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Science is So Amazing.......Get a Load of This

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 11 Apr

My grandson sent me this video to watch. Every day it seems like scientists are developing something new to help improves our lives. This is so amazing! Scientists are now able to cure deafness with just one injection. It is so...

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Welcome Henry!

Fleur @Fleura (34927) • United Kingdom 9 May 24

For several years now we have had vacuum-cleaner problems. I used to have an older model, I think it was Electrolux, which I bought second hand and it worked just fine. But when we were doing some work on our last house, which...

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Did you say back verandah or jacaranda?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381792) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Feb 22

Tomorrow we have to be at Vince’s brother’s place at 8.00am. We are helping take down the last of his old patio. The beams on this section are quite heavy but he has his two grandsons coming to help. Vince is 74 and his brother...

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A teapot surrounded by curtains

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381792) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Nov 21

My husband, Vince, loves his photography and is in a number of Facebook photographic sites. Some of these have weekly ‘challenges’ which are low-key events with the ‘winner’ usually chosen by the winner from the previous weeks....

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Aftermath of the flu.

Aleskys Cardozo @Aleskys (5879) • Venezuela 11 Feb 20

Since yesterday I feel my ears covered and today they hurt and I feel a little deaf I know that it is a sequel to the flu has already happened to me and it is quite annoying to be like this, I hope to alleviate this discomfort...

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An enjoyable night spent with friends

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381792) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Dec 19

We were seven at the table for dinner last night and it was very enjoyable. Four of the people are relatively new acquaintances but we thoroughly enjoyed meeting them and hope to see more of them in the future. We need some new...

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Sometimes it's too noisy even for deaf people

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381792) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Dec 19

The photo is of some of my sister’s goats hoeing into their breakfast. My husband and I both have hearing aids although I don’t wear mine all the time as I get very itchy ears. When we visited my sister before Christmas, her son...

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We've got 'em - our hearing aids, that is

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381792) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Dec 18

This afternoon my husband and I had our first hearing aids fitted. We weren’t looking forward to this, more because of what it says about our age and infirmities than for any other particular reason. But we’ve agreed that it’s...

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Last Discussion about Deafness - Fiction - Come Play With Me

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381792) • Rockingham, Australia 3 Dec 18

I think it’s time I got off the subject of my encroaching deafness but here is a last (for the moment) fictional duologue between two old ladies in a nursing home. The characters are modelled on my mother who was still very...

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Would mini-quiches make an upside-down cake?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381792) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Dec 18

I have gone on and on about how my husband and I are both getting hard of hearing. We’ve now been tested and Vince needs two hearing aids and I need one – although we both have two ears. We have some funny conversations from...

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Good morning - kettle's boiling

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381792) • Rockingham, Australia 25 Apr 17

Recently I wrote about our failing hearing and how I need to start documenting the funny things we think each other said. The particular example I used was telling Vince that an acoustic group was about to play and he thought I'd...

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Kids in Bubbles

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381792) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Apr 17

We attended our local Apple Festival today (Easter Saturday) and had fun walking round the various exhibits. Children were well catered for and we were intrigued with this 'ride' that we hadn't seen before. The child was put into...

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A Forgotten Hero With A Disability

Jonathan Fuller Westrick @Jon2071 (256) • United States 5 Apr 17

One subject that I enjoy reading about is baseball history. I find the stories of the early days of the sport to be interesting. There were some very interesting and eccentric characters back then. The player I read about is quite...

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Are you deaf ? New link between hearing loss and memory loss

Janet Anderson @Auntylou (4262) • Oxford, England 14 Feb 16

Scientists have discovered that patients with deafness that is not fixed by hearing aids have a higher risk of dementia (memory loss). It is thought that when a person has mild loss of hearing, they have to focus so hard on what...

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Help, My Dog Can’t Hear!

Belekoy @Belekoy (28) • Manila, Philippines 2 Oct 14

A silent disability. Deafness in dogs can generally be accounted due to genetic defects (congenital) or it can also be acquired due to trauma, accident, disease or old age. It can either be partial or complete hearing loss which...

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Using the Excuse You're Deaf or Old

NailTech @NailTech (6874) • United States 29 Dec 12

I am getting so tired of hearing these excuses in my family lately. Today it was like "Ask her to help me, get confused on what the right term to say was, get angry and then just blame it on my deafness" again with my dad. He is...

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Hearing Aides

NailTech @NailTech (6874) • United States 5 Dec 12

My dad is 74 and has always had a hearing problem, and as he gets older it gets worse. He has had a hearing aid many years ago but it didn't seem to work. One day it feel out of his ear and mom found it on the grass in the yard....

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Tired of Talking to Walls

NailTech @NailTech (6874) • United States 29 Jul 12

So today I tell my dad I could try to put up 1-2 items of his on eBay as I used to do before this surgery I had on the 17th cause I'm trying to be bak into the swing of things abit more and help him out again. I said not anything...

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Deaf Person To Live With

NailTech @NailTech (6874) • United States 12 May 12

I was wondering if any of you had to live with a person who was extremely hard of hearing and how you handled it? I am living with that now moreso than ever and it can be stressful for us all here, including him. But I hear such...

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Parents of hearing impaired children, should they learn signing?

kaysue4 @kaysue4 (951) • United States 2 Aug 11

I have a 7 year old grand daughter and she is hearing and speech impaired and also Autistic. She goes to a special school that is for these issues and she is learning to use sign language. I get her every summer since she was 2...

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