Recent content by sphenix

I haven't had my monthly visitor in over a year (which has been amazing) thanks to birth control. I'm considering taking the rod out though. As much as birth control helps with my skin issues, I'm not too happy with the fact that it has caused me to pack on pounds.

My last primary care physician put "DEAF-MUTE" right at the very top of my patient file, all in capitals above my name! That phrase irritates me to no end, as it's rather insulting to the D/HH community in terms of communication and intelligence. Not to mention I don't take kindly to "hearing...

Agreed. I have a rather androgynous face and also identify as an androgynous personality. I often wear men's shirts, basketball shorts, and sweatpants (I was a tomboy growing up, and still am pretty much a tomboy). I do wear female clothing of course, just not as much. When I had my hair cut...

Even if the nearest deaf therapist I could find and had been seeing for a couple of months ended up breaking confidentiality? No thank you. I have been through five different therapists--a hearing therapist who claimed to know ASL (her signs were horrendous!), three hearing therapists with...

Yup I noticed the same issue over here - AD was either down or running slowly.

Exactly, that's why I put quotation marks with the term beauty. Others may think it's beauty but I would beg to differ. Sent from my iPhone using AllDeaf. Please excuse any grammatical or spelling errors.

Got to admit, that got me laughing (even though it's sad two people died). Sent from my iPhone using AllDeaf. Please excuse any grammatical or spelling errors.

I was raised and educated bilingually right at the very start. I was put in an early intervention program at the age of 18 months to start reading as much as possible. My mother made index cards where the English words were written on and had matching 2-D photos of the signs and matching photos...

Exactly. I proof read my texts, e-mails, instant messages, and even AllDeaf posts (I will self-edit some posts quite a few times until it reads just the way I want it to). As the saying goes, "If you don't use it, you lose it." I try to uphold myself to high levels of competency in reading...

Before I begin I want to make it clear that I have read the entire thread myself from the beginning. The field of professional acting is a very demanding and stressful environment by any standard. I personally know I wouldn't be cut out for that type of life as I prefer my privacy. What's more...

Agreed, it depends on the operational definition of "quality of life." It's a difficult concept to measure with objective assessments, precisely because the quality of life changes depending on our perceptions and timing. With that said, quality of life is only best understood from the use of a...

Agreed! It is also why I have a disclaimer for spelling and grammatical errors when using the iPhone app for AllDeaf. I would have sworn that I typed in the correct word, only to discover shortly afterwards that autocorrect changed the word. Hence the well-known DYAC! website, where texts with...

Those MRI images you just posted proves exactly my point (and by extension Bottesini's point) from a general view. Several manufacturers and other medical sources do not support the use of MRIs with the CI magnet still there, because it will undermine the quality of the scanned images (even if...

You mean "Deaf" not "Dead" :P Sent from my iPhone using AllDeaf. Please excuse any grammatical or spelling errors.

I would have to say that the treadmill fall with the black guy and the steering wheel videos are my favorite so far in the tread...both got me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.