Saavik
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Tipperary, Ireland and the Metropolitan DC area are what I consider home. I'm 23 and was in the Army. I lost a significant amount of hearing during my time in and I'm worried that damage is progressing. The defining moment when my hearing took the most damage was when I fired hundreds of rounds with a M240b machinegun and couldn't hear much for quite some time. It seems things are becoming harder to hear and I have to constantly ask people to repeat things and speak up. I can't even hear my friend's GPS at all and it was playing through the car speakers, which made our trip awful, since I kept missing important directions. I have to turn music way up to actually hear it, which is likely doing more damage.
During the last screening when I was in the Army during deployment, the captain reviwing my hearing test was amazed how much hearing loss I had and asked how old I was (I was about 21 at the time). I recently decided as a precaution to my seemingly deteriorating hearing to take ASL 1 at my college. I'd like to get my hearing checked so I can compare the hearing loss then and now to try determining a rate of loss.
It's rather embarrassing and irritating to have people say something and get mad when I don't hear them, because they said it 'loud enough'. I have no money to pay for a hearing test and I don't even know were to go in my area to get one. Ifear the day I lose music.
During the last screening when I was in the Army during deployment, the captain reviwing my hearing test was amazed how much hearing loss I had and asked how old I was (I was about 21 at the time). I recently decided as a precaution to my seemingly deteriorating hearing to take ASL 1 at my college. I'd like to get my hearing checked so I can compare the hearing loss then and now to try determining a rate of loss.
It's rather embarrassing and irritating to have people say something and get mad when I don't hear them, because they said it 'loud enough'. I have no money to pay for a hearing test and I don't even know were to go in my area to get one. Ifear the day I lose music.