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Hi My name is also Cole, I’m 50 and was struck w unilateral deafness in right ear 6 months ago. Saw my ENT within a weeks time. He shot the stuff in my ear drum 3 times that first week. IM ALSO A PROFESSIONAL PERFORMING TEACHING AND RECORDING, MUSICIAN OF THIRTY PLUS YEARS… it’s been tough to say the least. I wonder how you are doing. You’re a kid (same age when I got started). I’m wondering how you’re doing. Prayers and thoughts buddy! Btw you sound great at the end of the video 💪🏻😃👂🏻
I’ve lost hearing in my left eye but we’re still blessed things could be so much worse even if I went fully deaf life is still worth living and we can still get a lot done 💯🙏🏾❤️
I use ASL. This was very interesting. The tips you mentioned would be true for ASL as well as BSL. I would need to watch many times to learn the alphabet! The only word I understood was CAT!
O man, I’m sorry to hear that… I’ve got sudden deafness in my right ear. So far w IEM I can continue being a pro guitarist and singer. It’s tough though
Keep an eye on this research. "Gene therapy restores hearing in children with rare form of deafness The approach could help researchers develop therapies for other types of inherited hearing loss" From: Science
Music is a big part of my life. I suffer SSD in my left ear, I play acousic electric guitar, left handed, in a duo. Waiting for a CROS wireless system to be fitted on 24th October. I hope and pray that this may improve my hearing so that I can actually hear properly what I am playing.
My sister is 32 years old and she has suffered from meniere disease for years and she always complains to me that I had to bought her Dr Madida herbs I saw on RU-vid and she is telling me last month that she is cured completely and don’t long have the symptoms like vertigo or dizziness, feeling of fullness in the ear or ringing, hearing loss, imbalance, motion sickness, nausea, or nystagmus🎉🎉
Hi Nell. May I say how inspiring you are. I have bilateral hearing loss due to 35 years of Meniere's disease. I have recently (3 wks) ago received a CI on the right (worst) side and awaiting activation. Thank you for videos as you are someone who has walked the walk. You have already helped me and my family better understand my new normal. Thank you for your selfless contribution.
Thank you for this video. I just started working for someone else for the first time in 20 years (had my own small business and was a stay at home mom prior to that) and it's the first time being in a workplace since i started losing my hearing about 5 years ago. My hearing loss is pretty severe and i wear hearing aids and have told my boss and co-workers, however, I have somehow managed to get a job where all but 2 of my co-workers speak very softly. One of them wears a face mask at all times. I have told them all that I am hearing imparied and ive asked them repeatedly to please speak louder, but they only do so immediately after i ask and then they revert to speaking softly later on. You would think that my constant asking them to repeat themselves would make them just speak louder, but it's like they can't. I am exhausted from the straining i have to do to try to piece together what they are saying. I don't know how else i can advocate for myself besides repeatedly asking them to repeat what they've said. I know this video is old, but if anyone happens to see it and has any advice for me, I would truly appreciate it. Thank you!!🤗💕
Hi, thanks for this video! I'm from the UK, I've been weaing hearing aids since I was 8 and now as a 23 y/o I've finally been given blutooth enabled aids on the NHS. Just to be able to listen to music out and about like most other has been so useful. If I had normal hearing I would have already got myself air pods by now. It definitely makes me want to eventually go private so that I can get the best living standard possible. I'm really excited that waterproof aids are now being made. That would be the next big step for me. Swimming was a problem forever for me. Swimming ;lessons as a child were very scary because I couldn't hear. I also had poor sight, so essentially was made to do lessons without sight or hearing. The teachers tried to be understanding but it was still tough. Just something simple like going to a beach or water park is more complicated for me. I've occasionally chanced it and kept my aids in and just tried very hard not to get them wet. I was raised as "hearing". So never learnt signing or anything. So wasn't fully part of the deaf community but also found it hard to integrate with hearing peers. It's still quite upsetting to me that I will have to fork out probably near £2000 if I just want hearing aids that connect via blutooth and I can wear say swimming in the sea. Just normal things for other people. I desperately hope that one day things will be much better. And an 8 y/o of the future will have waterproof blutooth enabled aids from the get go. I however, may be waiting a while. It seems these aids aren't available in the UK.It makes me upset because I've been aware that hearing companies have always been taking advantage. Blutooth enabled ear pieces have been available to the hearing for ages. But for us they will give you an aid where you have to buy an extra expensive device in order to use bluetooth. That's how its been for a long time with the NHS. Only in 2020ish did they fix this and start giving blutooth compatible aids.
Hi Nelle💖I have followed your journey from when you first lost your hearing & your first video in Apr 2021! Your life changed forever! You had to give up your job! And you had to go private to get hearing aids as the NHS had a long waiting list due to covid! But in October 2021 your life changed again when you got a cochlear implant for one ear! The problem was you needed two CI's but the NHS said you were too old & would only give you one! But in every new video you became more & more confident! The first video had you with whistling hearing aids,that was almost the last thing I ever heard as my hearing all but went! But you decided to go to university in 2022! To learn BSL & Spanish & maybe other stuff? I am no BSL expert as I have a form of dyslexia & auditory processing disorder which means I cannot learn BSL,maybe a few basic words! But your signing in this video looked very good! It was like you have been deaf all your life! What I did learn is you cannot lipread a person when they are signing! All the different facial expressions,your tongue doing stuff! Sorry it's hard to explain! I was lucky I had the transcript to follow! In my long dyslexic reply 🤣what I am trying to say is you should be proud of yourself Nelle,deafness has opened a new world & Career maybe being an interpreter? This is why every deaf person that would benefit two cochlear implants should write to their MP or the health minister & get the ruling changed! Nelle is having to use a go fund me page to raise money to have her other ear implanted! Companies like phonak have amazing hearing devices! But unless you go private or your lucky enough to find a hospital that does phonak hearing aids you get what your given! Sorry my reply is long but Nelle is one of many young people that would do better with a second implant! If she was under 18 she would have had two implants by now & maybe hear more in noisy surroundings! Her hearing aid can only amplify hearing if there is any left! ☹️☹️
So helpful for those who desire to live a balanced life. Great points reinforce our uses of #PHONAK hearing solutions for our patients. Thanks for sharing.
I freaking love your videos Jessica! You always brighten my day and, like you mentioned, you always remind me that I am not alone as a person who is hard-of-hearing.
I started using herbs medicine which I ordered from dr Ogbebor he shipped it to me and gave me instructions on how to use the herbal ear drops along with a diet routine which he instructed me to go on, after 3 weeks I regained my hearing completely and the continuous ringing in my head has stopped …hope for all✅✅
The word beautiful isn’t strong enough to describe this wonderful back and forth with mom and child. The tear ducts are working overtime watching this.
this is a huge relief for me cause my tinnitus has gotten worse resently and I think it was alot to do with my mental healt and my neck but I have been worried that I might go deaf with it getting higher but can it get so high that you cant hear anything but that sound or does the sound have a limit? thank you for the infomariton about tinnitus!
Hi Nelle💗that was a very interesting video! There are a lot of people out there who for example are deaf like yourself & would find it scary going to university & not knowing what they would find! But you have shown there is help out there! And you will soon make other deaf friends! Plus you have shown you have the same chances at getting a degree as a non deaf person! It does not matter if you were born deaf or lost your hearing later in life! You get treated the same plus you made it clear there are benefits for disabled people 💗💗
Lovely video, would have appreciated to hear these encouraging words during my own time in Unfortunately the university I went to wasn't very accommodating at all. So it's nice to see someone speaking out about your rights to a good education, no matter the hearing situation.
Nelle, if you don’t mind me asking, what do you think happened? I’m experiencing hearing loss myself, I’m 45 and think it was noice induced. Great video, really inspiring!!!
Hi Nelle💗I usually follow you on your usual you tube channel but it was nice watching this short video of your deaf journey! Being profoundly deaf myself I know what your going through,they say things happen for a reason,we will never know if it was not for COVID whether your hearing could have been saved if treated sooner! But some luck was on your side when you were told you were suitable for a cochlear implant! And I have to give credit where credit is due for the way you have made the most of the implant & even gone to university,if you had not lost your hearing would you have gone to university & studied BSL? The downside is the NHS will only pay for one ear to be implanted as your over 18 which is totally wrong! You have proved that a second implant would help so now your having to do a go fund me to raise money for the other ear to be implanted! So we need to write to either our local MP or the health secretary to get the criteria changed! With all the upheaval in the government lately I have waited to write to my MP,we are lucky that a lot of NHS hospitals issue phonak hearing aids but others do cheaper aids! Or only issue one,Nelle is right she has done well to get phonak equipment as they are the best! But what she did not say was when she first went deaf & needed hearing aids the NHS had a 6mth waiting list so she had to go private for her hearing aids,hence her getting phonak if I am not mistaken before getting NHS hearing aid! I have worn hearing aids for over 30 years & never phonak as my hospital would not supply them! To this day some non deaf people think once you get hearing aids you get back normal hearing! Just like normal sight with glasses! Nelle is one of those people that did not let losing her hearing ruin her life! In a way with the help of modern technology she has done better than if she still had hearing! It gives hope to other newly deaf people 💗💗💗
