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Archive => Archives => Topic started by: wanderer on October 09, 2005, 10:14:51 am
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Hi All,
well It has been almost a year now since I lost my hearing in my left year and I just thought I would post the advantages of losing your hearing in only 1 year.
1. You can sleep very well at night by burying your good ear in the pillow.
2. You can sleep at the hospital for the same reason as #1.
3. You can ignore people and they just think you didn't hear them.
4. You can frustrate people by making them repeat themselves many times when you really don't care what they are talking about.
I'm sure there are more. But those are the best I've found so far.
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You bet there are advantages! My husband and I have been married for almost 25 years and for the first 18 years of those, I was lucky if I got 2 hours of sleep a night, due to his snoring. I was exhausted! He even had surgery to help reduce the snoring, didn't work. Then came my AN and the loss of my hearing nerve, long story short - I have slept like a baby for 7 years now!!
So, I guess my AN cured his snoring problem.
I was able to tune out my boys (during their teen years), like they tuned me out when I spoke to them, except I had an excuse.
I can also to relate to #4. LOL
There are always positives to be found in everything.
matti
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This topic is just going to get better and better... Just what we needed, a few laughs!
Here's a few more I can think of right now:
1) When extraordinarily rude people ask "What are you, deaf?", you can smile sweetly and say "Yes, why? Do you have a problem with deaf people?" (This is an actual exchange I had in a store once!) ;D
2) We've all heard the phrase "He/She marches to a different drummer." Well, with SSD (and, more importantly, the accompanying tinnitus) we can actually hear our drummer. Just bounce your head rhythmically to a beat that in no way matches the music around you.
3) When people actually begin to converse about things they don't think you can hear, laugh out loud at appropriate moments in their conversation. Very disconcerting to them. (Especially my high school students, who still don't seem to understand that my hearing on the left side is just fine.)
4) Using power tools with only one earplug in. Gets you many stares.
5) If you're using an earphone for your cell phone, you can totally tune out conversations around you, just like people with normal hearing pretend to do while talking on their cell phones.
6) Use one earphone to listen to pundits on the radio. Tell people that you only listen in the ear that best represents your political leanings.
7) You can go to a loud concert and leave knowing you're hearing is at least as good as everyone else's.
8) Dinner with some people you aren't that fond of? No problem! Just sit with your ear facing the room, and all you need to do is nod and smile at appropriate times.
9) Go target shooting, also with only one earplug. Really freaks 'em out.
Wanderer, you've got it just right - there are advantages to be found! Thanks for the laughs!
Josh
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Hi Wanderer, your posting did make me grin ;D it makes such a refreshing change. I find advantages too being deaf in one ear, when my other half's calling me and I can't tell what room he's in, I can't even tell what floor he's on by the time I've found him someone else has gone to his aid. It definately has advantages, you can have selective hearing and you have a good excuse. I work with Autistic kids and it has it's advantages then as well.
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you get twice the wear from ear plugs normal people get ;D !!
My wife likes the TV on a night ... I can turn over and I dont hear a thing ..
Joe
4cm removed at house
Aug 9,2005
I get BAHA on Nov 17,2005
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Joe,
What?!?!?! A BAHA? If you get one of those, how will you take advantage of all the SSR? ;D
Seriously, will you let us know how it goes? I'm having translab surgery November 7, so I will be an ideal candidate for BAHA.
Thanks
Josh
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It was open enrollment time this month and I was able to change to a company that covers the BAHA, so hopefully sometime in january I get get the pin implanted.
I feel like such a hypocrite now ;D
But I guess I could always take off the processor.
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:D Just have to say........this post was a welcome relief and gave me a needed giggle for the day. Thanks guys.....you are all the best! ;D
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I'm not sure if anyone mention this.
It takes only half as long to have a hearing test. I know, had one today :)
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What I really like: every year my husband and I go to some functions with co-workers of ours, there is one particular woman with whom I have ended our friends-ship (rather bluntly I told her never to talk to me again), now this drives her nuts and she keeps trying to "suck up to me" and I just brush her off but what is great is I intentionally sit down to dinners etc. with her directly on my left side (deaf side) and ignore her....she knows I am deaf in one ear but has never taken the time to notice she's on the wrong side so while she talks away I just ignore her and my husband (who always sits on my good side) makes sure I hear everyone else or points out to everyone else that I didn't hear them...he ignores her too. It's great.
I too benifit at sleeping time, being a shift worker it is often loud outside while I sleep during the day, or it's noisy in my own home, I sleep on the good ear and it's not a problem....unfortantely my husband's snore is louder than some of you ladies husband's and I can still hear that, not loud enough to wake me if I am asleep but if I am awake it keeps me awake.
Kathleen
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I've got a new one. You don't have to go out and spend a lot of money on a surround sound home theater system
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I'm not sure if anyone mention this.
It takes only half as long to have a hearing test. I know, had one today :)
I tried to talk my audiologist into charging half his usual fee since he only had to test one ear. He just laughed.
Jeff
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Somehow that doesn't seem fair!!! My mom had a mastectomy and now when she gets a mammogram - she only gets charged for half the exam!
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As a House Ear Clinic "alumus," I am now ontheir mailing list. Last year theysent me a brochure promoting hearing health and protection and in the package they included a set of earplugs. Considering the fact that they had a big part in my single sided deafness, I found this to be humorous. They could have saved a substantial amount had they split up the sets for there many satisfied customers. ;)
Jeff
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I had my translab 4 years ago at the House in Los Angeles. You forgot to mention: sshr is also very intertaining to others as they watch you spin in circles trying to locate where the sound is coming from! I am a laugh a minute at work. PS: for those who have had BAHA, which insurances paid? Mine wouldn't cover saying it was a hearing aid. Also, how do you like it?
Suecab
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When the neighborhood is celebrating the Chicago White Sox winning the World Series I can roll over, put my good ear in the pillow and go back to sleep.
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Dave,
Not a White Sox fan, eh? I'm a Yankees fan myself - I use my bad ear to drown out the boos!
Josh
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Josh, Was a Cubs fan until 1969 when they went into their August swoon and the Mets won it all. Since then haven't really followed the sport.
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Dave,
Fair enough. The Cubs could make the Pope lose faith. Someday...
Josh