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Subject : Why My CICs Are So Important To Me posted by kip on Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:02 am |
| And, how thankful, I am that I can go about my daily life like normal hearing people, again (nearly) smile! For you see, without my CICs in place, my normal life just about stops. Hearing that I used to take for granted, I don't anymore. Just a few of the sounds that I cannot hear without my CICs in place are: conversations one to one, telephone, water running anywhere, TV, radio, music, and anything pertaining to being in and/or driving my car. So many more sounds, I cannot hear without my HAs in place -- but, these are just a very few of them. This is just part of the reasons, I feel the normal hearing public just does not and cannot understand the huge disconnection, minute by minute the HOHers are faced with - not being able to hear/understand the sounds of their daily lives. This is why, I feel The System does not (but, should) understand the scope of dealing with a person's hearing well-being is more important a human issue, than competition with their fellow professionals and to their "patients/clients" for profit, only. We HOHers do understand, for we cope with HOH (with or without HA) daily. We are handicapped (whether we want to or will admit it), just like the blind, loss of limbs, etc. But, being HOH, no one can "see it"; and, only realize a person is HOH when they hear, "Huh?", "Huh?", a couple of times. Not a pity party, for me; just wished The System undersood a little better how profound, HOH disrupts a person's well being. IMHO, The System's for profit only, should stop; and, start addressing the real problems of the HOHers who really have the need to hear, beyond belief. IMHO, "Go home and see how that sounds", is not the answer we HOH want; for we deserve better than that - a whole lot better. kip |
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