hearing loss

[boford]

I was posting on another message board related to hearing loss and just started thinking while i like to say i can hear 100% with the hearing aid on i cant and it just started to get to me. Now for the past 3 years since i found out about my hearing loss ive learn to deal with it same way i guess i learn to deal with not understanding some stuff before i found out but every time i start to think about it it gets to me and even more so i guess right now cause im trying to see whats all out there and what can help me out. It just sucks some times when your having to strugle to understand whats going on and dont understand everything. Now i dont strugle as much as i did before i got my hearing aid. When i first got my hearing aid my parents use to always tell me they had a hard time understanding me cause i would talk to quite ppl still tell me that sometimes though i think im talking just fine and it prodly does sound just fine to me cause im incontrol of the vol on the hearing aid . Ya it has it advantages to being incontrol of the hearing aid like when your at home and alot of ppl are around and you just want some peace and quite just flip a switch and i cant hear jack . Did that last christmas was tired and no bedroom to go to at the time so just lay down on the couch and turn on the the t-coil switch it killed the mic on the hearing aid. For all ya that dont know what t-coil is it allows me direct ascess to a source basicly like say on a phone what it does is pick up the electronic signal and then turns it into stuff i can understand ya it a prety cool little thing only thing is you dont want to get to close to something like a plug outlit or you will get aloud humming noise cause it picking up stuff from it. But anyways it just gets to me everyonce in a while and i dont even want to know what it would be like if i couldnt hear at all . Now i do bleave that the lord has something great plan for me and will use my hearing loss to reach other ppl

 

[Judy]

Hi boford,
May I ask what was the cause of your hearing loss?

I broke one of my ear drums when I was young, and it wasn't until I was in my late 30s that a Doctor said that he could fix it without surgery. It was the weirdest thing, the Doctor ask me if I smoked (which at the time I did) and to give him a cigarette so I did... then he took a tool and irritated the outer rim of the hole in my ear drum. Then he put some kind of acid on the piece of cigarette paper and placed it in the ear canal and within a week or two the skin grew back over.
I remember the drive home, I could hear some noise that I couldn't figure out what it was. Then I realized my window was down just a crack and I was hearing the wind blowing in the window for the first time..

Praise God for hearing aids and glasses...etc

 

[Relic]

...Ya it has it advantages to being incontrol of the hearing aid like when your at home and alot of ppl are around and you just want some peace and quite just flip a switch and i cant hear jack...


...Now i do bleave that the lord has something great plan for me and will use my hearing loss to reach other ppl

boford, The Lord will provide a way for you to adjust. If you think about it... there are some advantages to not being able to hear 100%. When I was a child I had lost about 20% of the hearing in my right ear, by the time I was an adult, I lost 50% hearing in that ear. When I was a child I had been diagnosed with what is called a perforated ear drum. Way back in the mid 50's, when they didn't have all the technologies they do now, my doctor took a tip of the little finger a surgical rubber glove and placed it over the hole in my ear drum. For my whole life it was there and all it did was to protect my ear drum from getting more infections. It did nothing to improve the hearing. And I couldn't enjoy swimming, nor could I ever get not even one drop of water in that ear. I would end up in severe pain and infection.

One time, just a few years ago, my ear popped and my hearing go so loud it was almost like I had super hearing. I don't know what happened, it only lasted for a few minutes. and it only happened twice in my life within a couple of weeks apart. But I'm glad it didn't stay because my hearing was so loud, everything was just too much. I have no idea what that was. But anyway, after a couple of minutes my hearing went back to being half deaf in that ear. So I learned how to cope. And for my whole life, I even went without the benefit of swimming because ear plugs were no good they hurt my ear to wear them. And as I grew older nothing changed except the patch disintegrated and I now have a bigger hole in my ear drum and my hearing is just awful in that ear. When I am laying on my good ear, I can't even hear the phone ring or the clock next to me, I can't hear the ticking of it. So I have learned to live with it. And you know what.... Sometimes I'm grateful to God for the lack of hearing in that ear, because, ... I have these new neighbors that moved in last fall, these new neighbors do nothing but cuss every other word they say. Every one in the family cusses foulness, even the children! :-? So then being half deaf like I am, if I am at a distance from them and I'm inside my home with the windows open, I can't hear them clearly. It's all muffled and I'm glad because I know, they are cussing up a storm and I really don't want to hear that. I'd rather it be muffled. And I thank God for that.


It is great that you are looking forward to using your hearing loss as a means to help other people. Yes boford, there ARE many members in the body of Christ, each with their own God given Gift. We are not all the same for a reason. And so, all we can do, is to take our weakness and let Jesus be our strength. Go with the gift God gave you. It's all for the glory of God. We take our weaknesses , give them over to Jesus, and He turns them into Glory for God. May the Lord continue to bless you in your walk with Him. Use what you have for the positive. That's great. You are making lemonade out of the lemon. Keep having a positive outlook and God will continue to bless you with more good thoughts about situations in life. We are all a work in progess.

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Judy, Wow! That is a very strange story that happened to you. Amazing!


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[boford]

left ear was nerve damage and it gradly went bad was born that way. Right ear nobody has a clue yet whats wrong other then i have a hearing loss 75% gone in the right and left ear 100% gone . At the last time i went to the doc they told hearing aid wouldnt fix the left ear that was about 3 years ago also that was when they told me im loosing hearing in the right. At one time i did have a hearing aid for my left ear go way back in elementry school i dont rember the grade or age or anything but it broke on me and we never did anything about it to get it fix and i just lived with it. My hearing got to the point about 3 years ago that i felt it was time to go get it check out again and see whats going on. I could be sitting in the living room trying to watch tv and have to be right infront of the tv with it loud just to be able to somewhat make out what was said if i where to sit back in a chair all the stuff would just blend intogether. Now ive never learn how to follow closed caption it just moves way to fast for me