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  1. steph9700

    Love or hate your job?

    Or there are jobs here like in the medical field where you work 16 or more in one shift! I worked at an emergency room and when it comes bad weather we would work until someone else could come in to give us enough time for a quick nap in the rehabilitation department room. when it came that...
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    Adjustment to late onset deafness

    you're very welcome. most companies that make behind the ear hearing aids now make the newer open ear type fittings that you can easily use with your TMJ issues, you just have to search for them a little bit, print out what you find and show your Dr.'s office the next time you go or find another...
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    Are there really HOH and Deaf Police Officers

    AMEN! My dad was the first very hard of hearing person hired into the Cullman County Sheriff's department. He started the flight program for both Cullman county and Cullman city. He never let anything keep him from doing anything he wanted to do. He was full patrol, he picked up people on...
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    Are there really HOH and Deaf Police Officers

    OH SWEET DIXIE! You can do what you want, as long as you have the right equipment with you to do the job you want to do! You have the knowledge, you have the heart, and with all of the technology they have out now you can get stethoscopes and all sorts of things to make you just as good if not...
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    Adjustment to late onset deafness

    I was born in Germany, my dad was army but I was raised in Cullman Alabama from the time I was 6yrs. old. I hated all the discriminations... I went to the ONLY school in the county that had students that were not white. I was allowed to have black friends but wasn't allowed to go to their house...
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    Bad News:

    Cheri, my dad had several strokes which led them to kind out he had some serious heart problems. They found and fixed the issues with his heart and due to the strokes he had some memory issues which did get better over time. He couldn't work anymore but was back to his old self within a year or...
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    Looking for your insight on this situation...

    Thank-You! I think I'm going to see if I can find a person to be my "ghost writer" as they say, I tell them my life story, they write it out into a book, we publish it and they get a decent cut of the profits, I think it would have to go under fiction though because a lot of stuff in my life a...
  8. steph9700

    Adjustment to late onset deafness

    there are alternatives for you, depending on the brand you can have what they call open ear hearing aids where you don't have to have the typical ear mold that completely fills your entire canal. there are plenty of aid companies that you can look into that have what they call open hearing...
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    Adjustment to late onset deafness

    You can find hearing aid dealers that use more than just traditional molds that fill the whole inside of your canal. they do have now little tubes that go down into your ear and don't completely plug the canal. I found a site that will show you the different ones that you could use/order with...
  10. steph9700

    I finally get to start classes!

    Thanks you guys! I had fun, I talked some of the other students into meeting 30minutes before each class so we could practice a little with each other a bit before Jan comes in and flies through forty things! She is so sweet but man does she fly! She's been an interpreter for the last 15 years...
  11. steph9700

    Looking for your insight on this situation...

    I was treated badly by my family & by students & teachers alike growing up in a small town here in the south, (Alabama). At the beginning of every school year , (at least K-5 grades), a football teams worth of medical people came in & tested us for everything they could during the first couple...
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    I finally get to start classes!

    I have been sending emails almost monthly for around 1 to 1&1/2 years to the aidb to this one person that is listed as contact on the bottom of the adult education section. I tried something different this month and just typed in a few random letters and numbers ..."@aidb.org" so it would hit...
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    Adjustment to late onset deafness

    I haven't had the chance to read any of your other posts, was wondering how old you are now and how much of your hearing you have lost since you started noticing you had a loss? They told me when I was 15 at a high school screening that I had what they called a cookie bite loss. the bass tones...
  14. steph9700

    I've been gone so long...

    Thanks you guys! Since I had to bury both my parents last year and been diagnosed with some serious issues I been kind of down in the dumps til I remembered, hey I do have a really good support system, I have you guys on this site and my friends on the messengers that I grew up with. I don't...
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    I've been gone so long...

    Thank you! I needed that! it has been rough but I am hanging in there!
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    I've been gone so long...

    ...I think I need to reintroduce myself, My name is Stephanie Peacock and I've been a member here for a while, I've just had some trouble along the way and haven't been able to post in a long time. I was wearing "Qualitone" full shell hearing aids until I inherited my dads Phonak Savia Art over...
  17. steph9700

    What do you do when someone HAS your DOG?

    Send all your information, everything about Gabbie to a television news channel that covers your area and Owassa area, see if a reporter will pick it up and show your story, send it in via the internet and show them the links to all your postings and the informaton of your vet and take pics of...
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    What do you do when someone HAS your DOG?

    anymore new news? I would get your baby back if I lived closer. As is now living in Alabama there is no way I could help. you are in my thoughts, I would die if one of my "children" was taken without me having a chance to get them back. send a letter with more details and a picture to the...
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    Thank all of yall for...

    Thank yo for the prayers and well wishes about my cousin Christy during the loss of her husband. They have deemed it negligent homicide, he was playing with guns and drinking with some buddies out behind where he was staying and one of the guys pulled the trigger before he had a clear shot and...
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    Please say a prayer for a close friend of mine...

    My thoughts and prayers are with you and your friend at this rough time.
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