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June 15, 2008

Working with an interpreter

by @ 2:16 pm. Filed under Misc

I will be working with an interpreter next year, I was still only thinking about it when I heard from the interpreter yesterday and said that it already has been confirmed for next year…

thing is, My understanding and reading of sign is very good, but my production of sign is crap to say the least, but I dont really need to because I have my voice and im not afraid to use it! So I will be combining lipreading, sign and speaking to make it through my degree next year. Will it work?

I have never worked with a terp before, but I know her and her sign is very clear and I understand her very good, but I am just a bit nervous as I usually stick to myself in college to get things done, having someone with me all the time is going to be different, any sugestions for a newbie with a terp?

cheers.

April 24, 2008

I have finally been given an answer!

by @ 10:47 am. Filed under Sounds, Experiences, Discussion

…for what the ‘breathing through my ears’ feeling actually is!

I went in to the specialist yesterday for my first review since the operation in January and there was good and bad news.

Good news: My ear drum is healed. and I have been given an explanation to what this sensation I and everyone else on here has been having!

Bad News: My left ear drum is healed but is retracted again and it is inevitable that fluid will build up again very soon, and they dont want to risk putting tubes back in as my drums wont be able to take it, and the fluid will detieorate the middle ear bones and my residule hearing will suffer regardless!

Also… there is no cure for the sensation of breathing through your ears!…

What it is: My estachian tubes are in a constant state of dysfunction, they are always closed and in a constant state of pressure. I dont breath or hear or feel the way whats considered to be normal. My estachian tubes are under developed. This breathing through my ears is when the tubes open for a brief moment and actually function properly as they are supposed to!!!!

But because I have lived with this all my life, this feeling is hurtfull and uncomfortable. when I pinch my nose and suck in to make the discomfort go away, all im doing is putting my estachian tubes back into a state of dysfunction, which is what im used to and what feels normal to me!

He was honest and he said, he wouldnt give me false hopes, he said there is no cure whatso ever and that I will just have to learn to live with it.

He said it is common for people who have PET or ETD (Palatous estachian tube, or estachian tube dysfunction) I have the latter and this is my situation.

yours may be different to mine, but to be honest I dont mind that there is no cure, I wish there was but at least I have an answer :) :)

February 3, 2008

Operation Number 10!

by @ 10:28 am. Filed under Thoughts, Experiences

So its official, I have to have my tenth operation on the 21st of Febuary, read more at my blog: www.kimododreams.com/lette/?p=329 because I cant add all the links on here! cheers :)

December 29, 2007

The Sunday Before Christmas

by @ 7:23 am. Filed under Misc

(Note: It’s Christmas season anyway so I’m posting my blog post here, and sending you merry wishes and happy new year greetings. Athina)
 

The Sunday before Christmas, le famille attended a Sunday worship at a church downtown being pastored by my brother in law. Bro in law led the worship singing and a visiting preacher preached the word of God for over an hour. I’m wearing my pocket talker but I did not try to use the extension cord so that I can position the mic near the speaker. We were just visitors in that church and I thought not to bother with the hassle of installing my ALD all over the place. Oh how a I endured and suffered an hour of not understanding anything the preacher was passionately saying at the pulpit. I kept pinching my arms so I can stay awake. You will never know how hard it is to sit for an hour trying to understand a preaching but failing miserably. The proper word is angry. I was very angry that I didn’t understand. I heard sounds but my mind cannot proccess the sounds as meaningful speech.
Then after the preaching a little girl sang a special number. I was delighted because I can lipread and understand the song as it was my childhood Sunday school song.
When Christ is in my vessel I can smile like the storm
smile like the storm, smile like the storm
When Christ is in my vessel I can smile like the storm
Until He takes me home.
Sailing, I’m sailing home
Sailing, I’m sailing home.
When Christ is in my vessel I can smile like the storm
Until He takes me home.
Anyways God is really good and His mercies never end. He saw my anger and He aproached me by letting me “hear” the song. I shed a tear secretly not because of self pity but because I experienced God’s love at that moment in church, the Sunday before Christmas.
We are only whole to the extent that we are experiencing God’s love everyday, as my eldest sister loved to say.

December 20, 2007

Hearing Dogs For Deaf People!

by @ 1:54 pm. Filed under Misc, Thoughts, Accessibility, Discussion

Ok I obviously dont get out enough! I never knew this! I can only find a UK link, but i think its a wonderful idea to have a dog that can be your partner and be your ears! they are trained to alert their owners to alarms, car horns, traffic, doorbells, factory and work related sounds, every sound both work and home related to help you feel secure in your hearing difficulty!

WOW!!! I want one! :p haha no really I think its a great idea, heres the UK link to read about it,: http://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/ 

is this service available anywhere else in the world? I cant find any links for here in Ireland, but ill keep digging! :)

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