I am hard of hearing. Let that be said right off the bat. I'm profoundly deaf in one ear (90dbs.), and I'm probably losing more hearing in my other ear. Sorta off-kilter hearing. This blog is to record the oddities of hearing loss and deafness (two different things), and share useful facts and information about living in a VERY quiet world.
Hearing loss runs in my family, with early hearing loss affecting my mum and my mum's parents. And I, lil' Kiwi, was born off-kilter. Wooo! We didn't discover MY deafness until I was 9. Woooo... yeah.
Did you know that if you're deaf in one ear, you have no sound direction? So someone calls you from one direction, you'll probably look somewhere else. I've actually consistently answered the question of the wrong person when I was in a conversation with my hearing aids out. There's a reason why people like me in Marco Polo; I never catch anyone. Kinda had to give up on that.
P.S. Tomorrow how to find where your hearing levels fall on an audiogram, in case you can't read yours.
Hearing loss runs in my family, with early hearing loss affecting my mum and my mum's parents. And I, lil' Kiwi, was born off-kilter. Wooo! We didn't discover MY deafness until I was 9. Woooo... yeah.
Did you know that if you're deaf in one ear, you have no sound direction? So someone calls you from one direction, you'll probably look somewhere else. I've actually consistently answered the question of the wrong person when I was in a conversation with my hearing aids out. There's a reason why people like me in Marco Polo; I never catch anyone. Kinda had to give up on that.
P.S. Tomorrow how to find where your hearing levels fall on an audiogram, in case you can't read yours.
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