I’M 29 AND I HAVE THE HEARING OF AN 80 YEAR OLD. HERE’S MY - TopicsExpress

I’M 29 AND I HAVE THE HEARING OF AN 80 YEAR OLD. HERE’S MY STORY. 360 million people suffer from hearing loss across the world. This includes 3.5 million Australians – and I’m one of them. As Hearing Awareness Week kicked off on Monday, I thought it would be a great time to share my story. In my late teens, I was classified as being hearing impaired with profound hearing loss in both ears of high frequencies. To this day we still don’t know the cause. At the time, I didn’t think much of it as I had managed to get through high school with the occasional, “Sorry?” and “What?” I was a teen after all – I wasn’t supposed to be concentrating most of the time! For many years I refused to believe it affected me. I refused to wear hearing aids as I didn’t like the look of them. Because I never committed to them, I didn’t realise how much they would help. I was in denial, a common occurrence in those with hearing loss. It wasn’t until I met the girl of my dreams that I finally had the motivation to change. She encouraged me to look past my superficial worries, and accept that I needed hearing aids to get the most out of life. From that day forward, I made progress. I had the courage to work in customer facing roles and even worked in a call centre! Did you know that only 10-20 per cent of people who could benefit from hearing aids actually wear them? It’s a real shame, and this stigma is exactly what we are trying to educate about in Hearing Awareness Week. These days, I can’t leave the house without my hearing aids in, and I am constantly looking at what’s new in hearing tech. One of the options for me is getting a Hybrid Cochlear Implant. A cochlear implant is an electronic medical device that does the work of damaged parts of the inner ear (cochlea) to provide sound signals to the brain. There’s a 25 per cent chance that I’ll lose the natural hearing I have now, but it could potentially change my life for the better. More at exchange.telstra.au/2014/08/27/im-29-and-i-have-the-hearing-of-an-80-year-old-heres-my-story/

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