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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Alicia in Miami. Hi, Alicia. You\u2019re next. It\u2019s great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for having me on your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, the first time I heard your program, I think it was around March the 20-something in 2001. I was home. I just had arrived from Madrid. I married in Madrid with an American citizen and we decided to move to New York. You were talking about how you were losing your hearing, and you actually moved me to tears because I\u2019m a journalist and I was thinking, “What is he gonna do? If he can\u2019t hear, how is he gonna continue with his show?”<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: I was doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s the thing, you know, you continued to do the same thing day in and day out, and I really got addicted. When I went back to Spain I would try to listen to it through the Internet. And then fast forward to spring of 2009, I was a correspondent for a newspaper, I was doing translation, and I write, and I was having trouble with my carpal tunnel syndrome. So I have surgery. It went really bad, really wrong. It was medical negligence and I lost my fingers, all five fingers of my left hand.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You lost all five fingers on your left hand?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you are a writer?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Lucky for me they just cut the fingers, not the rest of the hand, because in the beginning they said it was going to be below the elbow. So I\u2019m lucky, and I\u2019m alive. But, you know, it\u2019s a shock. What am I gonna do? I write. There are many people to credit for my recovery, and you\u2019re one of them because you inspired me. You know, it\u2019s like our veterans. They come back without two limbs, four limbs, and they keep going, and they keep doing what they do. And it was the same with you. So just so you know, I really look up to you, and I listen to your program every day. It was really good while I was doing rehab to keep listening to you, because you know that you can be an individual with strength and stamina to keep going and not be stopped because you lose your fingers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I can imagine. When I was losing my hearing, it was obviously scary, but it was also frustrating. It happened rapidly, but in stages. I lost it all in six months. It was about 10% a week at one point. And finally, one day I came in here, and I literally, I called New York, the engineer, to get started on setup for that day\u2019s program, I couldn\u2019t understand what he was saying. I heard him fine. It\u2019s just my hearing had deteriorated that I could not make out the words. And that meant that day I was not gonna be able to understand a single thing anybody said to me on the phone. <\/p>\n

So it hit me that the original diagnosis of me was wrong. They thought, “Ah, it\u2019s just genetic. Your father was hard-of-hearing,” and they thought it would taper off and it\u2019d be handled with hearing aids. But that didn\u2019t work. I always knew — my point here, I always knew that there was not a solution, but a way to deal with it called a cochlear implant. But I didn\u2019t know how well it would work. I didn\u2019t know if it would work well enough for me to comprehend speech. But I knew there was something I could do, so I didn\u2019t really panic.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m sure in your case, same thing with me, I mean, you love to write, and so you just found a way to do it. It\u2019s what you want to do. Okay, you lost your fingers on your left hand, in your case. You also were fortunate to find things that inspired you, and you found a way around it to keep doing what you love. And, you know, everybody needs inspiration. Everybody needs assistance now and then. So I\u2019m really honored that I could have been a part of that for you. I know how important it is. I don\u2019t even think about it now other than when I — like I just got a new one on my right side, then it becomes a focal point and I tell people about it. Now to me it\u2019s just normal. How about you? What is your work-around?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m doing pretty well. I keep translating. I don\u2019t do a lot of gigs, journalism, \u2019cause I\u2019m really a bit disappointed at the state of the profession. I\u2019m doing a lot of copy writing, translating, and I\u2019m doing well. I work at home with my dog and I enjoy South Florida, and —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you use your right hand to write?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no, both hands. The one without fingers, I trained myself. In the beginning I would use Dragon, the voice recognition software, which is very good. But it\u2019s not the same when you write with your hands and when you write with your speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, that\u2019s interesting —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Completely different.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Interesting you say that, because, you know, I want to send you, do you have — well, I\u2019m gonna send it anyway. Do you have an iPad or an iPad Mini?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to send you an iPad Mini. You can dictate on it. What you\u2019re calling voice recognition, you can dictate to it. An app that has a keyboard, e-mail, word processing, you can dictate. Now, in my case, I speak my thoughts much better than I write them because that\u2019s what I\u2019ve done my whole life. My brain can\u2019t keep up with typing on a keyboard, but it can keep up with my mouth or my mouth can keep up with my brain. So when I write anything or a lot of things, I dictate it and then go back and clean it up later. Because if I write, I can\u2019t type \u2019cause I get focused on making mistakes, correcting them and losing my train of thought and I get frustrated. I\u2019ve learned that I can actually dictate my thoughts, speak them with more vocabulary and more creativity than if I just sit down and write. And not that it\u2019ll ever be that way for you, but if you let me send you one of these iPad Mini\u2019s, it\u2019s got dictation on it, you can try it and it might come in handy at least in helping you express yourself in a written way, which is what you love to do, I gather.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much. You\u2019re so nice. I have to tell you something else. I just bought your Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, not for a kid, but for me. (laughing) And I\u2019m enjoying it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bought it for you? (laughing).<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yes. Yes. I\u2019m a voracious reader, and I try to improve my English every day. And my learning of history of this country, I\u2019m so glad and so grateful to be able to become an American, which will be very soon.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, God bless you. Look, I\u2019m flattered. I\u2019m flattered that you called. If you will hang on, the people you talked to when you called will get your address, and make sure it\u2019s an address that we can FedEx to. We don\u2019t mail here for a bunch of reasons. And I\u2019ll get it out to you. It might be a week before I can get to it, \u2019cause I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve got one here. I\u2019ve got \u2019em at home, but I\u2019ll do my best to get it as quickly as we can. In the meantime, I appreciate it, Alicia. Thank you so much. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gotta go, folks. Quick time-out because time constraints force me to. Back after this with much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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