Marry Christmas, happy new year and happy holidays to all... You all are wonderful people and this forum has been of great support for me in my darkest days... I'm very thankful @erik@Hope2015@Jose0964@glynis and many others that had been so wonderful and supportive... Special thanks to one of the most wonderful man I've ever met ... For all his support and insight.... You have really made a difference in my life!!!!! @Danny Boy ... Cheers to all!!
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas from sunny Brisbane...thanks for the support I've received from everyone here since getting T 18 months ago. I'm still taking each day as it comes and trying to get on with life
It's that time of year to quieten down (and no pun intended here), relax and enjoy the company of our dearest loved ones.
I thank all of our members for the most special year 2015. Next March we are already 5 years old — time has truly flown.
I would like to recognize everyone, but since feasibly I can only a few (those forgotten/not listed; you are still equally special too!), I'd like to say thanks to the following people, who've made this year special for me... Randomly sorted:
@Steve, thank you for your friendship, for your partnership, for your understanding, for your care of our community,
@Karen, @erik, @marqualler, @awbw8, and all our previous moderators, thank you for keeping an eye on Tinnitus Talk, taking care of our members' issues, for providing valuable thoughts and input, for being a cornerstone of this community,
All our Benefactors, your help makes it possible for us to keep pushing the envelope, to help us excel at what we offer everyone here, to keep the lights on and to run awareness campaigns, also thank you all for wanting to consistently offer your experiences and advice to our newbies,
@attheedgeofscience, thank you for being the most goal-oriented, persistent, achieving member here, truly a "tinnitus rock star", you don't just talk the talk, you walk the walk,
@Onnie, thanks go to you and your boyfriend for taking part in our awareness efforts, the animation will be great, and you will be remembered for it,
@valeri, @DebInAustralia, @Hope2015, it isn't easy to get people involved on a consistent basis, I thank you for your advocacy efforts and for your energy, excellent work,
Doctors' Corner clinicians, thank you for your contributions, I acknowledge it isn't really active anymore, but it remains a good resource and it is our hope that we can reinvigorate it in the future,
@just1morething, thank you for being a wonderful, reliable friend,
@Zimichael, @Dana, you have lately offered a lot of wisdom, thank you,
@glynis, you joining made many people smile, you make many people smile, you are very caring and knowledgeable too, thank you for sharing your insight and empathy here on the forums,
@Danny Boy, you have your heart in the right place, thank you for wanting to help our members, regardless of how polarizing some of your contributions may have been, add smile here, you've come a long way,
@billie48, the tenacity of how you sincerely, continuously write touching, helpful comments is puzzling, I'm truly in awe of you, you are one of the people who I will without a doubt remember for the rest of my life,
@RaZaH, add a winky smiley here, you are a gem, enough said,
@Harold, thanks for making our Chat a warm place! And everyone else who uses our Chat, thank you too,
@Sound Wave, it has been a pleasure, thank you for bringing some of that Finnish flair here, your ideas and insight never go unappreciated,
@carlover, you are one of those people who I met in my early tinnitus days, it was on the old RNID forum, and you are frequently in my thoughts, thank you for sharing the things you've learned here,
@LeQuack, fellow soldier in the war of debilitating tinnitus, it's been a pleasure to have made your acquaintance,
@Mpt, thank you for starting the most popular thread on Tinnitus Talk ever, your Retigabine thread was a significant part of how Tinnitus Talk began its collaboration with the Tinnitus Research Initiative (psst. Retigabine can be dangerous, it's not something to try without being prescribed by a medical doctor under careful monitoring),
@Michael Leigh, you have written some great articles, keep it going, and here's hoping you get your book published,
@Stina, you used to write here a lot, not so much recently, but I remember your posts fondly, I thank you for your history here, I hope you are doing better (well, I hope that for everyone), and hope to see you around,
Everyone else not mentioned, people who I don't even know, such as our thousands and thousands of lurkers not signed up, thank you for reading, contributing and participating here, each of ours experience with tinnitus is unique, and every single soul brings something to the table!
Thanks @Markku for the kind words, and for setting up and running this wonderful site to help the T sufferers all over the world. Keep up the good works. Wishing you, Steve and all the admins of TT a very Merry Christmas.
Thank you for the shout out, @Markku. During this time of reflection, I am grateful for YOU and all you have done to create this thriving, supportive community -- a place where all are welcome, despite our many different beliefs and backgrounds, and all are valued.
That the world might be the same. Then we finally might have the true peace that has eluded humanity for eons.
Wishing you all blessings from my lovely peninsular home. May you find joy in however you celebrate this seasonal passage. Keep the faith that all will be well.
And wear your ear plugs!
Oh, and dear @Fungus: Wanted to tell you how much I loved you photo of your sheep in the snow. While its great to live in the sunny subtropics, I never stop missing the first snowfall of the year and how silent the world becomes. I saved your picture and keep it on my computer, its so pretty. Thanks for sharing.
A few words from myself now that "another year" has gone by.
Special thanks and thoughts - in no particular order - go to:
@billie48 and @caffclifton who are ambassadors here at TinnitusTalk. Billie spends time practically everyday here on the forum helping new members through their early stages of tinnitus. Caff has suffered severe inner ear unilateral hearing loss, but as her Facebook profile will testify, she is still as busy as always enjoying life. Her FB account can be found elsewhere here on the forum.
@Markku for having developed a refined social media profile approach to TinnitusTalk - especially on Facebook. TinniusTalk now enjoys ratings (and hence awareness) equivalent to a forum that has a fan base roughly 75 to 100 times larger than TinnitusTalk.
Those members who are part of the social media task force.
The loyal fan base which has materialized over the past ½-year here on TinnitusTalk. The fan base is made up of both TT-members and visitors. While there could be many more people rating the FB-posts, the loyal fan base has been very much noted by myself.
@Zimichael for both on- and off-line communication - and - a loyal member of Team Trobalt.
Auris Medical, Autifony Therapeutics, and the BTA for being willing to engage with the tinnitus population via Q&A sessions.
May we all find the peace and positivity to soldier on with life despite what T will do. Let's tell Mr. T to take a ticket and wait in line while we will enjoy the festive season and holidays.
This is just to wish all of you a great new year or at least a better one than 2015. By New Year's Eve 2016, there will be many more people with T and I hope that some of them will turn to this site for support as I did.
A big thank you to all those who have helped me with so much positive and constructive advice. It's quite possible that I'll need some more in the future from time to time but I hope that 2016 is a year for me to really move forward after this year's suffering and I also hope to continue to habituate to my own noise and reduce some of my anxiety further so I can function again 100%.
Best wishes.
Jonathan
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