Greetings from New Zealand

[Daza]

Hi all. I am new here. Im 39 guy who's been HOH all my life.
My right ear is completely deaf and my left was until my 20s my good ear.
But when i was 20-21 i developed tinnitus and my hearing got so bad i had to wearing a hearing aid. Socialising wasn't my strong suit, and from that time it was harder to socialise.

My hearing has dropped or worsened several times since then and now i have my third hearing aid. But i find i get worn out with loud background noise or when i am tired. I also had some middle ear problems and had vertigo was a problem for a while but haven't had any problems with it for a long time. Although when i am very tired my head can feel woozy which was the prelude to a vertigo attack in the past.

I am currently unemployed. But have been working as a cook in the resthome scene for the last 15 years. I haven't been working for nearly two years now. I am currently learning web design and hoping to be able to be eventually self-employed.

Anyway i hope to make some new friends on here.

 

[meeganb]

Hi daza
Welcome to all deaf!!
I joined today and I'm looking to make friends that are HOH aswell.
I've only just been diagnosed as HOH in the last 2 months and just received my first bilateral hearing aids. I was diagnosed with moderate hearing loss In my right and mild hearing loss in my left.

Do you speak orally or do you know ASL?



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[MattB]

Welcome to the community, Daza!

Kind of sounds like me, HOH as well, into gaming, web design, etc. I've also started getting tinnitus a couple of years ago and then vertigo a year ago, although the vertigo has thankfully moved on. I'm waiting for the tinnitus to pack up and leave the building, as well. What an annoying affliction it has become.

Do I take it you like to cook? That's awesome that you got to work in a resthome cooking, that's something to be proud of. I used to do DJ jobs at resthomes (we call them nursing homes) to entertain the residents with old timey music and they always had a blast with that.

 

[Simown]

Welcome!

 

[gregnstein]

Welcome!

 

[Daza]

Hi daza
Welcome to all deaf!!
I joined today and I'm looking to make friends that are HOH aswell.
I've only just been diagnosed as HOH in the last 2 months and just received my first bilateral hearing aids. I was diagnosed with moderate hearing loss In my right and mild hearing loss in my left.

Do you speak orally or do you know ASL?



Sent from my GT-I9505 using AllDeaf App mobile app

Yes i speak orally. My left ear as far as i knew growing up was normal. My parents didnt know i had a hearing problem until i was 4. I do have problems pronouncing certain words with silent vowels etc.

I do not know ASL, or NZSL for that matter. I did try to learn NZSL ages ago but found it was very hard to learn. I can sort of read lips, which i rely upon if i am not wearing my hearing aid or if noise prevents me from hearing. But I am not an ace at it. If my hearing gets to a point in the future hearing aids arent as effective or my hearing worsens then i probably will start to learn sign again. You really need to have people to sign regularly with to keep up with it i guess. But at least its more possible now online than ever before.

How are you finding your hearing aids? did you get any headaches or get easily tired from adjusting to it? I found every time i had a new hearing aid i would have an adjustment period where i would get hearing fatigue a lot for a while until i got used to it. And you do adjust.

 

[Calvin]

 

[Daza]

Welcome to the community, Daza!

Kind of sounds like me, HOH as well, into gaming, web design, etc. I've also started getting tinnitus a couple of years ago and then vertigo a year ago, although the vertigo has thankfully moved on. I'm waiting for the tinnitus to pack up and leave the building, as well. What an annoying affliction it has become.

Do I take it you like to cook? That's awesome that you got to work in a resthome cooking, that's something to be proud of. I used to do DJ jobs at resthomes (we call them nursing homes) to entertain the residents with old timey music and they always had a blast with that.

How bad is your tinnitus? it drove me crazy when i first got it, which was off and on until it wouldn't go away. I am used to it now, its a bit like you don't know you are blinking unless you focus on it. They say its caused by nerve endings breaking off, so even with a hearing aid those lost signals cannot be replaced. But i can still hearing speech quite well up close, but in a group situation it goes down hill.

Do I like to cook? sometimes. The food industry was something i stumbled into and kind of got stuck with it. I did enjoy the multi-tasking and creative aspect of it. But ive been wanting a career change for a long time. It is difficult to work full time and do study in your spare time as well.

So webdesign is what i am learning at the moment on lynda.com which has captions on their videos. I have dabbled a little with css and javascript with Twine (a browser based interactive fiction program). I like the problem solving aspect of making trying to make code work. I am looking at using wordpress as the main cms and create custom themes.

How long have you been web-designing for?

 

[Reba]

 

[MattB]

How bad is your tinnitus? it drove me crazy when i first got it, which was off and on until it wouldn't go away. I am used to it now, its a bit like you don't know you are blinking unless you focus on it. They say its caused by nerve endings breaking off, so even with a hearing aid those lost signals cannot be replaced. But i can still hearing speech quite well up close, but in a group situation it goes down hill.

Do I like to cook? sometimes. The food industry was something i stumbled into and kind of got stuck with it. I did enjoy the multi-tasking and creative aspect of it. But ive been wanting a career change for a long time. It is difficult to work full time and do study in your spare time as well.

So webdesign is what i am learning at the moment on lynda.com which has captions on their videos. I have dabbled a little with css and javascript with Twine (a browser based interactive fiction program). I like the problem solving aspect of making trying to make code work. I am looking at using wordpress as the main cms and create custom themes.

How long have you been web-designing for?

I'm not sure how to grade the noise of the tinnitus. During the day I can largely ignore it by doing daily things and keeping myself busy. If I sit back and relax, it is front and center. The worst time I have with it is when I try to go to sleep. Then it is near impossible to ignore. I find that the more tired I am or the more I work my eyes, the worse the ringing is, oddly enough. The intensity of the ringing fluctuates a bit and about once a month it flares up into territory where it's even impossible to ignore it during the day.

I think I've been doing web design since 98 or 99, although back then it was pretty basic HTML stuff. It wasn't until about 02 or 03 that I got into the more advanced HTML with CSS.

It's a good idea to, as you learn, to use a site, program or browser that lets you see real-time changes of what code you are putting in. This is especially handy for CSS experimentation and learning. Also always backup every file and changes you make. Dropbox is handy for this because it not only backs up each file and updates to said files but also has a revision system so you can go back two or three updates ago if you decide to go back to an earlier point or to grab some old code that you want back again.

Since you're starting out, code for your favorite browser of choice and then later as you get more comfortable you'll want to make sure the front-end looks the same way in other browsers (you may have to use some hacks and work-arounds in CSS to pull this off, though.) It's a frustrating task to make the design look similar in all the main browsers (IE, FF, Chrome, Safari, & Opera) so do that down the line.

Always make it a point to make sure your site's design is standards-compliant. It'll make troubleshooting and fixing much easier. You can either go with XHTML 1.0 Transitional or HTML 5, whichever one you are looking to learn. Standards-compliant coding will also make it much easier to make the design similar in other browsers (but not completely.)

Finally, what I've done was learn by others coding. Looking under the hood of other custom Wordpress themes and modifying it to suit your tastes or just to mess around is a fantastic way to learn. At least that was the case for me. I've dabbled in PHP doing that very thing, just lurking around in someone else's code.

Here are some other resources to learn HTML and CSS:

Beginners: http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/
Advanced: http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/
CodeAcademy: http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/web

 

[Daza]

I'm not sure how to grade the noise of the tinnitus. During the day I can largely ignore it by doing daily things and keeping myself busy. If I sit back and relax, it is front and center. The worst time I have with it is when I try to go to sleep. Then it is near impossible to ignore. I find that the more tired I am or the more I work my eyes, the worse the ringing is, oddly enough. The intensity of the ringing fluctuates a bit and about once a month it flares up into territory where it's even impossible to ignore it during the day.

I think I've been doing web design since 98 or 99, although back then it was pretty basic HTML stuff. It wasn't until about 02 or 03 that I got into the more advanced HTML with CSS.

It's a good idea to, as you learn, to use a site, program or browser that lets you see real-time changes of what code you are putting in. This is especially handy for CSS experimentation and learning. Also always backup every file and changes you make. Dropbox is handy for this because it not only backs up each file and updates to said files but also has a revision system so you can go back two or three updates ago if you decide to go back to an earlier point or to grab some old code that you want back again.

Since you're starting out, code for your favorite browser of choice and then later as you get more comfortable you'll want to make sure the front-end looks the same way in other browsers (you may have to use some hacks and work-arounds in CSS to pull this off, though.) It's a frustrating task to make the design look similar in all the main browsers (IE, FF, Chrome, Safari, & Opera) so do that down the line.

Always make it a point to make sure your site's design is standards-compliant. It'll make troubleshooting and fixing much easier. You can either go with XHTML 1.0 Transitional or HTML 5, whichever one you are looking to learn. Standards-compliant coding will also make it much easier to make the design similar in other browsers (but not completely.)

Finally, what I've done was learn by others coding. Looking under the hood of other custom Wordpress themes and modifying it to suit your tastes or just to mess around is a fantastic way to learn. At least that was the case for me. I've dabbled in PHP doing that very thing, just lurking around in someone else's code.

Here are some other resources to learn HTML and CSS:

Beginners: Learn to Code HTML & CSS
Advanced: Learn to Code Advanced HTML & CSS
CodeAcademy: HTML & CSS | Codecademy

Tinnitus is different for everyone, i often describe it to people who have never experienced it as like being in a beehive with thousands of bees buzzing. I too find when im over tired it seems to be louder, but this could be perhaps the brains ability to mask it somewhat is lessened? and more intolerant to it? the pitch seems to change too.

How long have you suffered from Tinnitus? I have had mine for about 18 years.

Thanks for the good tips and links about webdesign. Maybe five years back or longer i did look into learning html but couldn't get my head around it.
I am no good at maths and thought it was too hard. But i when i started to learn how to script for mission making in the Arma games (along with its built in mission editor) which uses its own scripting language loosely based on C. Through looking at other peoples scripts i could cobble together some basic things and learnt the important of Syntax (often the cause of pulling out your hair when something SHOULD work lol) and basic logic like with boolen and if conditions etc. Overtime i learnt enough to be able to grasp Twine's own scripting language based on javascript and html5. So that has paved the way for me to look at webdesign again, it makes more sense to me now. Even if i see something i don't completely know the nuts and bolts of, i have a gist of what it does or where it belongs.

So do you find a lot of work as a (im guessing freelance) web-designer? or is it a tough field to break into? but gets easier once you establish yourself?

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Hi all. I am new here. Im 39 guy who's been HOH all my life.
My right ear is completely deaf and my left was until my 20s my good ear.
But when i was 20-21 i developed tinnitus and my hearing got so bad i had to wearing a hearing aid. Socialising wasn't my strong suit, and from that time it was harder to socialise.

My hearing has dropped or worsened several times since then and now i have my third hearing aid. But i find i get worn out with loud background noise or when i am tired. I also had some middle ear problems and had vertigo was a problem for a while but haven't had any problems with it for a long time. Although when i am very tired my head can feel woozy which was the prelude to a vertigo attack in the past.

I am currently unemployed. But have been working as a cook in the resthome scene for the last 15 years. I haven't been working for nearly two years now. I am currently learning web design and hoping to be able to be eventually self-employed.

Anyway i hope to make some new friends on here.

Biofeedback For Tinnitus | Tinnitus Treatment | Arches Tinnitus Formula | Arches Tinnitus Research Library


Have you thought of trying Biofeedback for your tinnitus ? I get this and I try to not think about. It can drive you nutty if last a long time. I had a friend that had it for years , she got very sick and woke up with tinnitus .

 

[Daza]

Biofeedback For Tinnitus | Tinnitus Treatment | Arches Tinnitus Formula | Arches Tinnitus Research Library


Have you thought of trying Biofeedback for your tinnitus ? I get this and I try to not think about. It can drive you nutty if last a long time. I had a friend that had it for years , she got very sick and woke up with tinnitus .

No i haven't heard of biofeedback before.

Have you tried it for your tinnitus?

I have an info book about tinnitus and one of the things it suggests is to lower your salt intake. Although i didn't notice any difference with this. Stress and tiredness can make it worse and caffeine can make it worse too apparently.

I have had tinnitus for about 18 years and have come used to it. I wonder at times whether this makes it harder for people with hearing loss to either concentrate compared to other people with hearing loss but no tinnitus? it would be a tough question to answer because everyones hearing loss can be different as too tinnitus.

I sometimes mask it by playing music. It doesn't bother me too much when it comes to sleep, but i usually go to bed late when im tired enough to go to sleep quickly anyway.

 

[MattB]

Tinnitus is different for everyone, i often describe it to people who have never experienced it as like being in a beehive with thousands of bees buzzing. I too find when im over tired it seems to be louder, but this could be perhaps the brains ability to mask it somewhat is lessened? and more intolerant to it? the pitch seems to change too.

How long have you suffered from Tinnitus? I have had mine for about 18 years.

Thanks for the good tips and links about webdesign. Maybe five years back or longer i did look into learning html but couldn't get my head around it.
I am no good at maths and thought it was too hard. But i when i started to learn how to script for mission making in the Arma games (along with its built in mission editor) which uses its own scripting language loosely based on C. Through looking at other peoples scripts i could cobble together some basic things and learnt the important of Syntax (often the cause of pulling out your hair when something SHOULD work lol) and basic logic like with boolen and if conditions etc. Overtime i learnt enough to be able to grasp Twine's own scripting language based on javascript and html5. So that has paved the way for me to look at webdesign again, it makes more sense to me now. Even if i see something i don't completely know the nuts and bolts of, i have a gist of what it does or where it belongs.

So do you find a lot of work as a (im guessing freelance) web-designer? or is it a tough field to break into? but gets easier once you establish yourself?

That's awesome about ARMA. I love watching experts play the game but couldn't get into it because it's pretty hardcore and most of the time requires voice communication to get good at it, which would leave me out since I have a hard time parsing some speech, no matter how loud they are.

When I was doing freelance web design I had a friend who would offload extra work to me and that kept me busy for a while. My eyesight started going out on me about 5 or 6 years ago and I stopped doing web design because of it. It wasn't until medicine helped restore my vision earlier this year that I could even contemplate getting back into web design.

To be honest, I enjoyed the challenge of a web design when it was me doing it, but working with clients was a huge hassle and aggravation. They'd want things that were bad ideas for web design (bright background, bright text colors, blinking text, horrible stock images, etc.) and no matter how much you explain why it wasn't a good idea, they still wanted to control too much and then I'd end up with a terrible web design that I was not proud of and the client hated.

It'd be like me hiring someone to come in to do cupboards in the kitchen and telling the guy how to do his job and make it exactly like I wanted it, and then getting mad when it fell apart or ended up looking terrible at the finish. Then you had clients who didn't pay on time, or didn't pay at all, and that was another nightmare to deal with. In this case it would've been better to work with a small business who had someone handle clients for me and just let me get down to doing good design for the clients. There are a lot of challenges to freelancing, and you have to do the one-man-band thing where you wear a lot of hats to make it all work smoothly and still get a nice paycheck at the end.

 

[meeganb]

Yes i speak orally. My left ear as far as i knew growing up was normal. My parents didnt know i had a hearing problem until i was 4. I do have problems pronouncing certain words with silent vowels etc.



I do not know ASL, or NZSL for that matter. I did try to learn NZSL ages ago but found it was very hard to learn. I can sort of read lips, which i rely upon if i am not wearing my hearing aid or if noise prevents me from hearing. But I am not an ace at it. If my hearing gets to a point in the future hearing aids arent as effective or my hearing worsens then i probably will start to learn sign again. You really need to have people to sign regularly with to keep up with it i guess. But at least its more possible now online than ever before.



How are you finding your hearing aids? did you get any headaches or get easily tired from adjusting to it? I found every time i had a new hearing aid i would have an adjustment period where i would get hearing fatigue a lot for a while until i got used to it. And you do adjust.

I'm struggling with headaches and getting hearing fatigue. Sometimes I find the need to switch off even if just for 20 min to relax in a quite world. It's been difficult as I work as a nurse and struggle to hear doctors n other nurses if they r in a rush. Esp if they have an accent. Hoping things will get easier as the weeks go on.
I guess in some ways I'm lucky to loose my hearing later in life as I didn't struggle in school. But I think you cope better as a child as you don't over think it and adapt easier

 

[caz12]

hi

 

[Daza]

I'm struggling with headaches and getting hearing fatigue. Sometimes I find the need to switch off even if just for 20 min to relax in a quite world. It's been difficult as I work as a nurse and struggle to hear doctors n other nurses if they r in a rush. Esp if they have an accent. Hoping things will get easier as the weeks go on.
I guess in some ways I'm lucky to loose my hearing later in life as I didn't struggle in school. But I think you cope better as a child as you don't over think it and adapt easier

The headaches will eventually disappear, unless your hearing aids are turned up too high or needs some tweaking. Sometimes you can get the background noise down on them, but then you find it harder to hear speech unless up close and in a quiet room etc.

The fatigue part will lessen a little once you adjust, but you still will get fatigued more than a normal hearing person. Your brain has to work on two levels filling in the gaps and coping with the background noise.
I sometimes think i heard what someone said and understood it, only to learn they didn't say what i thought they said. So if its something important, just repeat back what you thought they said or ask them to repeat.

Turning off your hearing aid for a break is a good idea (when its safe to at work) and when i was working i had to do that too.
You will work out coping mechanisms that work for you.
I can imagine being a nurse is already a hectic job and communication is important. Perhaps you may need think about a different work environment such as a private hospital (like private surgery hospitals- i don't know what they are called) the pace there might not be as hectic. Stress can make things worse in this time of adjusting.

I think telling people and friends you have had hearing loss is important as some people hide the fact of their hearing loss because of the stigma that can come with wearing a hearing aid or not hearing well. Doing this early makes it easier than trying to hide the fact a long the way which is more stress. When i first got my HA i hated the idea of wearing one and what people might think about me. However not wearing one would of meant i wouldn't be able to keep my job. It doesn't bother me. In my opinion people you talk to that sees the hearing aid can understand a little better that you find it hard to hear, than come across as being rude. It does take a hit to your socialising confidence, but i think those who are late deafened have perhaps an advantage of learning some socialising skills that may of not been picked up if they had hearing loss real young. Just tell people you are not being rude or stuck up because you didnt reply or can't keep up with the conversation. There will be people who still wont understand why you get tired and withdraw in a group conversation or socialising.
Also you might find when you do tell people they will try to include you and ask you if you heard what was said etc, this doesn't really help as it puts the spotlight on you and makes it hard to switch off when you have reached your limit. So this could be another reason why people don't say anything. I think knowing this might happen beforehand can enable you to meet this head on and just tell the group or individual just treat you as they normally would, but just face you when they talk to you. But don't keep asking if you heard everything and sometimes you need a break. After a while they will get used to that. Its better to avoid socialising in large groups where there will be a group conversation.

You still will get people that won't understand that hearing loss leads to hearing fatigue or when you are physically tired it can make it harder to concentrate on a flow of verbal information. But thats there problem.

So take the initiative and socialise in a small group or 1 on 1 when it suits you. I find evenings for me is the worse time to socialize because its the end of the day where your energy levels have past their peak.

I hope i haven't rambled too much here. I tend to ramble hehe.

 

[Daza]

That's awesome about ARMA. I love watching experts play the game but couldn't get into it because it's pretty hardcore and most of the time requires voice communication to get good at it, which would leave me out since I have a hard time parsing some speech, no matter how loud they are.

When I was doing freelance web design I had a friend who would offload extra work to me and that kept me busy for a while. My eyesight started going out on me about 5 or 6 years ago and I stopped doing web design because of it. It wasn't until medicine helped restore my vision earlier this year that I could even contemplate getting back into web design.

To be honest, I enjoyed the challenge of a web design when it was me doing it, but working with clients was a huge hassle and aggravation. They'd want things that were bad ideas for web design (bright background, bright text colors, blinking text, horrible stock images, etc.) and no matter how much you explain why it wasn't a good idea, they still wanted to control too much and then I'd end up with a terrible web design that I was not proud of and the client hated.

It'd be like me hiring someone to come in to do cupboards in the kitchen and telling the guy how to do his job and make it exactly like I wanted it, and then getting mad when it fell apart or ended up looking terrible at the finish. Then you had clients who didn't pay on time, or didn't pay at all, and that was another nightmare to deal with. In this case it would've been better to work with a small business who had someone handle clients for me and just let me get down to doing good design for the clients. There are a lot of challenges to freelancing, and you have to do the one-man-band thing where you wear a lot of hats to make it all work smoothly and still get a nice paycheck at the end.

Yeah i have wondered about that too, with clients either changing their minds or demand things along with clients not paying on time etc. There has to be a way to navigate around that? such as them paying up half of the fee at the start then payment in full before they get the full site.
I don't know, its easy to come up with ideas lacking experience but reality can bite. Still someone out there must of found a way around or a balanced compromise with these problems. Like having a tight contract that gives you the web design more breathing space but the offset is the price is a little cheaper that other web-designers. My sister was running a local home and garden show and wanted a website made, she went to a local web designer who wanted 3k, in the end my sister did it herself using one of those DIY websites with templates etc. Some prices seem too much, but of course this depends on how big the site will be and the amount of work required to meet the target.

It would seem better to work for someone, but between getting good enough to create stuff within a time-limit under pressure one would have to freelance at the start to gain experience to be hired perhaps? the other problem with working for someone is they can expect you to do two peoples jobs for lower wages.

Ideally one would get good enough not having to google a code problem every so often. But i cannot see why one couldn't create your own templates to speed up the work and its mainly the graphics side and tweaking the css. Thats making it sound simple i know, as there is some backend work that needs doing too.

I don't know is freelance webdesign more trouble than its worth? I like the idea of working for myself, but not with all the hassle that might come with in, including tax returns etc.

Is there any money to be made in content writing for websites? I have skills in video shooting and editing too. I recently completed a documentary i shot, on a small compact camera that outputs good HD video quality. Unfortunately i do not have subtitles on it. I would need help with that. I cannot afford better equipment, the compact camera has its limitations as you can imagine.

 

[meeganb]

The headaches will eventually disappear, unless your hearing aids are turned up too high or needs some tweaking. Sometimes you can get the background noise down on them, but then you find it harder to hear speech unless up close and in a quiet room etc.

The fatigue part will lessen a little once you adjust, but you still will get fatigued more than a normal hearing person. Your brain has to work on two levels filling in the gaps and coping with the background noise.
I sometimes think i heard what someone said and understood it, only to learn they didn't say what i thought they said. So if its something important, just repeat back what you thought they said or ask them to repeat.

Turning off your hearing aid for a break is a good idea (when its safe to at work) and when i was working i had to do that too.
You will work out coping mechanisms that work for you.
I can imagine being a nurse is already a hectic job and communication is important. Perhaps you may need think about a different work environment such as a private hospital (like private surgery hospitals- i don't know what they are called) the pace there might not be as hectic. Stress can make things worse in this time of adjusting.

I think telling people and friends you have had hearing loss is important as some people hide the fact of their hearing loss because of the stigma that can come with wearing a hearing aid or not hearing well. Doing this early makes it easier than trying to hide the fact a long the way which is more stress. When i first got my HA i hated the idea of wearing one and what people might think about me. However not wearing one would of meant i wouldn't be able to keep my job. It doesn't bother me. In my opinion people you talk to that sees the hearing aid can understand a little better that you find it hard to hear, than come across as being rude. It does take a hit to your socialising confidence, but i think those who are late deafened have perhaps an advantage of learning some socialising skills that may of not been picked up if they had hearing loss real young. Just tell people you are not being rude or stuck up because you didnt reply or can't keep up with the conversation. There will be people who still wont understand why you get tired and withdraw in a group conversation or socialising.
Also you might find when you do tell people they will try to include you and ask you if you heard what was said etc, this doesn't really help as it puts the spotlight on you and makes it hard to switch off when you have reached your limit. So this could be another reason why people don't say anything. I think knowing this might happen beforehand can enable you to meet this head on and just tell the group or individual just treat you as they normally would, but just face you when they talk to you. But don't keep asking if you heard everything and sometimes you need a break. After a while they will get used to that. Its better to avoid socialising in large groups where there will be a group conversation.

You still will get people that won't understand that hearing loss leads to hearing fatigue or when you are physically tired it can make it harder to concentrate on a flow of verbal information. But thats there problem.

So take the initiative and socialise in a small group or 1 on 1 when it suits you. I find evenings for me is the worse time to socialize because its the end of the day where your energy levels have past their peak.

I hope i haven't rambled too much here. I tend to ramble hehe.

No u haven't rambled at all. It's all very helpful! I've just moved jobs to where I'm using emails and the occasional phone call to organise people before surgery. I think this has helped my stress at work alot.

I keep think I should just post on Facebook "Yup I have hearing issues n need hearing aids." But then worry about being treated differently. But I think k why should I worry its not like people do the same thing over glasses!

My partner is having a party at our house for his birthday in a weeks time. I'm nervous about it as I get tired n tend to tune out n think people must think I'm a mega bitch.
So I guess I have.to tell people before then.

How is ur computer path going? Is it programming?

Sent from my GT-I9505 using AllDeaf App mobile app

 

[Daza]

No u haven't rambled at all. It's all very helpful! I've just moved jobs to where I'm using emails and the occasional phone call to organise people before surgery. I think this has helped my stress at work alot.

I keep think I should just post on Facebook "Yup I have hearing issues n need hearing aids." But then worry about being treated differently. But I think k why should I worry its not like people do the same thing over glasses!

My partner is having a party at our house for his birthday in a weeks time. I'm nervous about it as I get tired n tend to tune out n think people must think I'm a mega bitch.
So I guess I have.to tell people before then.

How is ur computer path going? Is it programming?

Sent from my GT-I9505 using AllDeaf App mobile app

Its webdesign im learning, its going along okay thanks.

Hopefully the party is on the weekend. I hope your partner will be considerate with the volume of music. You could try having a power-nap in the afternoon, which they say 20mins is better than longer when having a powernap. As i said before don't be afraid to say you are still trying to adjust and need to tune out at times, be clear, if you say nothing then they most likely assume the worst. The hard truth is normal hearing people do NOT have a clue what hearing loss is like. The fatigue aspect and also the psychological aspect, so you still will get people who won't get it. But thats their problem. Life goes on.