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  1. I picked up my right hearing aid today after 2 weeks of going through this loud world with only one hearing aid in my left ear.

    I had forgotten how exhausting it is to hear noise but not to be able to differentiate them. Also, I forgot how much heavy lifting my right hearing aid does!

    My left ear is almost completely closed for business, and even with a working hearing aid in it, I really struggled.

    Now that my hearing is (sort of) back, I can go back to punching Nazis.

    #HearingLoss #Deaf

  2. I picked up my right hearing aid today after 2 weeks of going through this loud world with only one hearing aid in my left ear.

    I had forgotten how exhausting it is to hear noise but not to be able to differentiate them. Also, I forgot how much heavy lifting my right hearing aid does!

    My left ear is almost completely closed for business, and even with a working hearing aid in it, I really struggled.

    Now that my hearing is (sort of) back, I can go back to punching Nazis.

    #HearingLoss #Deaf

  3. Sorry, but it should be illegal for any venue to play music at hearing-damaging levels and not provide free ear plugs.

    #HearingLoss

  4. Sorry, but it should be illegal for any venue to play music at hearing-damaging levels and not provide free ear plugs.

    #HearingLoss

  5. PSA:

    I recently turned 50 and, to celebrate, my wife told me I wasn't heaing things normally anymore.

    I went to the ear people who agreed with her.

    I'm getting hearing aids before my mother and before my father in law, both of whom hear much worse than I do, because current science suggests that untreated hearing loss contributes to cognitive decline and dementia. No thank you!

    I'll take the bionic parts.

    #hearingloss #hearingaids #genx

  6. PSA:

    I recently turned 50 and, to celebrate, my wife told me I wasn't heaing things normally anymore.

    I went to the ear people who agreed with her.

    I'm getting hearing aids before my mother and before my father in law, both of whom hear much worse than I do, because current science suggests that untreated hearing loss contributes to cognitive decline and dementia. No thank you!

    I'll take the bionic parts.

    #hearingloss #hearingaids #genx

  7. PSA:

    I recently turned 50 and, to celebrate, my wife told me I wasn't heaing things normally anymore.

    I went to the ear people who agreed with her.

    I'm getting hearing aids before my mother and before my father in law, both of whom hear much worse than I do, because current science suggests that untreated hearing loss contributes to cognitive decline and dementia. No thank you!

    I'll take the bionic parts.

    #hearingloss #hearingaids #genx

  8. PSA:

    I recently turned 50 and, to celebrate, my wife told me I wasn't heaing things normally anymore.

    I went to the ear people who agreed with her.

    I'm getting hearing aids before my mother and before my father in law, both of whom hear much worse than I do, because current science suggests that untreated hearing loss contributes to cognitive decline and dementia. No thank you!

    I'll take the bionic parts.

    #hearingloss #hearingaids #genx

  9. PSA:

    I recently turned 50 and, to celebrate, my wife told me I wasn't heaing things normally anymore.

    I went to the ear people who agreed with her.

    I'm getting hearing aids before my mother and before my father in law, both of whom hear much worse than I do, because current science suggests that untreated hearing loss contributes to cognitive decline and dementia. No thank you!

    I'll take the bionic parts.

    #hearingloss #hearingaids #genx

  10. I kept my hearing aids in my school desk. Never took them home.

    When you've never had perfect hearing, you have no comparison point. The loss didn't feel like a loss. The solution didn't feel like a solution. I rejected the thing designed to help me for twelve years.

    lambdalynx.dev/kid-rejects-hea

    #LLHearingMyStory #HearingLoss

  11. What K-Pop Can Teach Every Business About Market Creation

    A woman with hearing aids enjoying Big Ocean performance at Kind Seoul in South Korea. GN Group Here…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #auracast #BigOcean #deaf #GNGroup #hearingloss #K-Pop #KindSeoul #Seoul #SouthKorea
    europesays.com/korea/36552/

  12. Hearing aids in the early 90s were amplifiers. That's it. They made every sound louder, equally.

    The teacher's voice? Louder. The cafeteria with a hundred kids? Also louder. There was no filtering, no way to isolate the voice you needed from the noise around it.

    lambdalynx.dev/how-hearing-aid

    #LLHearingMyStory #HearingLoss

  13. #MénièresDisease #Vertigo #Caffine #Salt #HearingLoss #Balance

    It took three years to get a diagnosis of Menieres--2017 to 2020

    It's been 5 years since I had caffinated coffee.
    It's been 7 years since I shook a salt shaker.
    It's been one day since I stopped decaf coffee.

    I began having severe vertigo last week. 3 very strong episodes, what I scale as 8 out of 10, 10 being a drop attack. Yes, that's just what it sounds like--no warning, no spinning or tilting--just down.

    2 of them happened while I was driving. It really SUCKS and is very scary because even trying to get to the side of the road seems impossible when everything is sliding and tilting and moving up and down.
    One other was milder.

    This week one severe (again while driving!) and three small episodes.

    I had been free of it for
    nearly two full years, after an injection into my right ear drum.

    I'm not fucking around with it. I called my doctor and am scheduling a second injection---the risk is deafness on that ear, whech already can't hear. Th eprevious injection caused no drum tissue damage, so it's worth it for me.

    End of my pissing and moaning. I am very grateful for medicare and secondary insurance.

  14. #MénièresDisease #Vertigo #Caffine #Salt #HearingLoss #Balance

    It took three years to get a diagnosis of Menieres--2017 to 2020

    It's been 5 years since I had caffinated coffee.
    It's been 7 years since I shook a salt shaker.
    It's been one day since I stopped decaf coffee.

    I began having severe vertigo last week. 3 very strong episodes, what I scale as 8 out of 10, 10 being a drop attack. Yes, that's just what it sounds like--no warning, no spinning or tilting--just down.

    2 of them happened while I was driving. It really SUCKS and is very scary because even trying to get to the side of the road seems impossible when everything is sliding and tilting and moving up and down.
    One other was milder.

    This week one severe (again while driving!) and three small episodes.

    I had been free of it for
    nearly two full years, after an injection into my right ear drum.

    I'm not fucking around with it. I called my doctor and am scheduling a second injection---the risk is deafness on that ear, whech already can't hear. Th eprevious injection caused no drum tissue damage, so it's worth it for me.

    End of my pissing and moaning. I am very grateful for medicare and secondary insurance.

  15. "When I get my hearing aids, will I be able to hear you?"

    Six years old. First grade. Teacher across the room. That question was the first time I truly understood I had a hearing loss. Not because someone told me. Because I figured it out myself.

    lambdalynx.dev/hearing-aids-fi

    #LLHearingMyStory #HearingLoss

  16. El Deafo: A Graphic Novel "With the Phonic Ear, she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom" Sale: $13.49 to $1.99 by Cece Bell Rating: 4.7/5 (5,164 Reviews) #graphicnovel #childrensbooks #disability #hearingloss #friendship #books #booksky #memoir #kids #diversity

    El Deafo: A Graphic Novel

  17. El Deafo: A Graphic Novel "With the Phonic Ear, she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom" Sale: $13.49 to $1.99 by Cece Bell Rating: 4.7/5 (5,164 Reviews) #graphicnovel #childrensbooks #disability #hearingloss #friendship #books #booksky #memoir #kids #diversity

    El Deafo: A Graphic Novel

  18. Most people use the word "profound" casually. In audiology, it's the most severe category: you can't hear most sounds without amplification, and even with aids, significant gaps remain.

    I didn't understand what that actually meant until well into adulthood.

    lambdalynx.dev/profound-hearin

    #LLHearingMyStory #HearingLoss

  19. At four, I was dressed in a sombrero and serape, holding a maraca, and had no idea what anyone was singing.

    Even today, with modern hearing aids, I cannot hear lyrics in music. What looked like a distracted kid was the earliest sign of permanent hearing loss.

    That preschool moment wasn't a phase. It was the beginning.

    lambdalynx.dev/preschool-heari

    #LLHearingMyStory #HearingLoss

  20. Tears of Sound: A Young Man's Auditory Awakening

    A 28-year-old man in Los Angeles can hear sounds clearly for the first time after a cochlear implant was activated. He shares his emotional experience.

    #CochlearImplant, #HearingLoss, #LA, #NewSounds, #MedicalBreakthrough

    newsletter.tf/la-man-hears-for

  21. El Deafo: A Graphic Novel "With the Phonic Ear, she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere" Sale: $13.49 to $1.99 by Cece Bell Rating: 4.7/5 (5,163 Reviews) #kidlit #graphicnovel #diversity #disability #friendship #books #booksky #kids #representation #hearingloss

    El Deafo: A Graphic Novel

  22. El Deafo: A Graphic Novel "With the Phonic Ear, she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere" Sale: $13.49 to $1.99 by Cece Bell Rating: 4.7/5 (5,163 Reviews) #kidlit #graphicnovel #diversity #disability #friendship #books #booksky #kids #representation #hearingloss

    El Deafo: A Graphic Novel

  23. 🎉 Wow, the #FDA finally figured out what genes are! 🧬 Their #groundbreaking #approval might just cure your hereditary inability to hear reason. 🤦‍♂️ Let's hope they can gene-edit their way to a solution for selective hearing next. 🙉
    fda.gov/news-events/press-anno #GeneEditing #HearingLoss #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

  24. 🎉 Wow, the #FDA finally figured out what genes are! 🧬 Their #groundbreaking #approval might just cure your hereditary inability to hear reason. 🤦‍♂️ Let's hope they can gene-edit their way to a solution for selective hearing next. 🙉
    fda.gov/news-events/press-anno #GeneEditing #HearingLoss #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

  25. Dozing off with your head on one side while wearing your hearing aids.
    Kids - just don't do it!

    Ouch!

    #HearingAids #HearingLoss

  26. Dozing off with your head on one side while wearing your hearing aids.
    Kids - just don't do it!

    Ouch!

    #HearingAids #HearingLoss

  27. Dozing off with your head on one side while wearing your hearing aids.
    Kids - just don't do it!

    Ouch!

    #HearingAids #HearingLoss