LambdaLynx"When I get my hearing aids, will I be able to hear you?"
Six years old. First grade. Teacher across the room. That question was the first time I truly understood I had a hearing loss. Not because someone told me. Because I figured it out myself.
Caesar CattusOne day I woke up from a nap because my cat was touching my arm. When I opened my eyes, I saw him open his mouth. He was meowing, but I couldn't hear him.
So I wrote this little poem, with a little sadness and a little acceptance. For all those sounds I love that are fading away as I become increasingly deaf...
My native language is Spanish so I put the original and then the translation.
Los pájaros se han ido
Los loros ya no juegan
en las ramas
La lluvia ya no canta
y el viento apenas sopla
Las risas de los niños
los perros del vecino
y la voz de ella
se alejan poco a poco
El silencio me devora
lentamente...
The birds have left
The parrots no longer play
on the branches
The rain no longer sings
and the wind barely blows
The children's laughter
the neighbor's dogs
and her voice
gradually fade away
The silence slowly devours me...
Perhaps the most painful loss is the loss of oneself, when time slowly steals away your gifts and treasures...
#deafness #hearingloss #deaf #silence #sordera #hipoacusia #silencio #actuallyautistic #autoimmune #poetry #poem
CBC NorthThis blind Yukon birder learned to use his ears — now hearing loss means every spring is quieter
76-year-old Brian Lendrum, who is blind, spent decades learning to locate and identify birds by sound. But now, he says, as he ages his hearing is “just very, very gradually going down every year.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/birdwatching-yukon-disabilities-9.7198409?cmp=rss
76-year-old Brian Lendrum, who is blind, spent decades learning to locate and identify birds by sound. But now, he says, as he ages his hearing is “just very, very gradually going down every year.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/birdwatching-yukon-disabilities-9.7198409?cmp=rss
CBC Top StoriesThis blind Yukon birder learned to use his ears — now hearing loss means every spring is quieter
76-year-old Brian Lendrum, who is blind, spent decades learning to locate and identify birds by sound. But now, he says, as he ages his hearing is “just very, very gradually going down every year.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/birdwatching-yukon-disabilities-9.7198409?cmp=rss
76-year-old Brian Lendrum, who is blind, spent decades learning to locate and identify birds by sound. But now, he says, as he ages his hearing is “just very, very gradually going down every year.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/birdwatching-yukon-disabilities-9.7198409?cmp=rss
Most people use the word "profound" casually. In audiology, it's the most severe category: you can't hear most sounds without amplification, and even with aids, significant gaps remain.
I didn't understand what that actually meant until well into adulthood.
https://lambdalynx.dev/profound-hearing-loss-classification/
Hacker NewsWalking Slower? Why Your Ears, Not Your Knees, Might Be the Problem
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/hearing-loss-walking-speed-iphone-study-c53c482a
#HackerNews #walkinghealth #hearingloss #wellness #research #speed
At four, I was dressed in a sombrero and serape, holding a maraca, and had no idea what anyone was singing.
Even today, with modern hearing aids, I cannot hear lyrics in music. What looked like a distracted kid was the earliest sign of permanent hearing loss.
That preschool moment wasn't a phase. It was the beginning.
The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & Entertainment [Unofficial]‘I never realised I had severe hearing loss until this symptom’
person-AIzMay is Better Hearing Month.
1.5 billion people globally live with some form of hearing loss. Most don't have access to expensive solutions.
We're working on accessible alternatives. Not perfect, but progress. An app that costs less than dinner out. A device with four buttons.
Small steps toward closing the gap.
NewsletterTFTears of Sound: A Young Man's Auditory Awakening
A 28-year-old man in Los Angeles can hear sounds clearly for the first time after a cochlear implant was activated. He shares his emotional experience.
#CochlearImplant, #HearingLoss, #LA, #NewSounds, #MedicalBreakthrough
https://newsletter.tf/la-man-hears-for-first-time-cochlear-implant/
