What I Want You To Know About My Hearing Loss
Dear friends, As you know, I’m hearing impaired. This was the only information I shared with you, simply because I didn’t know I needed to learn and say more. For the last few months, I have been educating myself on hearing loss and hearing aids. It was such an eye-opener. This has happened quite late but better late than never. I have moderate to moderately severe sloping SNHL (sensorineural hearing loss) in my right ear. My left ear has a profound mixed hearing loss with poor speech discrimination. Poor speech discrimination is a kind of scientific, complicated way to say that I have trouble understanding speech even when the speaker’s voice is audible enough. This means that sometimes, I have trouble hearing you while other times, I can hear you but I find it difficult to understand what you say. This might be a lot to absorb at once but I will explain further details later. Here are the main takeaways I’d like to share with you. These are important to keep our communication as prod...
