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    Heyyy!!! Who is from Hawaii?

    Paul doesn't spend much time online lately (he's on break - so he's gone surfing all day everyday). I'm pregnant (due in January) and my doc won't let me do anything more than sit at a computer all day. We live on Oahu - moved here in 2007 from the San Diego area. If you're from SoCal, I...
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    Another body mod- Tragus piercing?

    Just make sure that you can later remove whatever piercing you get. When I was a teenager, I decided to get a bunch of funky piercings in my ears. The metal of my piercings was shaped while piercing my ear. A few years later, I needed surgery and had to remove all my piercings before the...
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    Ok, I get it, so parenting IS NOT a full time job

    Wow... I wasn't aware that deaf can't work. All this time, I grew up thinking that deaf just can't hear. I understand feeling more secure if you can hear your daughter. But, do you really think you NEED to hear to be a good mother? There's lots of deaf parents that have too severe of a...
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    SSDI thoughts??

    Glad I was helpful Peanuts! You don't have to get bilateral CI's. You would still get the loud booms you like in your non-CI ear. Another thing... my husband had a very unusual surgery (not to restore hearing though). He was born deaf and kept popping his eardrums every time he went...
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    The Day I Became a Teacher

    Great story deafbajagal. Are you still teaching at the same school? How have your students changed? Any student success stories yet?
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    SSDI thoughts??

    Oh where to begin... SSI/SSDI: No, you're not cheating as long as your income is being reported and taxed. If that's what you need for now to get by, that's fine. It doesn't hurt to have the goal of becoming independent of SSI/SSDI. Barriers of being late deaf: I'm late deaf too. I've...
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