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Hi!

I have a mild/moderate hearing loss, not that bad in general but
there are situations where I really feel the loss and I'd invest in
hearing aids if it could help. So I'm looking for advice from people
who have hearing aids and can tell me how much it helps or not.

My problems are biggest in quiet, hushed conversations, or in dark
places where I lack visual cues (think sleepovers, dim restaurants).
At other times I think my hearing is close enough to normal that aids
probably wouldn't make such a big difference, but it would probably
be worth wearing them anyway if I had them.

The big issue is this: my ears are very sensitive. I am sensory-
defensive in general (it's a subcategory of sensory integration
disorder) and lots of noises annoy me. I'm afraid that even the most
sophisticated programmed aids would amplify things like ticking
clocks, buzzing electricity, etc., and drive me crazy.

Also, if it would amplify the background noises as well, will it
really help me hear better or will it be more of a pain?

Help! I don't know what to do! Is it worth pouring half of my year's
pay into this? (I work part-time while in college) One reason why I'm
considering this now is also because I hope to get married sometime
soon and I'm afraid to enter an intimate relationship with this
problem. I live at home now, and I sometimes have arguments with my
parents (aging and probably also losing their hearing somewhat)
because of misunderstandings, often because someone didn't hear
correctly. Is this a normal part of life that one just needs to
patiently deal with, or is it something that I should invest in
hearing aids to correct?

#538

From: Kimberley J <anij_jnaii@...>
Date: Tue May 13, 2008 6:24 am
Subject: Re: Hi everyone!

anij_jnaii

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http://www.grammart ips.homestead. com/index. html

HI All ,
I'm still here ... just VERY busy !

I'll try to do an update in the next few weeks !!
Hope all is well with everyone !

Blessings,

Kim J

----- Original Message ----
From: tina blue <tblue37@...>
To: deafnessandhearingloss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 12:57:38 PM
Subject: Re: [deafnessandhearingloss] Hi everyone!

I will respond this weekend--I am busy with end of term stuff right now, so I have to wait until the weekend to catch up. It's good to hear from y'all, though!

--Tina

--- On Fri, 4/18/08, Dawn Saunders <Braillesign@ aol.com> wrote:

From: Dawn Saunders <Braillesign@ aol.com>
Subject: [deafnessandhearing loss] Hi everyone!
To: deafnessandhearingl oss@yahoogroups. com
Date: Friday, April 18, 2008, 10:11 AM

I am computer-less these days and doing message boards and emails from my phancy phone. I hope all is well! It seems e have all been very busy, indeed! If you want to see some of what I have been up to lately, go to www.fccdhh.org And click on "Who are we" on the left side of the web page. Scroll about halfway down, and I will be smiling at you!

Have joy!
Dawn

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#537

From: tina blue <tblue37@...>
Date: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:57 pm
Subject: Re: Hi everyone!

tblue37

Online Now

I will respond this weekend--I am busy with end of term stuff right now, so I have to wait until the weekend to catch up. It's good to hear from y'all, though!

--Tina

--- On Fri, 4/18/08, Dawn Saunders <Braillesign@...> wrote:

From: Dawn Saunders <Braillesign@...>
Subject: [deafnessandhearingloss] Hi everyone!
To: deafnessandhearingloss@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, April 18, 2008, 10:11 AM

I am computer-less these days and doing message boards and emails from my phancy phone. I hope all is well! It seems e have all been very busy, indeed! If you want to see some of what I have been up to lately, go to www.fccdhh.org And click on "Who are we" on the left side of the web page. Scroll about halfway down, and I will be smiling at you!

Have joy!
Dawn

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#536

From: Dawn Saunders <Braillesign@...>
Date: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:11 pm
Subject: Hi everyone!

damisa72

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I am computer-less these days and doing message boards and emails from my phancy
phone. I hope all is well! It seems e have all been very busy, indeed! If you
want to see some of what I have been up to lately, go to www.fccdhh.org And
click on "Who are we" on the left side of the web page. Scroll about halfway
down, and I will be smiling at you!

Have joy!
Dawn

#535

From: Doreen Pettipas <dodiepettipas@...>
Date: Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:34 pm
Subject: Re: This group is defunct?

dodiepettipas

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Wow Tina,

You have been a busy woman. Let us know when the articles are posted. Hey, any chance of still getting WWTD (What would Tina do) mugs or things still???? I never did get around to getting one when we were still with IVillage.

I am still plugging along. My girls won't stop growing. Brianna is 13 and is going into high school in the fall. We have a Freshman orientation this afternoon. I am not ready to be the mom of a high school student, but I said I wasn't ready for Middle School 2 years ago.

Brittney is 11 and is currently in 5th grade. She is coping well with her new diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. This is on top of the thyroid and asthma.

Bailey is 8 and in 2nd grade. We are in the process of trying to get an evaluation on her. She has a lot of the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome. I have been trying to get the school district to listen, but it isn't effecting her academics and she doesn't have behavioral issues in school. A friend of mine, whose son was recently diagnosed as Asperger's, said that just means I have been successful at teaching Bailey coping skills. Also, Bailey was already diagnosed as ADHD and is medicated at school. Maybe I should just send her to school unmedicated a few times to show them what she is really like, lol. I just want my mother's intuition validated. This child is not a normal 8 yr old child. Tantrums and meltdowns with no warning aren't normal. We have tried behavior modification. This works for a few days to a week, then the novelty wears off.

Ok, now I will quit ranting.

My husband was laid off from his job January 3rd. He was driving lumber delivery mainly going to construction sites. No one is building, so there are no deliveries to be made. He got fed up with the wait and decided to go back to long haul truck driving. He did his orientation week with Gordon Trucking 2 weeks ago. Last week and this week he is driving. They seem to be keeping him busy. He should be home the end of this week for a couple of days.

It was nice when he was laid off. He cooked and did dishes. Now my 3 month vacation from cooking and dishes is over. I hate cooking. But at least the kids don't care if it came out of a box, lol.

That's my update.

Dodie

----- Original Message ----
From: tina blue <tblue37@...>
To: deafnessandhearingloss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 3:18:03 PM
Subject: Re: [deafnessandhearingloss] This group is defunct?

Not defunct--just not all that active. We are busy women, so we tend to fall away sometimes for a while. Glad to hear from you, though, Laura! Maybe we can get the others back again, too.

BTW, I have lots of articles planned for my site, but I can't post them just yet because I am having all my sites professionally redesigned to include Google Ads. I have been accepted by Google Ads and maybe can make a bit of money from my sites, since counting all my sites together I actually have millions of readers worldwide. I also plan to start an online "store" where I can sell products (local and as an affiliate for bigger companies). Fortunately, my professional web redesign won't cost me, since a friend (a former student whom I tutored through his college career) won't let me pay for it. I made him promise, though, to accept a small percentage of my after-tax sales once we get it all off the ground.

I am also planning to produce many ebooks for people to purchase and download from my sites--mainly on grammar and usage, essay writing, reading skills, child-rearing, and such. Eventually, once I get together the production capacity, I also plan to make print versions of some of the books. I get so many requests for ebooks and print versions of these things that I figure that, with my large reader base, I probably can make some money. Also, I can produce one or more ebooks in a single day. For example, although I plan to revise and expand it this summer, my 77-page grammar handbook took me just 6 hours to write. I wrote it overnight in 1984, as a handbook for my own students.

I am going to sell totes made by a woman here in Lawrence, a line of specialty cards designed and made by a 24-year-old artist here who used to be a child in my daycare, and things like that. I also hope to hook up with major companies whose products I believe in as an affiliate for their products. I am already an affiliate for WhiteSmoke, a program that helps people with their writing. It is like an enhanced Word grammar and spelling program, but its different versions also include templates for various kinds of writing--legal, medical, business, etc.

I occasionally also get requests from businesses to put text link ads on my articles when they are related to the product. I only have 4 or 5 of those so far, but I get paid $200 each time a company does that, and I am hoping that as more marketing people see these ads, they will contact me with requests for more products.

Anyway, my plan is to become a multimillionaire within the next 5 years. We will see whether it works, but I honestly believe I can do it, since I already have the readership to reach millions of people.

I write and post my articles because I love to, but if I can also make significant money from my sites, I would be delighted! I have so many people I love and want to help that I have decided that I need to become wealthy enough to do that. I also have other projects I want to fund.

For example, if I can succeed in this, one of my intentions is to use some of the money to set up a hearing help aid fund for people who need aids but can't afford them. Right now I need new aids desperately myself, but I can't afford them because I used all my spare money to support my daughter in her last year of med school. She needed help with rent and bills, as well as having to pay for trips all over the eastern coast to interview for her residency. I ended up paying $10,000 over a 4-month period to keep her afloat, plus another couple thousand to help my son and his fianc�e out during some rough financial patches they sufffered last year.

I live very frugally myself, so although I don't make that much money (in fact, until 3 1/2 years ago, I made less than $20,000 a year!), I have been able to help them since I have been doing better with my freelance writing and editing, plus tutoring, on top of the salary I now get for the full-time lecturer position I was given 3 years ago at KU. Prior to that they had no full-time salaried adjunct positions in my department, so I was a part-time adjunct lecturer, as were all the others. But the full-time position gives me not just a bit more money, but also a bit of security, since it is a 3-year appointment rather than a 1-year, and I just got renewed for the next 3 years (YAY!).

Another thing I hope to do if I make some real money is to set up a fund at my vet's office to help people who can't afford it to pay for necessary treatment for beloved pets. I have already been doing that for a couple of people I know whenever I can afford to, but I have such a limited capacity to do that right now, and I want to be able to help more. I remember what it was like to need to get vet care for beloved pets but not have any money. Fortunately, my vet was always willing to let me run a tab and pay it off in small increments, which is why I would set up such a fund with that clinic specifically. Right now, for example, I am slowly paying down a $1000 vet bill because I got exploratory surgery for my 15-year-old cat Lila. Turns out that she didn't have cancer as we feared, but rather treatable inflammatory bowel syndrome. If I had just assumed cancer and had her put to sleep, which was one of the options presented to me, I would have missed out on perhaps many more years of her loving companionship, but since my vet lets me pay large bills over longer periods, I was able to get the exploratory surgery for her. I want other pet owners to be able to do this sort of thing rather than giving up and just letting a pet die.

I also want to be able to make larger donations than I presently do to the local Humane Society and also to the rescue society in Leawood, Kansas, where I got one of my current three kitties.

Unfortunately, I have been drastically slowed down this past year because the pain meds I have been taking for ruptured discs have made me very sick and have drained my energy. It was like having mono! I would sleep for 12 hours or more, work 20 minutes, then have to take a two-hour nap! I took myself off the strongest of the meds (Fentanyl�80 times stronger than morphine!) early in February. (I went through some very unpleasant opiate withdrawal symptoms.) I have spent the past several weeks since then catching up on work I let slide during that time. I am still using hydrocodone for the pain, but since my discs are better (not "good"--but much better), I can manage with just the hydrocodone, and fortunately, it doesn't affect me as badly as the Fentanyl did.

So that's where I am right now and what I am doing. How about the rest of you folks? Wanna check in and catch us all up on what you are doing and how you are doing? I miss my friends on this board, and now that I have more than a few minutes at a time of functioning in me, I can pick up again on old activities that I had to let slide because of illness and lack of energy.

(Oh, and BTW, since the Fentanyl made me so sick, I have also lost 35 pounds over the last 10 months. I sure didn't like being sick all the time, but since I had gotten quite fat, I am glad to have those pounds off me. I am still fat and hope to lose another 50 pounds, but I weigh less now than I have in maybe 7 or 8 years!)

--Tina

readerwoman5552 <readerwoman@ gmail.com> wrote:

Haven't seen any posts except spam lately, but in case there IS
someone out there still getting message emails - I wanted to tell you
about another group I recently joined - Bella Online
(www.Bellaonline. com) it is a women's site, like Ivillage, but is so
user friendly and so easy to get involved with that I thought I'd
share it...
their deafies page is at:

http://deafness. bellaonline. com/Site. asp
and their discussion forum at:

http://forums. bellaonline. com/ubbthreads. php?ubb=postlist &Board=207

I have taken the hat of Senior Issues editor (the deafness page
already being taken...) so you can find me at:

http://www.bellaonl ine.com/site/ seniorissues

Hope to see some of you around! I am on the forums as "Laura-Senior-
Issues"
Laura (formerly loluv, and cl-loluv of the deaf/hard of hearing
Ivillage site!)

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#534

From: tina blue <tblue37@...>
Date: Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:18 pm
Subject: Re: This group is defunct?

tblue37

Online Now

Not defunct--just not all that active. We are busy women, so we tend to fall away sometimes for a while. Glad to hear from you, though, Laura! Maybe we can get the others back again, too.

I also want to be able to make larger donations than I presently do to the local Humane Society and also to the rescue society in Leawood, Kansas, where I got one of my current three kitties.

--Tina

readerwoman5552 <readerwoman@...> wrote:

Haven't seen any posts except spam lately, but in case there IS
someone out there still getting message emails - I wanted to tell you
about another group I recently joined - Bella Online
(www.Bellaonline.com) it is a women's site, like Ivillage, but is so
user friendly and so easy to get involved with that I thought I'd
share it...
their deafies page is at:

http://deafness.bellaonline.com/Site.asp
and their discussion forum at:

http://forums.bellaonline.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=207

I have taken the hat of Senior Issues editor (the deafness page
already being taken...) so you can find me at:

http://www.bellaonline.com/site/seniorissues

Hope to see some of you around! I am on the forums as "Laura-Senior-
Issues"
Laura (formerly loluv, and cl-loluv of the deaf/hard of hearing
Ivillage site!)

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#533

From: "readerwoman5552" <readerwoman@...>
Date: Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:28 pm
Subject: This group is defunct?

readerwoman5552

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Haven't seen any posts except spam lately, but in case there IS
someone out there still getting message emails - I wanted to tell you
about another group I recently joined - Bella Online
(www.Bellaonline.com) it is a women's site, like Ivillage, but is so
user friendly and so easy to get involved with that I thought I'd
share it...
their deafies page is at:

http://deafness.bellaonline.com/Site.asp
and their discussion forum at:

http://forums.bellaonline.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=207

I have taken the hat of Senior Issues editor (the deafness page
already being taken...) so you can find me at:

http://www.bellaonline.com/site/seniorissues

Hope to see some of you around! I am on the forums as "Laura-Senior-
Issues"
Laura (formerly loluv, and cl-loluv of the deaf/hard of hearing
Ivillage site!)

#532

From: "dgthgngyb" <dgthgngyb@...>
Date: Tue Apr 8, 2008 11:20 am
Subject: You've received a private message from a friend!

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#531

From: "matchbpufriends" <matchbpufriends@...>
Date: Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:34 pm
Subject: You have received a NEW friend request!

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#530

From: "privatehgmsg" <privatehgmsg@...>
Date: Thu Feb 7, 2008 10:44 pm
Subject: You've received a private message from a friend!

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#529

From: "matchattfriends" <matchattfriends@...>
Date: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:12 am
Subject: I have added you to my friends network today!

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#528

From: "girlhxblog" <girlhxblog@...>
Date: Tue Jan 8, 2008 12:32 pm
Subject: Youve received a private message from a friend!

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#527

From: "matchattfriends" <matchattfriends@...>
Date: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:59 pm
Subject: You have received a NEW friend request!

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#526

From: "girlhxblog" <girlhxblog@...>
Date: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:18 am
Subject: You've received a private message from a friend!

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#525

From: "happy_boar59" <happy_boar59@...>
Date: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:35 pm
Subject: Re: You've received a private message from a friend!

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--- In deafnessandhearingloss@yahoogroups.com, "girlazblog"
<girlazblog@...> wrote:
>
> I read your profile today, I thought I would drop you a line and hope
to become your friend! Check my personal page here:
> http://girldfblog.googlepages.com/girlrider.htm
>
Thanks for the mail girlaz, are you in canada?

#524

From: "girlazblog" <girlazblog@...>
Date: Fri Nov 9, 2007 12:09 pm
Subject: You've received a private message from a friend!

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#523

From: Braillesign@...
Date: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:24 pm
Subject: Re: Check out this sincredibly ignorant woman!

damisa72

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Ugh, Tina, I soooo feel your pain. I was reading about some students at RIT who want to make braille clothing labels (um, they already exist) and someone commented on their blog that the web site was not accessible... Some ignoramus actually posted that it didn't matter because blind people can't use computers. GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY! It always amazes me how much people don't know... *shakes head*

Have joy!

Dawn

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#522

From: tina blue <tblue37@...>
Date: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:14 pm
Subject: Re: Check out this sincredibly ignorant woman!

tblue37

Online Now

Interestingly, neither of my comments about deafness not being a "severe illness" or a "tragedy" and deaf children not being a "burden" to their parents was allowed to be posted in the comment section for that essay. I am thoroughly disgusted.

Tina Blue <tblue37@...> wrote:

I was reading an essay on The Huffington Post, a liberal news blog I vist each day. The writer displayed the most appallingly ignorant attitude toward deafness (as well as toward developmental disabilities). I read all 78 comments posted on there, too, and not one person--all "hearies" I assume--noticed the obnoxious labeling of deafness as a "severe illness" or her assumption that having such a "special needs" child must be a crushing burden and atragedy for the child's mother (Beverly Sills, the famous opera singer). I wrote a couple of searing comments, but they haven't shown up there yet. Let me share a few excerpts from the essay:

I can't get something I read about Beverly Sills out of my head. She was once asked if she was happy. "I've never considered myself a happy woman," she said. "How could I, with all that's happened to me. But I'm a cheerful woman."

What an incredibly insightful and wise answer to the question. True her life was full of traumas and tragedies, but she seemed to be able to transcend that and to come up with her own coping mechanism. I can't get out of my mind how useful her view is for the rest of us.

. . .

She had her share of tragedies. But listening to her misfortunes, which included a severely deaf daughter (she could never hear her mother sing) and a severely retarded son, may have made the listener feel woefully un-entitled to relate their own troubles.

. . . In my analysis, Sills knew that she could not call herself happy as long as her children were so severely ill. She knew how people would be distracted by this. But she knew she had personal needs -- a life beyond a persona as a mother of children with special needs. . . . -- something other than a mother with a crushing personal burden.

Here is the link in case you want to read the essay yourself. The essay is actually about happiness vs. cheerfulness, and the comments about Beverly Sills' deaf daughter and "retarded" son were made almost in passing, as if everyone would automatically agree with the writer's assessment that these children were "severely ill" and a terrible burden to the mother, sufficient to prevent her from finding hppiness in her life.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mona-ackerman/dr-mona-knows_b_59212.html?load=1&page=1#comments

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#521

From: carlos castro <happy_boar59@...>
Date: Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:32 pm
Subject: Re: Thanks for the welcome

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Thanks for the info Kimberley, I will check with my service provider in Canada. I know I have a fax line tied up with my phone already. So it is just a question of ask. There are some programs too I've been told, called nextel, where you can receive and make calls. Does anybody tried this one? Thanks in advance for the info

Kimberley J <anij_jnaii@...> wrote:

I have a single line for both my TTY and my amplified phone - I subscribe to a "teen ring" or "identi-ring" service for a few dollars a month that lets me know if the incoming call is TTY or voice. I also have a TTY/voice answering machine.
All of my Alerting devices are "Sonic Alert" brand and I LOVE them !!!

Blessings,

Kim J

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----- Original Message ----
From: happy_boar59 <happy_boar59@yahoo.ca>
To: deafnessandhearingloss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 11:00:10 AM
Subject: [deafnessandhearingloss] Thanks for the welcome

I a glad to be in this group and learn coping strategies. Yeah, hearing
the phone, or the kettle, and the alarm clock has become a thing of the
past for me. Although, by what I read it does not have to be so.
Question, I have a regular phone (analog) and also a TTY phone, can the
2 co-exist?, meaning can I have both phones on the same line. Also,
best (or worst) experiences with cell phones. Thank you in advance for
your info

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#520

From: "Tina Blue" <tblue37@...>
Date: Sun Aug 12, 2007 1:38 am
Subject: Check out this sincredibly ignorant woman!

tblue37

Online Now

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mona-ackerman/dr-mona-knows_b_59212.html?load=1&page=1#comments

I was reading an essay on The Huffington Post, a liberal news blog I vist each day. The writer displayed the most appallingly ignorant attitude toward deafness (as well as toward developmental disabilities). I read all 78 comments posted on there, too, and not one person--all "hearies" I assume--noticed the obnoxious labeling of deafness as a "severe illness" or her assumption that having such a "special needs" child must be a crushing burden and atragedy for the child's mother (Beverly Sills, the famous opera singer). I wrote a couple of searing comments, but they haven't shown up there yet. Let me share a few excerpts from the essay:

I can't get something I read about Beverly Sills out of my head. She was once asked if she was happy. "I've never considered myself a happy woman," she said. "How could I, with all that's happened to me. But I'm a cheerful woman."

What an incredibly insightful and wise answer to the question. True her life was full of traumas and tragedies, but she seemed to be able to transcend that and to come up with her own coping mechanism. I can't get out of my mind how useful her view is for the rest of us.

. . .

She had her share of tragedies. But listening to her misfortunes, which included a severely deaf daughter (she could never hear her mother sing) and a severely retarded son, may have made the listener feel woefully un-entitled to relate their own troubles.

. . . In my analysis, Sills knew that she could not call herself happy as long as her children were so severely ill. She knew how people would be distracted by this. But she knew she had personal needs -- a life beyond a persona as a mother of children with special needs. . . . -- something other than a mother with a crushing personal burden.

Here is the link in case you want to read the essay yourself. The essay is actually about happiness vs. cheerfulness, and the comments about Beverly Sills' deaf daughter and "retarded" son were made almost in passing, as if everyone would automatically agree with the writer's assessment that these children were "severely ill" and a terrible burden to the mother, sufficient to prevent her from finding hppiness in her life.

#519

From: tina blue <tblue37@...>
Date: Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:49 am
Subject: Re: Update !! (finally)

tblue37

Online Now

Welcome back, Kim--

So sorry about your accident.

Yep we lost the iVillage board, but that might be better in the long run. It's an inconvenient site to use--this one is much easier. And this one lets us get our messages by email. But somehow we all ended up over on iVillage instead for the past year, so this one faded away. Now we are back together here on Yahoo.

As for the HA--I never wear mine round the hosue unless I am watching TV. In fact, I never wear it at all unless I am teaching, in a conference with a student or a meeting with colleagues, or involved in conversations with others (except for a couple of close friends who seak clearly enough for me to ehar without them).

I don't even wear my HAs while shopping or driving. I don't like the background noise, and I don't like having something stuck inside my ear.

Kimberley J <anij_jnaii@...> wrote:

Hi everyone ... I was going to post this over on iVillage ... but.

Here's a brief update on me for the last (yikes) year !!!

I've been sooooo busy I have no idea where the time has gone.

I started Seminary this past September - which has been an AWESOME experience.
I was very fortunate to have a really wonderful DS co-ordinator (who happens to be Deaf). School went very well, I was able to get VTNs - volunteer notetakers for any classes I wanted, and I ASL interpreters for my all-day classes, and intensive summer course. All in all, after I learned what I was able to request ( I've never had access to DS before) it went really well. As part of my schooling I have a Ministry Placement (like an internship/apprenticeship) which was at my home parish - I have learned sooo much.

Some of you might know that I was in a car accident a few years back ... and I am still recovering from it ( I have back, neck and shoulder injuries) - because I also sign ... that's been very hard - both socially ( it hurts to sign, so I've stopped going to the Deaf events because it just hurts sooooo bad to chat) and physically. One foot in front of the other.

Hearing wise ... things are basically the same ... I've gotten rather lazy about wearing my HA ... mostly because I'm not working right now - and I don't mind the world being a bit quieter !! ( ok , and I don't care for the new mould I got ... and I haven't got it to get another one ... that doesn't help much either lol )

anyways ... that's this past year in a nutshell.

oh and Dawn ... After a HUGE break ( life happened what can I say) ... I'm back at learning tactile grade 2 braille. I'm through the first few chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - YIPPY !!!

Blessings,

Kim J (aka Anij on iVillage)

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#518

From: Kimberley J <anij_jnaii@...>
Date: Thu Aug 9, 2007 10:13 pm
Subject: Re: Thanks for the welcome

anij_jnaii

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I have a single line for both my TTY and my amplified phone - I subscribe to a "teen ring" or "identi-ring" service for a few dollars a month that lets me know if the incoming call is TTY or voice. I also have a TTY/voice answering machine.
All of my Alerting devices are "Sonic Alert" brand and I LOVE them !!!

Blessings,

Kim J

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----- Original Message ----
From: happy_boar59 <happy_boar59@...>
To: deafnessandhearingloss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 11:00:10 AM
Subject: [deafnessandhearingloss] Thanks for the welcome

I a glad to be in this group and learn coping strategies. Yeah, hearing
the phone, or the kettle, and the alarm clock has become a thing of the
past for me. Although, by what I read it does not have to be so.
Question, I have a regular phone (analog) and also a TTY phone, can the
2 co-exist?, meaning can I have both phones on the same line. Also,
best (or worst) experiences with cell phones. Thank you in advance for
your info

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#517

From: Braillesign@...
Date: Thu Aug 9, 2007 4:30 pm
Subject: Re:HOH in Canada

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Welcome to the group!

As Tina said, there are many in this group who are not signers. I happen to be the odd "hearie" who does! At any rate, I don't know how Canada is set up, but in my state (Florida), many of the Deaf Service Centers offer speech/lipreading courses for people who lose their hearing later in life. There are also some resources available in CD-Rom, DVD, etc format. Harris Communications (www.harriscomm.com), I believe, has some that you can purchase. Finally, you may find some good information from a group like the Association of Late-Deafened Adults (http://www.alda.org/).

As Tina mentioned, I am a former teacher of children who are deaf-blind), but I am also the resident "Google queen). It just so happened that most of that information was already in my head (my present position makes it necessary), but if you need any other resources, feel free to let me know and I will be happy to help you find them.

Have joy!
Dawn (braillesign)

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#516

From: "happy_boar59" <happy_boar59@...>
Date: Thu Aug 9, 2007 4:00 pm
Subject: Thanks for the welcome

happy_boar59

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I a glad to be in this group and learn coping strategies. Yeah, hearing
the phone, or the kettle, and the alarm clock has become a thing of the
past for me. Although, by what I read it does not have to be so.
Question, I have a regular phone (analog) and also a TTY phone, can the
2 co-exist?, meaning can I have both phones on the same line. Also,
best (or worst) experiences with cell phones. Thank you in advance for
your info

#515

From: Kimberley J <anij_jnaii@...>
Date: Thu Aug 9, 2007 3:02 pm
Subject: Update !! (finally)

anij_jnaii

Online Now

www.our-sma-angels.com www.smasupport.com

Hi everyone ... I was going to post this over on iVillage ... but.

Here's a brief update on me for the last (yikes) year !!!

I've been sooooo busy I have no idea where the time has gone.

I started Seminary this past September - which has been an AWESOME experience.
I was very fortunate to have a really wonderful DS co-ordinator (who happens to be Deaf). School went very well, I was able to get VTNs - volunteer notetakers for any classes I wanted, and I ASL interpreters for my all-day classes, and intensive summer course. All in all, after I learned what I was able to request ( I've never had access to DS before) it went really well. As part of my schooling I have a Ministry Placement (like an internship/apprenticeship) which was at my home parish - I have learned sooo much.

Some of you might know that I was in a car accident a few years back ... and I am still recovering from it ( I have back, neck and shoulder injuries) - because I also sign ... that's been very hard - both socially ( it hurts to sign, so I've stopped going to the Deaf events because it just hurts sooooo bad to chat) and physically. One foot in front of the other.

Hearing wise ... things are basically the same ... I've gotten rather lazy about wearing my HA ... mostly because I'm not working right now - and I don't mind the world being a bit quieter !! ( ok , and I don't care for the new mould I got ... and I haven't got it to get another one ... that doesn't help much either lol )

anyways ... that's this past year in a nutshell.

oh and Dawn ... After a HUGE break ( life happened what can I say) ... I'm back at learning tactile grade 2 braille. I'm through the first few chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - YIPPY !!!

Blessings,

Kim J (aka Anij on iVillage)

Help cure SMA in 2007

www.our-sma-angels.com/colesquilts/

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#514

From: Kimberley J <anij_jnaii@...>
Date: Thu Aug 9, 2007 2:47 pm
Subject: Re: HOH in Canada

anij_jnaii

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Hi, and welcome !!

I'm in MB

I was born with profound SSD (Single Sided Deafness) - and now have mild/mod (flux) loss on my 'hearing' side.
For the most part I communicate orally , however I do also use ASL ( and I use ASL/English interpreters for some of my college Classes)

For myself, I have set my home up to be a "deaf house" ... by that I mean that I use signallers (flashing lights and a "sonic boom" alarm clock. I have an amplified phone as well as a TTY etc.) This works for me and is by far the least stressful - after all your home is suppose to be were you're MOST relaxed ... and for me 'listening' is far from relaxing.

If you are interested in learning more Speech Readings skills, or ASL there are a number of organizations across Canada that can assist you - often free of charge.

Blessings,

Kim J

Help cure SMA in 2007

www.our-sma-angels.com www.smasupport.com

www.our-sma-angels.com/colesquilts/

----- Original Message ----
From: happy_boar59 <happy_boar59@...>
To: deafnessandhearingloss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 12:46:30 AM
Subject: [deafnessandhearingloss] HOH in Canada

Hello everybody! glad to join this group. I have nerve hearing loss.
But it came late in life, hence no signing. Hope to pick up some tips
to improve communications, and of course meet new people online. Take
care now

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#513

From: tina blue <tblue37@...>
Date: Thu Aug 9, 2007 8:43 am
Subject: Re: HOH in Canada

tblue37

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Hi,

And welcome to our group.

Many of us don't sign either. I am 57 in 1 1/2 weeks, and I never learned to sign. My sister Linda (age 54), Charvragma in this group, though she doesn't come around much to post these days, is even deafer than I am, but she doesn't sign either. Our youngest sister Carol (age 53--not a member) also doesn't sign.

We do have some signers on this board though--and one of them isn't even deaf or HoH! (That's Dawn--Braillesign--who was a teacher for deaf and blind children.)

Have you ever been to my deaf/HoH website? If not, you can find it at

_I'm Listening as Hard as I Can!_:

Again, welcome! Sometimes we members get busy and things get slow around here, but sometimes they are hopping.

--Tina

happy_boar59 <happy_boar59@...> wrote:

Hello everybody! glad to join this group. I have nerve hearing loss.
But it came late in life, hence no signing. Hope to pick up some tips
to improve communications, and of course meet new people online. Take
care now

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#512

From: "happy_boar59" <happy_boar59@...>
Date: Thu Aug 9, 2007 5:46 am
Subject: HOH in Canada

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Hello everybody! glad to join this group. I have nerve hearing loss.
But it came late in life, hence no signing. Hope to pick up some tips
to improve communications, and of course meet new people online. Take
care now

#511

From: Braillesign@...
Date: Sun Aug 5, 2007 10:41 pm
Subject: Re: Real people

damisa72

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I have had quite a few Internet friendships turn into RL friendships -- especially with my Duran Duran communities (yes, I am a member of multiple DD communities). We end up meeting each other before or after shows. During the last show, we met each other smack dab in the middle of the show -- which was brilliant!

Have joy -- real people!

Dawn

P.S. I changed the name of the thread because, well, it's a done deal...

Takes two to tango, and if one doesn't want to dance no sense whirling across the room."

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#510

From: Braillesign@...
Date: Sat Aug 4, 2007 10:42 pm
Subject: Re: Well, it's finally closing

damisa72

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