Today I was inspired to change the name of this blog.\u00a0 After all, my life isn’t that wacky, but it certainly is deaf.\u00a0 I was rearranging my writing books when inspiration struck, which reminded me that I hadn’t written a new blog entry in much too long.<\/p>\n
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Once again I find myself at the end of the road with my hearing aids.\u00a0 They’ve been adjusted and tweaked as much as they’re able to be and until (and unless) someone (Siemens? Please!) comes up with something even more powerful, more effective, and more helpful, I have to adjust again.\u00a0 But these days adjusting isn’t as daunting as it used to be, especially since so many people text now rather than talk on cell phones.\u00a0 Captioned theaters have allowed me to go to movies again.\u00a0 (Liam Neeson, you’re my favorite action hero these days!)\u00a0 In New York, I can go to captioned live theater, thanks to the Theater Accessibilty Program, and\u00a0now and then, more things become accessible.<\/p>\n
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It’s not perfect by any means, it doesn’t always work out, and people don’t always cooperate, but overall, I have more options available to help me now than I ever did before.\u00a0 An aside – Movie Theaters, would you PLEASE when you have that cutesy little cartoon on the screen telling us to turn off our cell phones, let people know that the device in my cup holder is a caption machine?\u00a0 Then maybe the woman next to me at\u00a0the last Toronto theater I went to, would have\u00a0taken her crushed up used tissues out of the cup holder and let me put the machine in so I could view it from\u00a0a comfortable angle.\u00a0 Or maybe the woman\u00a0in the row behind me\u00a0at that same theater wouldn’t have hit me on the shoulder when the movie started and yelled, “Would you turn that thing off!”\u00a0 (I\u00a0promise you the device didn’t interfere with any other viewers in any way.)\u00a0 Though it was worth it to see Darling Hubby give her a withering look and say “No”, beating my Dearest Son to it by only a second.\u00a0 Funny, but those things never happen to me in New York, but New York, you are<\/em> behind on the movie captions.\u00a0 Speed it up, ok?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Getting back on topic, they talked to me about a cochlear implant again.\u00a0 Some of you may wonder why I don’t already have one, especially since you’re supposed to seriously consider it when hearing aids aren’t helping much anymore.\u00a0 I’ve thought about this plenty, believe me.\u00a0 I’ve discussed it with my family doctor, some of my other doctors, and medically, it’s not the best option for me. And even if I wanted to go through it, there’s no guarantee it would work.\u00a0 So it’s my informed choice to continue with what I have and challenge myself to face it, deal with it, and conquer it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So maybe things are looking down in the respect that I’m pretty much out of frequencies and can’t get most of the benefits from hearing aids, but I choose to think they’re looking up because I can still do things, enjoy my life, and enjoy the company of those I love.\u00a0 I’m grateful that they still enjoy my company and most of all,\u00a0 I’m grateful to have so many loving, caring, amazing people in my life. I know I say that a lot, but I’m so lucky to have so many people to say it to, for, and about.\u00a0 Deaf? Pfffft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I was inspired to change the name of this blog.\u00a0 After all, my life isn’t that wacky, but it certainly is deaf.\u00a0 I was rearranging my writing books when inspiration struck, which reminded me that I hadn’t written a new blog entry in much too long. Once again I find myself at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}