Joelene Tamm
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Hi, I was hoping to get a different perspective on my fustrations. I am only completely deaf in one ear. Lately I haven't been hearing moving vehicles and by the time I do it scares me. My lip reading is only beginning to take form. I feel like I never learned how to have a pointless conversation and always have been isolated because I can only communicate one on one. I've been thinking of I got a baha implant I might have better chances at getting a better job, I've been a waitress for all my life, not a good one at that, I can only understand peolpe when I'm looking at them, and if they have a different rythm of speach, well lots of people get angry and accuse me of making up stories. So I have been thinking about how I'm looking at the problem, I've been looking at it as an obsticle, and I wonder how deaf people look at these things. Also yesterday I had a hearing test and my deaf side feels like it's been hit, and both my eardrums feel inflated, are audiologist supposed to test deaf people differently? Why would they turn the sound up too 110 dB if legally deaf is only 90db. Does bone conduction hurt deaf people due to increased sensitvity?.. I guess I have a lot of questions, I tried looking them up but most websites are geared towards normal people.. thanks to any replys