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Ok - so I just literally want to shout from the mountains - I FINALLY FEEL NORMAL!!!!! 
why? well - it hasn't even been a full 24 hours just yet - but I've been wearing one of the most INCREDIBLE inventions known to man.
My hearing aid.
I am 30 years old - and I've been losing my hearing over the past few years due to my entire life having dealt with tubes/ear infections, etc...
I never even THOUGHT of getting a hearing aid until this year. I had to have a tympanoplasty & a mastoidechtomy in my right ear to repair my ear drum (which was literally half gone + the other half was all scar tissue)...and I will be healing from that for the next few months - so I have VERY limited hearing in that ear.
My left ear - which is "normal" as far as my ear drum goes - has also been losing hearing and I'm at about only 60% hearing in both ears...
Yesterday I got my hearing aid - and OMG i am just so happy i want to cry. seriously. DH was SO impressed last night alone - just watching tv like we always do - and I didn't have to turn the volume up to 40 on our set (he normally has it at 25 or so.
Today at work - I actually butted into a conversation in the cubicle next to me because I could actually HEAR what they were saying!!!!!
For those of you who don't have hearing problems I know you might not be able to understand - but seriously - imagine having earplugs AND cotton in your ears and trying to hold a conversation with someone. It's close to impossible and so incredibly frustrating you want to cry.
Imagine everyone around you (including your job) constantly asking you why you're "anti-social" and don't want to ever go out with people - because you know that it's literally painful to go out and try to BE social when you CAN'T hear them to hold a conversation. Imagine your Significant Other constantly asking you why you hate his friends and never want to go out with them - when you know the reason is because it's no fun to go and consantly ask, throughout conversations, "what? i'm sorry - can you speak up? I didn't hear you" after almost EVERY SINGLE THING that person says.
Seriously - there are sometimes that if I had to choose between normal hearing and a normal weight - as obsessed as I am about my weight - I'd take normal hearing any day.
BUT I finally feel like I've got it!!!!
Just had to share - like I said, I just want to shout from the mountains - I CAN HEAR AGAIN!!!!!!!
why? well - it hasn't even been a full 24 hours just yet - but I've been wearing one of the most INCREDIBLE inventions known to man.
My hearing aid.
I am 30 years old - and I've been losing my hearing over the past few years due to my entire life having dealt with tubes/ear infections, etc...
I never even THOUGHT of getting a hearing aid until this year. I had to have a tympanoplasty & a mastoidechtomy in my right ear to repair my ear drum (which was literally half gone + the other half was all scar tissue)...and I will be healing from that for the next few months - so I have VERY limited hearing in that ear.
My left ear - which is "normal" as far as my ear drum goes - has also been losing hearing and I'm at about only 60% hearing in both ears...
Yesterday I got my hearing aid - and OMG i am just so happy i want to cry. seriously. DH was SO impressed last night alone - just watching tv like we always do - and I didn't have to turn the volume up to 40 on our set (he normally has it at 25 or so.
Today at work - I actually butted into a conversation in the cubicle next to me because I could actually HEAR what they were saying!!!!!
For those of you who don't have hearing problems I know you might not be able to understand - but seriously - imagine having earplugs AND cotton in your ears and trying to hold a conversation with someone. It's close to impossible and so incredibly frustrating you want to cry.
Imagine everyone around you (including your job) constantly asking you why you're "anti-social" and don't want to ever go out with people - because you know that it's literally painful to go out and try to BE social when you CAN'T hear them to hold a conversation. Imagine your Significant Other constantly asking you why you hate his friends and never want to go out with them - when you know the reason is because it's no fun to go and consantly ask, throughout conversations, "what? i'm sorry - can you speak up? I didn't hear you" after almost EVERY SINGLE THING that person says.
Seriously - there are sometimes that if I had to choose between normal hearing and a normal weight - as obsessed as I am about my weight - I'd take normal hearing any day.
BUT I finally feel like I've got it!!!!
Just had to share - like I said, I just want to shout from the mountains - I CAN HEAR AGAIN!!!!!!!
x5 
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