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tigerincanada said:
John William Harrison was my grandfather. He was a furniture maker who lved on Preston Road. I have no idea who Peter Shanks is or was. Until I found this certificate last night, I had never heard of him which shows how important god parents are in a person's life. Upon reflection, Millicent may have been my grandfather's second wife but I knew her as Nana and she died when I was very young. Peter may have been her son from her first marriage but that's just a guess.
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Probably just coincidence then but I was an apprentice back in 1979-1982 and worked with two blokes called John Harrison and Peter Shanks.
 
She's 67 years old. <yikes>


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BrisbaneTiger said:
I used to have my ears sucked out at Hull Royal every 6 months or so, until we emigrated. That was a follow on from having a mastoidectomy about 20 years ago now. This is where they removed a lot of the bone inside my right ear due to an abscess I think it was that was slowly eating the bone away, until I had it sorted. So like a few on here am partially deaf in one ear but can hear some tones but not too much. If someone is on that side talking I don’t always hear them. I also suffer from the dreaded wax build up in my ears, which would often become infected, hence the reason for getting them sucked out a couple of times a year. When my ears were infected I had very minimal hearing for what could be up to two weeks depending on how long it took to clear. Not many people knew how much I suffered with lack of hearing as I didn’t really say much, and often would make up a pathetic excuse as to why I hadn’t heard.
They did think a lot of the problems were down to wearing ear plugs at work, which prevented my lugs being able to breathe properly, and it probably didn’t help that I would be constantly taking the plugs in and out all day with going into different work areas. I did get some Moulded ear plugs made up on one visit to HRI. They stuck blue tack in each lug to get the templates then had them made up.
I probably don’t suffer from infected ears as much now, maybe due to not needing to wear ear plugs now, though one thing that can still give me ear infections is after swimming. The ENT bloke here said dont keep buying the expensive aqua ear drops but to make my own, by mixing three parts meths to one part white vinegar, as this is the same as what they put in the post swimming ear drops. That seems to work ok for me.
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I had that exact same problem and a operation at HRI nearly 40 years ago.
I used to hate the visits every 6 months to have them sucked out because it left me incredibly dizzy and feeling nauseous.
Over the years i several infections requiring treatment. I took the decision to stop swimming and very rarely get them now.
It also left me virtually half deaf and like others have said i have suffered from people thinking i was ignorant because i have not heard them.
 
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