Guilty Music and Hearing loss Springsteen, Maria Callas, the Blues Brothers and Angela Gheorghiu fill my (now unused) Ipod along with my other favourites. Being a biker I’ve spent many, many, nights in bars where music drowned out the sounds of bikes, and Sue spent quite a few with me. Until about 8 years ago, when […]
A silver lining – if you wait long enough Hearing loss and British Sign Language (BSL) classes Strange how things work out. For the past three years Sue and I have been trying to learn BSL. First evening course we enrolled in (not cheap, when a deaf person needs signing it’s a shame the costs are so high – I know nothing’s free, but…) […]
A friendly face Hearing loss, balance issues, gestures and expressions Going out ‘in public’ has been a real problem, especially when the Meniere’s was at its worse and Sue regularly had loss of balance and spin/drop attacks. Holding her hand at all times has been a wonderful way of supporting her physically and emotionally. The simple act of […]
A little light relief Communicating at night in the car We make a long, daily, trip in the car which in winter means we spend a lot of time driving in the dark when Sue can’t see my face. Without lipreading Sue is isolated and dark journeys meant we struggled to ‘talk’ which shut Sue out. Turn on the […]
Make changes and adapt Tony Long offers useful, interesting and thought-provoking insights about how he has learnt to adapt to his wife’s, Sue's, hearing loss.
