Excellent Peter
Someone here recommended a book that changed my life.
HEAR & BEYOND
Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss
Shari Eberts
Gael Hannan
The change? I felt I was a victim being hard of hearing. The book gave me tools to use so I might communicate better.
I read it, on your recommendation. Loads of useful tips
Same hear with the recommendation of Hear and Beyond. Thank you OP!
I look at jury duty as a responsibility that I need to honor.
I see jury duty something i am no longer capable of doing properly
Then you shouldn’t do it.
Many years ago, l received a jury summons and reported for duty. At the courtroom, l asked the judge if he can turn up the sound system a bit doing the jury selection process and they accepted me. I was expecting to be an jury and the defense party and Judge decided to make me an alternative juror so they told me l can leave the courtroom. I wasn’t happy with the process because l am a very good lip reader. Never again will l be an juror. I answered all the juror questions in the jury selection process.
LOL! I’m always translating TV shows for normal-hearing hubs here - who goes CRAZY if he hears a tiny tinkling bell on a doodad I bought in Japan to decorate my purse handle.
MORE POWER TO YOU!
I can totally get the uninformed BIAS in a courtroom setting. Defense and prosecutor won’t even risk a shadow of a doubt about folks who use hearing devices and/or read lips, but ironically, they don’t test the hearing of ALL the jury candidates, now do they?
Ah, I was GLAD to have a doctor’s note put in my file decades ago saying “This gal’s got cinderblock ears that’ll only get worse. On top of which, she’s cranky and opinionated and will sway your other jurors based on what she thinks she’s heard.”
That’s all it took. I never got another juror notice in the mail again - across 3 states and 30+ years, LOL! Why tell anyone about Roger devices? They’d only be Doubting Thomases about the power of these devices.
Is any young adult in here suffering from hearing loss. I am looking to connect with others!
It’s best book I’ve read.
Other books are often old and talk in code
Another good book is Volume Control. David Owen. Interesting writer
DaveL
Hope your well.This is a Hearing Community to share thoughts on Hearing Aids and how we can ease the burden of hearing loss as well as living with the terrible “Tinnitus” of which there is no cure.Some of us have loss and “T” through Injuries,Age,Medication Side Effects etc but thankfully Hearing Aid Manufacturers have made at least my life easier with New Technology HA and Receivers.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears my voice, I will open the door and come in and I will sup with him and he with me. Revelation 3:20.
Yes definitely i wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for him hearing my parents prayers or even my prayers.
Me too. I was excused.
Thanks everyone. I’m grateful to be able to read your posts.
I think one reason there’s less in the way of help for the hearing impaired is because it is difficult for the able bodied to understand the problem. Blindness is something people can relate to. We’ve all had the experience of bumping into furniture or stepping on toys in the dark. But deafness is something else. I read somewhere that when a passenger explained to the flight attendant that she was hard of hearing and might not respond when spoken to, the flight attendant later brought her safety instructions in braille.
Great analogy … and the tale of the BRAILLE instructions being handed to the hearing-impaired passenger is worthy of a New Yorker cartoon.
I was once told I had to be pushed on board the plane in a wheelchair because i ask for personal notifications of the boarding due to my hearing loss.
People need to be trained, and that training needs to start in kindergarten and all the way up throughout their lives.
Hey, I may be pushing 70, but in my mind I’m only 7. Is that too young for ya? 