I have hearing aids but since I never go anywhere any more - thanks COVID - I seldom use them. That and it's easy to pull your hearing aids out when taking off a mask if you aren't really careful.

I would prefer to lose the rest of my hearing and not my sight. There's so much I can do and there are ways to communicate, like here for example. Closed Captioning is the best thing ever.

One of my aunts has been blind since she was in college from an inherited eye disease. She copes quite well but I am glad that died out in our family tree with that generation.

(December 18, 2020 at 12:07 pm)Eleven Wrote: Went out for the first time in public today because I had to visit the bank to get a new pin for my debit card.

It's good to see that the bank was taking the six foot rule and mask policy seriously. Unfortunately, not having been out in public since the entire thing has begun, I wasn't properly observing the six foot rule and had to be informed to back up.

Of course, I then had to explain my boyfriend was there because I am hard-of-hearing and it is difficult for me to sometimes understand what people are saying when I cannot read their lips. Yes, lip reading is something upon which I depend, and my co-workers are certainly mad that I have to keep having them repeat what they're saying.

Anywho, I shan't be repeating the event anytime soon. It annoyed me. I prefer simply going back and forth between work and home. The boyfriend does all the public stuff, he's the extrovert.

I finally went four years ago and got hearing aids.  It dawned on me that I wear glasses to see better so wearing hearing aids to hear better makes sense.  Course it took me about a decade to come to that conclusion.  The audiologist said that's typical...7-10 years before seeking help.

Huh?


What?


Say that again....

(December 18, 2020 at 2:16 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Huh?


What?


Say that again....

I'm hard of listening.

(December 18, 2020 at 3:12 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I'm hard of listening.

Do tell.

All sweeping generalizations are false, which means that some sweeping generalizations are  true, which means the statement ‘all sweeping generalizations are false’ is false, which COULD mean that all sweeping generalizations are true.

Boru

(December 18, 2020 at 6:19 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: All sweeping generalizations are false, which means that some sweeping generalizations are  true, which means the statement ‘all sweeping generalizations are false’ is false, which COULD mean that all sweeping generalizations are true.

Boru

Don't you start!     We have enough people on here talking in circles.

(December 18, 2020 at 3:22 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(December 18, 2020 at 3:12 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I'm hard of listening.

Do tell.

Eh?

(December 18, 2020 at 12:24 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I finally went four years ago and got hearing aids.  It dawned on me that I wear glasses to see better so wearing hearing aids to hear better makes sense.  Course it took me about a decade to come to that conclusion.  The audiologist said that's typical...7-10 years before seeking help.

I grew up wearing hearing aides, my family was receiving assistance from the state but that assistance went away when I became an adult at eighteen. My hearing aides lasted a few good years into adulthood, but of course they eventually died.

I could never afford new ones and I have never qualified for disability assistance.