Hearing Things For The First Time // Vlogmas 2020 Episode 1 [CC] 

Thank you, I was panicking already

The link to the time code in the video when it starts isn’t in the description(if that makes sense) i just wanted to let you know

I made my phone christmassy so my lock screen is mostly christmassy pictures of you XD

thanks I have slow processing speed and need them to follow along your like the only one who always has them

Watching typically pulled together and totally classy Jessica SCREAMING at loud noises had me grinning ear to ear!

We saw this on her reels and it was magic 💛

A colleague got new hearing aids recently and it made her realise just how bad her hearing loss had got. She came out of the office once (I was on reception) and asked what the people in the next room were going with the door. They had just opened and closed it normally but it was so much louder than she was used to she thought they had slammed it.

I know! I'm so happy for her! I feel so happy for her happiness!

When she said she heard birds on her Instagram 💗 birds chirping is one of those sounds that are just so special to me.

I'm not a regular viewer: but I wonder, why she didn't get hearing aids sooner? Doesn't insurance cover them in the UK? I'm not meaning to be disrespectful.

Was looking whether there's other happy audiologists here 😂 Its my favourite when people come back with a big smile telling me they can hear birds or something they haven't heard in years.

I used to suffer from a mild form of hear loss and tinitus, so this gave me a bit hope and lots of feelings of happiness for Jess! Trust me, it is so weird and sad to be in a position of a person who out of nowhere stops hearing normal sound while some are super loud and makes you crazy..... I was scared, had to stay in the hopital for 12 days... I had doctors telling me that if there is no change in 6 days, I am doomed. I feel so happy to be able to hear sounds now as I used to! I had very little support. I have a huge respect for doctors, for all people loosing hearing or sight. It is truely scary and for them necessary to have people who support them more than anything else in the whole world. Thank you for your work! It is higly appreciated ❤️😊

This reminds me of my daughter when she got her first pair of glasses @ 5 yrs old. She was amazed at the details in the trees and the bark and all if that.

Riight? "Falling sensation" I never thought of it that way, but spot on.

@Jules Herbert Also the Rubik's cube (made entirely of plastic) makes "a wooden sound", but somehow she hears that there is an unmoving part in the middle?? I only know that because I took one apart once.

Almost as if she’s blind. 😉

Same

“it’s crunkling!”

Clever woman!

Agreed! This was really amazing!

Give her a year and she'll be a master lock picker

Seriously!

Definitely. To me it just sounds like a Plastic-y shuffling noise, but because I'm hearing and am familiar with that sound, I'd probably recognise it. Jessica doesn't have that experience.

it's a retrieval cue!!

@@amberdaze7892 ah, cool! There’s a word for it!

Amazingggg, that's so interesting!!

Very true

Totally what I said driving home from the optometrist when I was 7!

This is exactly what I said! Along with "Mom! There are birds!! I mean like i can see the birds!!"

lmao i remember when i first got my glasses, the thing that struck me most was a clock in the shop that had accents in a dull yellow and blurry edges i thought were probably rounded but once i put my glasses on it turned golden with sharp edges i couldn't stop looking at it from over the glasses and then through them to compare and spot the differences. i wasn't a fan of the headache i caught within the rest of the day tho :|

@@mscowable being able to see birds blew my little mind!

I know! It's like she's gone "What will get me into the Christmas spirit? I know - repeatedly terrifying my Deaf girlfriend!"

@@sianthesheep You mean "wife"?

@@sianthesheep wife ...

Jessica: There are noises and I am not appreciative nor did I expect.

@@NightOwlReader2790 Yes, wife! I was having a POTS brain moment!

The “mechanical, wooden sort of sound” was how I’d describe it too!

I was mind blown too when she said there was a part of it not moving like how could she hear that thatˋs truly impressive...

It is such a mood!

describes me my whole life frankly but this year in particular

@@GBfanatic15 same

I started a 2020 journal (just me writing down everything happening) several months ago and I didn’t even make it all the way through March before lowkey giving up

Thanks! I couldn't figure out what "boiled sweets" were ^_^;

and Swedes say karamell about that type of candy. :)

Was just about to ask!

@@WateryStar I'm American and was lost too!

I had no idea Americans called it hard candy. In Australia we say lolly for candy/sweet so it's a boiled lolly.

and i’m excited for you!! disabled solidarity here 💕💕💕

Glad to hear you are recovering. It can be a long road.

Wynne! Hello!

Agreed!

Reasonable goals, yay!

Yes! I'm very thankful. I couldn't have seen it otherwise.

Yes big same.

so true! was about to comment this myself :)

😂 I know right!

Having grown up with 60% hearing loss and regaining a lot of it after an operation as a child and going through a similar experience again when getting hearing aids as an adult, I can say that when you get a sudden step up in hearing ability you actively hear more than 'normal' hearing people for a while until you adjust. This is because your brain needs to learn from all the new sound it can now hear, which sounds are 'normal background' that don't need to be noticed too much. Before that happens it triggers all new sounds as 'high alert full attention hear this' processing. I actually was told by the Dr to not wear my hearing aids in louder setting like by a road until my brain had re-trained some background noise out so I didn't get overwhelmed and scared. I also understand Jess's terror at the slightly louder sounds. I was terrified to flush the loo for months after the operation as a child because of how loud and scary it sounded. I would literally run to the other end of the house to make the sound as quiet as possible! Congratulations Jess on your new hearing abilities, it is so magical to hear new things xx

@@growley333 me and my mum were talking about this the other day. When she first got her hearing aids fitted she could hear people talking across the room as if they were talking right behind her

@@growley333 That makes a lot of sense, thank you for sharing💙

It is & they're really good from what I see 👍

What are the hearing aids they look amazing

me too! at least i think so, they’re very similar :)

@@maggiestaunton you can see the info at 4:34 , they're called Resound

My grandpa has an older versiin of the ones Jessica wears but without phone controls and chargable batteries.

Iconic 💖

12:42

Yes, it was so funny!

I love your pfp

@@Ash-kw2nd jkjksqjskjhahh thanx

Yes!!

@Ozzy the Bun 😂😂😂

As a deaf audiologist I was freaking out myself on some of those sounds 🇦🇺🤓🧏🏽‍♀️

It's not makeup witchcraft, it's just witchcraft

I think I remember her using revlon's liquid lipsticks or rimmel or something like that? I have the same product and it stays so we'll!

I don't remember exactly what she uses, but the KVD matte liquid lip doesn't move. Try that.

She used to use Maybelline's Super Stay Matte, and when she tested clean beauty stuff I think she liked the Beauty Bakerie or something like that? But yes, KVD Vegan beauty also does amazing liquid lipsticks.

@@carameldare while this is true, i found it sooo drying

Until she takes them out for a bath 👀😂

@@coramcvey270 Unless she was going to get her head wet, she wouldn't necessarily have to take them out.

@Hellena Rose I see your point, but in my experience it's usually insurance trying to wiggle out of having to pay the doctors more than it is the doctors refusing to take it. They just want to get paid, they don't actually care whether the money came from you or the insurance company. As for the anxiety inhaler, do you happen to remember what the medicine it had was? There are actually a few inhalant medications that have been shown to be effective at treating anxiety, so it was most likely one of those.

In my case it depends on the problem. If it correlates exactly with my stress level, I assume it's just stress. If it persists even when I'm less stressed, that's when I generally assume there's some underlying problem. Like my irritable bowel syndrome, which my primary doctor insisted was just stress, and would go away in six months or less, every time I brought it up for the two years that it went untreated! :D Then I got fed up with asking her about it and made appointments with several specialists without a recommendation from from my primary care doctor (which meant insurance wouldn't cover it) to find out why the left side of my lower abdomen was swollen and distended with pain in the swollen area off and on. Now I have some medications that seem to be helping some, but I'm still not sure if that's actually my only problem... Is this related to stress - probably! But even if you know something's caused or worsened by stress, after a certain point and a certain level of pain, you should still seek help. And if something really freaky happens out the blue, go see a doctor, obviously. Examples of really freaky: a large lump that doesn't go away (possibly cancer - happened to my mom,) severe abdominal pain after being struck in the stomach by a rogue basketball, followed by nausea that doesn't go away (turned out to be appendicitis - happened to me,) difficulty breathing after being stuck in the chest by another rogue basketball (turned out to be a cracked sternum - also happened to me,) sudden loss of sensation in limbs despite being able to move them, accompanied by aching joints, nausea, chills, and abdominal pain (no one figured out what that one was, but they gave me pain killers at the hospital, did some bloodwork, and monitored my vitals, until I started to recover after about six hours, so they just told me to come back if it happened again)

@Hellena Rose because not proven and American health care insurance is a joke in general

I love advent calendars! Me, my mom and sister made one with small gifts for my grandparents this year. Because it’s not going to be a normal Christmas. Highly recommend, it was loads of fun

@@IQzminus2 aw that is a fun and very sweet idea.

HAHHAHAHHA well... not sure that's correct

*sending hugs*

Good for you! My dad is "blind" (most aren't 100% blind) and he's been making me pick up the slack for decades...kind of annoying, like when someone asks you to translate everything someone else says

idk if u saw but her wife is pregnant

👶

And you! :)

Fancy seeing you here