Hi - soooo I just picked up my two hearing aids. I know I had them coming as my mum and both my sisters are deaf so I wasn't shocked to know I needed them.... but am struggling to come to terms with it. Broke down in the doctors when I saw them on the desk! Its daft isn't it - I mean on the way to the hospital today I saw people a lot worse off than me... but still I am wollowing in the fact Ive got them... I am so worried about everything to do with them. Will people notice, will people treat me differently, I just wanted to battle this hearing loss on my own - now I can hear my hair moving round my ears, my own voice (which is never a nice thing to hear!) and a constant hiss when there is no noise at all... is that right ? should I be getting that...?
I feel so stupid for feeling so against them but I just feel a bit alone - my husband, when I told him i needed two hearing aids just said 'does that mean we get a blue badge!' i know it proves he doesn't mind me getting them, probably makes his life easier not having to repeat things, but I feel like I should just be accepting them like this isn't a massive life change... but to me its a massive life change! And I know I am lucky to have gone 32 years without having to have them and that without them I can hear (just not the middle tones) ... but still - it has made me very sad.
I just wondered if there is anyone else out there who has felt the same ... ? And like I say - in the grand scheme of things this is nothing compared to what other people go through I just need to suck it up don't I?
I feel so stupid for feeling so against them but I just feel a bit alone - my husband, when I told him i needed two hearing aids just said 'does that mean we get a blue badge!' i know it proves he doesn't mind me getting them, probably makes his life easier not having to repeat things, but I feel like I should just be accepting them like this isn't a massive life change... but to me its a massive life change! And I know I am lucky to have gone 32 years without having to have them and that without them I can hear (just not the middle tones) ... but still - it has made me very sad.
I just wondered if there is anyone else out there who has felt the same ... ? And like I say - in the grand scheme of things this is nothing compared to what other people go through I just need to suck it up don't I?