metalangel

I was just talking to my mom on the phone and out of the blue I found out two completely unexpected things.

First of all: when I was little, I used to get a lot of ear infections. I remember this, and I remember operations to insert grommets to allow fluid to drain. However, what I don't remember is that because of these problems I used to speak with a bad lisp and was very hard to understand. My speech improved once my hearing problems subsided.

Second: My aunt is late deafened in one ear. About ten years ago (!!!) she was on the train when she suddenly had a lot of pain, felt dizzy and disoriented, couldn't stand or move or even figure out where she was. At the end of it all, she's lost most of the hearing in one of her ears and now has an HA which she doesn't like using as it's uncomfortable (so my uncle has to speak loudly when she's not facing him). I had absolutely no idea this had happened (the way she wears her hair would likely conceal the HA if she was even wearing it) or that she'd considered getting a CI only to be told the nerves might be too damaged for it to work and that there was just enough residual hearing to use an HA. Apparently she 'copes really well'... *facepalm*

I didn't get a good explanation as to why I was never told about her now, especially considering what I now want to do for a living!

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Bottesini

I forgot, what is it you want to do for a living?

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metalangel

I'm going back to school to do ASL and Deaf Studies, and then on to do the Interpreter course. Right now I have a boring desk job on the railway.

Bottesini

Good luck on that! Where South Wales? UK? So not ASL is it?

Sorry, I'm confused.

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LoveBlue

As I recall (remember, I'm in my 50's...so accurate recollection is not guaranteed ), he's Canadian hoping to move back to Canada and do his studies/interpreting there.

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Severe-to-profound hearing loss in both ears.
SD @ 100db L-88% / R-96% - unaided
Phonak Naida IX UPs

metalangel

Loveblue gets an A+ for retention I'm Canadian born and raised, currently living in the UK, looking to come back to Canada (someone I've been wanting to do for years anyway) and once I'm back I'll start my course in ASL.

Thank you very much for the good wishes, I really need them right now