Recent content by Evie Yancey

I've been half deaf in both ears for as long as I can remember, and everyone knew that one day I was going to start driving. Now I'm 16 and I've been driving for about a year. But I have some concerns... The law currently requires that I wear my hearing aids while driving, similar to someone...

So I've got two years of high school left and I plan on majoring in Deaf Education. I want to teach Deaf students on a high school level. Because of my health problems I can only live in a few states that won't set off symptoms and cause problems. The top 4 states I want to live in that will...

The problem is that I don't have an autoimmune disease, I have an auto-inflammatory immune disease, which is much rarer, and harder to treat. Symptoms are usually more intense and side effects tend to be more threatening when it comes to children in changing environments. As for school, I live...

I have said that and she gets mad. Then she makes me put them in. Once she can no longer see me I take them out.

So for one to keep in mind, I have analog hearing aids. But the reason I lost my hearing in the first place is due to a rare auto-inflammatory immune disease called NOMID. Basically my immune system is always on, causing inflammation and damage to multiple parts of the body mostly the joints...

So I'm 15, 10th grade, I've had hearing aids since 3rd grade. I have a nasty habit of losing a hearing aid every now and then. In the past 6 years I've lost 2 hearing aids, and Monday made 3 hearing aids. When I told my teacher the other day he asked me why I don't just have a cochlear, and I...

I'd love to talk, but I work on chromebook, instead of a regular PC or computer. I'll try to find some way to get Skype on my book, because it would feel so good to talk. I do have Facebook and Google+ if you can chat or hangout in the meantime.

You haven't heard of it, It's an auto inflammatory disease called NOMID which is short for Neonatal Onset Multisystem Inflammatory disease. So basically my immune system is on all of the time. One of the side effects is meningitis, which is what did the damage to the nerve. Other than my mother...

I live with my mom and maternal grandparents, Dad hasn't been around for years. My mom likes to learn somethings, but she has the worse memory and gets mad very easily at me for trying to teach her after work, which is the only time I see her. My grandparents hate when I sign, because I've grown...

Yeah, I have a very rare genetic disease that has done severe damage to my auditory nerves. When I say rare, I mean I'm the only person other than my mother with this disease in the state. By now it's under control, but I'm scheduled for a new hearing screening, because I can hear a big...

My name is Evie, I didn't know I'd was hard of hearing until third grade, I found out through a school screening. We didn't know because I had been reading lips without realizing it for what we think was most likely a year or two. So I went to the audiologist and got tested and recieved hearing...