Tag Archives: deafness

Turning on the World-Not Worth It Sometimes

I tried to get up this morning and all I managed was to raise my noggin about 6 inches before I completely ran out of steam and my head plopped back into the pillow. Unfortunately, our newest feline menace managed to crawl onto the pillow just before my head came crashing back down effectively squashing [...]

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Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...]

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What The Heck Was That?

I tell ya’, this new programming that my audiologist stuffed into my hearing aids makes the whole world about THIS BIG. It felt like I was wearing these babies in the above image.
‘Scuse me? Huh? What was that noise? Pheeyeew! I was exhausted by the time I got home. All this new hearing capability is [...]

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How To Speak With A (partially) Deaf Person

The audiologist that I visit on occasion at the local VA medical facility, once told me that people in general really don’t have a clue about how they should speak to a partially deaf person. People are just genetically geared to assuming that everyone else can hear as well as they do with the possible [...]

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