Why are you deaf?

My mom wasnt sure what kind of sick she had it with me during 5 months pregnant. I assume something with fever. I was born profound Deaf.
 
Nobody knows exactly why I'm hard of hearing. However, I've been told that when I was born, my brain somehow temporarily lost oxygen, but I somehow regained it. So my family assumes it's from my birth injury. But I, for some reason, never had a hearing test when I was born. I wasn't diagnosed with a sensor neural severe to profound hearing loss until I was 3 1/2.
 
I had to many ear infections, to many rounds of tonsillitis, to many sinus infections, and to many sets of tubes. When I was in my 20's they did a tonsillectomy, adenoids, and sinus surgeries. They found 3 small and 1 large rhinolith that they felt were leading to Eustachian issues.
 
Uh let's see.
I was born 3 months before my due date. Two of the arteries that was supposed to close naturally, didn't. At 18 months I was rushed to the ER for emergency heart surgery 'cause I was hemorrhaging blood into my lungs. The doctors fitted me with tubes and anti-biotics, but gave me too much anti-biotics and that caused nerve damage on almost my entire left side of the body, plus from the ears to the brain.

That's how I am deaf.
 
Started with a head injury when I was 21 but now with more noticeable symptoms it's starting to look like meniere's disease. I go to the doctors in 2 weeks but I have had vertigo issued the last 3 days straight.

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sorry princess I was being flippent about shirly maclain on an old thread...
 
Unknown. Did not find out I was profound deaf until 9 months old. No clue.
 
I took my ear off because zombie are attach to hearing lately.
 
I was born a micro-preemie (24 weeks gestation) so I was born with sensorineural hearing loss. Or well moderate in my left, and severe moderate in my right.

When I was nine years old, I was in a car accident - was sitting in the back seat with my sister, when we were rear-ended while stopped at a red light.

3 months later, my audiologist told my parents that my hearing dropped a little. Then for the next 2 years, it came to a point where my hearing loss was profound.

It was a little heart-breaking as every visit, I was always being told grim news that my hearing dropped again. I was a bit scared as I thought I was going to lose my hearing.

So in 2006, when I was 12, I was asked if I wanted a C.I, and I had no idea what they were.. so my parents explained to me, and so I agreed to get it.

So glad I did, as it helped me alot more then my hearing aids could ever have. Even more so with bilateral implants now.
 
hoichi said:
because im lucky.....
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My point is that many deaf people think that they are unlucky to be deaf, I don't think of it that way.
 
hoichi said:
HH is unlucky....
you can turn it all around be Deaf
Deaf is lucky...
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You're like some ethnocentric racist. :lol:

Your own personality makes you luck or unlucky in the way you look at life.

Basically I'm deaf with a HH personality.

We get lots more accessories... :)
 
It hard half life hearing then sudden deafness have people say at the time I wes lucky I just think lucky was something defiantly I most did not feel. Years a go no dwelling why me.i want to live and I will anger pity party they achieve nothingu
 
Bottesini said:
You're like some ethnocentric racist. :lol:

Your own personality makes you luck or unlucky in the way you look at life.

Basically I'm deaf with a HH personality.

We get lots more accessories... :)
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And can bling out our HAs. :cool2: :P
 
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