Love & Patience
Until I met Dave in 1998, I’d never really been around anyone with a hearing loss.  As far as I know, nobody I went to school with was hard of hearing.  All of my friends and family members had regular hearing, except my paternal grandmother (who died when I was around 12) and one of my cousins.  So I grew up interacting with ‘hearing people’ and consequently depending on them to fill in the gaps if I missed something. My hearing loss didn’t really affect my dating life.  I usually didn’t even mention it until my hearing aid would inevitably squeal and give me away.  I did the regular things people did on dates – went dancing, went to movies, to parties

HLAA Convention in Nashville, June 18-21
The Hearing Loss Association of America is having its annual convention this month, June 18-21, in Nashville, Tennessee.  Dave and I are both HLAA members but we’ve never been to an HLAA convention.  We decided to splurge and attend this one…we really can’t afford it but we hav

Sick Hearing
So last week my hearing got really weird.  I realized things were sounding really loud again and I was tempted to turn down my volume.  I thought, “Oh, maybe this new T-Mic is going out like the other one” and switched it with one of my back-ups.  Nah, everything still sounded the same (and weird). As [...]

Going to Court (with cochlear implants)
One afternoon in April, Dave brought the mail in and began sifting through the envelopes.  Then he froze, staring at one envelope in particular and murmuring “Uh oh” under his breath. “What?  What’s wrong, what is it?”  Sometimes Dave can be dramatic but usually a comment like that from him is very much warranted, so I [...]

Troubleshooting
For the past few weeks, the weirdest thing was happening with my hearing. Everything was starting to sound loud…painfully loud. When my CIs get programmed, the volume is at the 12:00 position…that is 0, essentially. I turn it to the left to decrease volume, to the right to increase it. I [...]