucky to be matched with another beautiful Buhund, Isa, when Ted reached the time for retirement. But he stayed with us while Isa took over the reins as my hearing dog.

We all miss Ted so much – Isa too misses her friend and companion. He was such a wonderful ambassador for his breed and for the Charity that trained him.

We’d like to thank:
Jackie Cobb for finding Ted; Ann and Adrian Mole for donating him; Fiona Beale and her Buhunds for raising money to sponsor him; Sandra Stevenson his trainer and John Dickson of Pennards Veterinary Group for looking after him.

A Four-legged Friend

When God had made the earth and the sky,
The flowers and all the trees,
He then made all the animals,
The birds and all the bees.
And when his work was finished,
Not one was quite the same.
He said “I’ll walk this earth of mine
And give each one a name”.
And so he travelled land and sea,
And everywhere he went,
A little creature followed him
Until his strength was spent.
When all was named upon the earth
And on the sea and sky,
The little creature said “Dear Lord, there is not one left for me.”
The Father softly smiled and said
“I have left you till the end,
I have turned my own name back to front
And called you DOG my friend.”

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

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― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 January 2008 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

revive?

― Beatrix Kiddo, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:12 (seventeen years ago)

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― J0rdan S., Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

dirty urine - the piss test edition

― sleep, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:37 (seventeen years ago)

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― sleep, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

lovechild alert: tash from alkaholiks + xhibit = cool nuts

― tremendoid, Saturday, 23 February 2008 11:34 (seventeen years ago)

i mean what is the deaal with that

― tremendoid, Saturday, 23 February 2008 11:34 (seventeen years ago)

it's probably old now but the killa kyleon/slim thug tape is really good. i like nearly everything i've ever keard kk do.

― tremendoid, Saturday, 23 February 2008 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

I saw Cool Nuts open for Ghostface once. His hypeman was a better rapper than him.

― The Reverend, Sunday, 24 February 2008 02:39 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

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― Teddy Riley (The Reverend), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 06:10 (seventeen years ago)

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― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 06:12 (seventeen years ago)

btw there is a proto-zs .gif in here

― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 06:12 (seventeen years ago)

what is zs.gif?

― Teddy Riley (The Reverend), Tuesday, 21 October 2008 07:28 (seventeen years ago)

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