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    Hi

    Thank you for the welcome Lil_country_gal, Sunshinelady and RebelGirl. This is such a busy site! I am trying to keep, just reading! :)
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    anyone have facebook?

    I use Facebook! It has Scrabble :D nuff said and I am waaay over 41 :)
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    Deaf Police Officer

    Wow! What a great story! Next time I'm in New Orleans I'll look out for you! :)
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    Household solutions

    I dunno if this is a practical suggestion - but I have a Hearing Ear Dog and he alerts me to just about everything! A squirrel can't run up a tree across the street without him letting me know :hmm: but I feel safer with him cause he is trained for most household sounds. Plus he is relaly cute!
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    "Oh, you speak so well!" and other annoying comments

    Dixie - for the phone I use an amplified Clearsounds phone for HoH - and a Walker 10 amplifier which attachs between the handset and the phone. It's pretty good - though the quality of sound is dreadful - tinny and distorted - and I get feedback - even though I am using my T-Switch. But it is...
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    "Oh, you speak so well!" and other annoying comments

    Oh, Farmerjoe - I can only get away with passing for hearing for about 10 minutes. By that time - if I am 'faking it' - I am so lost in the conversation that I have to start asking for repeats - and then I just fake it half the time instead of all the time. :roll: I hate being so irritating...
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    More ideas for re-name The Closet

    I like that! :)
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    The Closet Poll

    I think this is very well put. As for re-naming - I dunno - how bout Friends of Dorothy? The only issue I see coming up with using 'GLBT' is that, as different smaller communities within the GLBT community emerge - they will want their initial included and that will lead to yet another...
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    Hi

    Thank you for the welcome peppsiwoman - sure is busy here! I will have try hard to keep up. :D
  10. J

    Hi

    Hi all - thanks for the warm welcome - this is a huge site. I will have to take some time to look around. I have already posted in one thread. Can't wait to read more! :type:
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    "Oh, you speak so well!" and other annoying comments

    Oh - I am just a new member and I have not had time to read more than the first page of this - but I loved the heading of this thread!! I am severly Hard of Hearing - 75 bd bilateral - my speech recoginition is about 80% and I speak very well - I believe. But I still struggle, and hearing...
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    Hi

    Hi - I am in Canada - I was looking for forums for Deaf and H of H and I am so happy to have found this one :) I am a 60 year woman - I am a jeweller and also make film props. I have two grown children who don't live with me - got a dog and some cats though. :) I am going to have a look...
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