Comments on: Deaf Sentence

By: trish

trish — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:50:16 +0000

Yeah, Carrie, eight hours didn’t give you enough of a chance to get annoyed by my blank looks. Back in the 80′s there was a button that said, “I’m not deaf, I’m just ignoring you.” My friends saw that and laughed because the opposite is true for me. I’m really deaf and not ignoring you. Slumber parties were the worst when it was time to sleep (and no one went to sleep)… I can hear people a lot better when the lights are on and I can see faces.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:12:39 +0000

Trish, I didn’t know you struggled with hearing loss. I guess it never came up in our eight hours together! I wish we lived closer!!

By: trish

trish — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:19:24 +0000

Hey Tana, that’s funny! I have tons of stories like that too. I had an art teacher who had the constant ringing in her ears, too. She was extremely talented, kinda old and had a great memory… she even recognized me years after I took her class. I remember we used to laugh with our eyes whenever she made a mistake of thinking a student said something and it was obvious that she hadn’t heard correctly. So I can dish it out, too. I was intrigued about the Lip Reading class as a solution… that might be a good thing for your husband. I definitely want to take a class like that now.

By: Tana Draper

Tana Draper — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:55:41 +0000

I will have to check this out. My husband has hearing problems but hearing aids do not help. He has a constant ring or high pitch in his ear all the time so he has a really hard time. They think that it happened when he had meningitis. We had a customercall us once and my husband thought he said his name was Harry (hairy) Lamb… Turns out his name was really Carrey Gragham. We have lots in funny stories. Poor guy!