Heavenleigh
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Hi,
I suppose I should start by telling my story. It's weird writing about my life in the hopes that maybe somewhere someone will understand me and what I go through on a daily basis. However maybe I will here...
I'm born and bred in Canada eh? haha. I have severe to profound hearing loss in my left ear and nothing in the right. My left ear is getting worse to the point where last November (2011) I woke up and couldn't hear anything with my hearing aid. I went in for a hearing test and they said it was all gone. I was devastated. They said they could try a steroid shot to the ear drum and maybe I would get some hearing back so I said 'Why not? What's the worst that could happen?'. It was a 50/50 chance. I got my hearing back but since then every so often I wake up and can't hear, usually every few months. So i just go with the flow now, I haven't gotten anymore shots. If its meant to be, it's meant to be right?
It wasn't discovered I was deaf till I was 4 years old. They said that if i was in fact deaf I wouldn't (shouldn't?) possess the language skills I had. I must have taught myself to lipread very early on in life or something. I was raised in an oral environment and attended mainstream schools. I'm trying to learn ASL now but it was never really allowed when I was growing up. I remember as a kid going to a couple ASL classes however once I started wanting to sign all the time my parents stopped with it. "We live in a oral/hearing world you need to be able to thrive in this world" Since I had no one to talk to and continue to use ASL I forgot it. Instead I spent many hours a week in speech therapy.
I'm not sure what else to say at the moment. But this is a part of my story, a small part nonetheless a part of me. There's many more chapters and maybe one day i'll share some more but for now...
Cheers
I suppose I should start by telling my story. It's weird writing about my life in the hopes that maybe somewhere someone will understand me and what I go through on a daily basis. However maybe I will here...
I'm born and bred in Canada eh? haha. I have severe to profound hearing loss in my left ear and nothing in the right. My left ear is getting worse to the point where last November (2011) I woke up and couldn't hear anything with my hearing aid. I went in for a hearing test and they said it was all gone. I was devastated. They said they could try a steroid shot to the ear drum and maybe I would get some hearing back so I said 'Why not? What's the worst that could happen?'. It was a 50/50 chance. I got my hearing back but since then every so often I wake up and can't hear, usually every few months. So i just go with the flow now, I haven't gotten anymore shots. If its meant to be, it's meant to be right?
It wasn't discovered I was deaf till I was 4 years old. They said that if i was in fact deaf I wouldn't (shouldn't?) possess the language skills I had. I must have taught myself to lipread very early on in life or something. I was raised in an oral environment and attended mainstream schools. I'm trying to learn ASL now but it was never really allowed when I was growing up. I remember as a kid going to a couple ASL classes however once I started wanting to sign all the time my parents stopped with it. "We live in a oral/hearing world you need to be able to thrive in this world" Since I had no one to talk to and continue to use ASL I forgot it. Instead I spent many hours a week in speech therapy.
I'm not sure what else to say at the moment. But this is a part of my story, a small part nonetheless a part of me. There's many more chapters and maybe one day i'll share some more but for now...
Cheers