Well, I’m all registered and ready for college classes again. Though not quite as excited as I was back in September, however, I have a wonderful schedule which has me attending only one day a week for four hours. NOT BAD, HUH?
Once again, I find myself worried about hearing in the classroom, having to tell the Professor I have a hearing loss and struggling through the semester no matter where I sit. The rooms are bare and metal all over the place, making accoustics horrendous. Life as an individual with hearing loss is not easy at any age. It gets to the point where repeating that u need someone to repeat/rephrase becomes pointless sometimes.
Yes, I know there’s CART and interperters. I’m just tired of all the emotional energy it takes to hear, not listen but to hear what’s being said. I’m a lousy lipreader and always have been. Hearing is biologically different than listening. They are two different animals. I guess, I’m tired of fighting battles for me.
After my jewelry making class on Monday, I was literally drained from being so hearing focused on the teacher. It’s so difficult to explain this to people who are clueless and have “good” hearing. Although my friends understood as they know me very well and also felt that the person speaking from his office (in our classroom) made it difficult for me to hear the teacher.
Since the cold weather started (or since I’ve returned from the warm weather), my tinnitus is blasting away in my left ear. I just wish it was playing a good tune rather than the ocean roaring combined with radio static. Kind of puts a dull momentom on things as well as makes it difficult to focus on speech.
Kind of hard to believe that in the 21st century, the medical profession and the hearing aid industry can’t come up with something more exact for us. Cochlear implants are not appealing to me but I am not against them. Hearing aids are still foreign but help to a degree.
We can scan the world and spy on other countries with satelites, communicate thru emails to the other side of the world in real time, we can replace peoples hearts, kidneys and liver. In some cases, we can even give sight to the blind. So why can’t they make our ears hear?
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