danimart1105
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Hello!
I just found this site. I was diagnosed with "profound hearing loss" about 7 months ago.
I started noticing that I had problems hearing starting about 5 or so years ago. I went through the normal people yelling at me; telling me I'm "not paying attention"; accused of being "slow"...you get the picture. Finally my Boss insisted I "take care of it". (At the time I worked in a prison - literally)
I went to an Audiologist fulling expecting - convinced even - that I just needed tubes in my ears. He proceeded to tell me that I had no fluid on my ears and that the bones in my ears "did not look right". Needless to say -- I was upset. He told me to get a second opinion. I did. The test was identical and so was the diagnosis. Both have told me that my hearing may get worse and should consider learning sign language.
I wear hearing aids but I'm having problems wearing them at home due to two evil pugs who like to go after my ears. Also I cannot watch anything on TV without CC. I went to my first theater movie since my diagnosis and could not understand ANYTHING. If someone is not looking at me I cannot understand them. The audiologist tells me I read lips but that was news to me. Anyhoo - I found this website by looking for movies or theaters with CC.
I'm glad to be here and know that I'll learn a lot. So, hello everyone!!!
I just found this site. I was diagnosed with "profound hearing loss" about 7 months ago.
I started noticing that I had problems hearing starting about 5 or so years ago. I went through the normal people yelling at me; telling me I'm "not paying attention"; accused of being "slow"...you get the picture. Finally my Boss insisted I "take care of it". (At the time I worked in a prison - literally)
I went to an Audiologist fulling expecting - convinced even - that I just needed tubes in my ears. He proceeded to tell me that I had no fluid on my ears and that the bones in my ears "did not look right". Needless to say -- I was upset. He told me to get a second opinion. I did. The test was identical and so was the diagnosis. Both have told me that my hearing may get worse and should consider learning sign language.
I wear hearing aids but I'm having problems wearing them at home due to two evil pugs who like to go after my ears. Also I cannot watch anything on TV without CC. I went to my first theater movie since my diagnosis and could not understand ANYTHING. If someone is not looking at me I cannot understand them. The audiologist tells me I read lips but that was news to me. Anyhoo - I found this website by looking for movies or theaters with CC.
I'm glad to be here and know that I'll learn a lot. So, hello everyone!!!
nice to enjoy forum!
to AllDeaf forum. Most T.V. devices are already put into all televisions so that both hearing (learning how to read words) and deaf people can understand what the people are saying on televsion. You should be able to have CC on your television unless you did not know how to operate the CC mode. There is always the CC1 where there are other like CC2, CC3, and CC4. Those three last mode of CC, we don't have like that, but in some other areas they might have CC2 instead of CC1, etc. Your T.V. should not be without CC. 
