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Those colours sound fab! I love autumn colours- they would go with my hair if it was still ginger, but it's not. Mustard, purple and teal are some of my favourites, tho I feel too pale to wear white- I just don't like wearing white. Did you say that the photo shoot is for a job? That sounds...

CJB, my boss wasn't the most understanding of people. He was 28 at the time though which I thought would be old enough to understand, but young enough to get on with - he drove me crazy! To be fair, I had a track record of not wearing them/cleaning them/forgetting them! Sometimes I forget to...

I too would say you need new moulds. Although I haven't had behind-the-ear moulded aids, I have in the past had in-the-ear aids (like this http://www.hearing-guide.com/Concha.png), and putting them in/wearing them felt somewhat like putting a shoe on- you can feel the presence, but it's not...

I put hydrogen peroxide on my hair.. my experiences of alternative medicine have been thus: -I tried homeopathic medicine for a wart on my thumb, which did nothing whatsoever. The wart disappeared one day much later- I just woke up and it wasn't there. -I tried echinacea drops for a cold but...

Ah, I see. My old boss used to say to me 'are you wearing your hearing aids' when I couldn't hear something- they often needed cleaning, but that's besides the point! I saw a badge online, it said something like 'Face me when you speak, I'm deaf!'- I still think it's worth a shot!

Yeah, noisy environments are pretty much no for me, a pub/noisy street will require lots of lipreading and repeating things. I actually don't know if my vision is corrected perfectly with my glasses, so I can't compare- though there are signs I often can't read without moving closer, so I've...

I have similar problems with directions, which I've posted about, but I'm ok with reading watches and counting change (though a bit slow, and it'd take me forever to actually calculate change from a total). Sadly there are always going to be people that 'just don't get it'- mental health is my...

Bottesini, I'm sorry for that mean man :-( don't let him put you off talking in public if you want to talk in public. I don't have a deaf 'accent', although there are a few words I always pronounce incorrectly- piano- I say 'pieno' apparently, and sometimes I miss the s off the end of plurals...

That's true, I often think 'at least I don't know what I'm missing.' I sometimes wonder, though, if a magical cure came along, with no side effects, which would give me 'normal' hearing- would I take it? I don't know. I can manage reasonably well with my hearing aids, but there are times, like...

Very good news! It's illegal to use mobile phones while driving here, and I'm not sure about texting specifically but it would count as driving without due care and attention if something happened. A young girl in her 20's was convicted a while ago for texting while driving- she crashed into...

Ah yes, we call them 'Chavs', if they wear tracksuits and drink lager. Scotland is part of the UK :p if they don't wear tracksuits, but just get very drunk and sing football songs loudly at 3a.m, whilst littering kebab wrappers everywhere, I'm not really sure what we call them. I think I'm the...

Haha, how true! I did eat a chocolate eyeball last Halloween, complete with foil wrapper, as I was rather drunk..I just thought it was crunchy! No bongs for me... CJB, did you have any particular treatments in mind when you wrote your post? I'm interested to know your thoughts.

Ouch....I haven't passed my test, but I don't think changing lanes and going past a very big truck is advisable in a tunnel... Am I the only one who wonders why, and how, the person taping this conveniently had a camera handy while driving?

I was just looking at the Quackwatch site (I'm sallylou and Jillio's one-woman fanclub!) and remembered the British 'Nutritionist' Gillian McKeith- are you familiar with her in America? She has/had a TV show, and I remember one episode where she was saying that different coloured foods had...

I have a headache..I really need to drink more water. My chocolate crumble was not tasty :-(

Thankyou Sallylou and Jillio :-) Well, souggy, I don't know my IQ, I don't drink alcohol (anymore), I'm incredibly messy, the only sports I like are gymnastics and F1, I'm British and I like sex as much as the next hoh person, according to another thread! I find it interesting how, for me and...

Aww! Thankyou *blushes profusely* I can write well, but I get lost easily (I often feel that I have no common sense!) and have enough mental issues to fill a large hat...in other words, I'm human. I like this website- I can discuss pretty much anything- it's not just related to D/deaf issues.

Re: Jillio- Well, I had a good few years of doing nothing and complaining it wasn't working ;-) and I have negative thinking that can be extremely stubborn. So don't be fooled- as a person and a patient I could quite well irritate you immensely! For the most part I just enjoyed psychology as a...

Thanks, Jillio! I've always been interested in psychology so when I 'became' depressed at 18/19 I read as much as I could to educate myself. I'm 24 now so it's been 6 or so years of reading. I've had a number of people offer me their 'advice' about eating disorders by saying things like...

I don't know anything about distilled water (science was not my strong point and I haven't studied it since I was 16), but I had an interesting experience today relating to alternative medicine. The centre which offers the course I go to (I keep typing curse! A Freudian slip is when you say one...