Living with vision and hearing loss!

I feel like it is easier to adapt a little better with hearing loss than it is with vision loss. I have lost more hearing  in the last seven years. So now I am an adult with hearing  loss. I was a teenager when I lost my vision. It took me a couple of years to really deal with the depression that comes with vision loss. I have adjusted quite well and it is all because of dealing with others who are deaf blind as well. Also trusting God through out all of it.

 

 

I’ve also have been put in touch with the Helen Keller National Center for the deaf blind. I never knew that there was so much support out there for the deaf blind.

 

I have met so many wonderful people who has helped and answered a lot of questions. I have had so many questions and they have been nothing but nice answering everything I have asked. I am so glad for all the support I have received.

 

Now wearing the hearing aids is a story in itself. The first thing is I have very small ears. So my hearing aids had to be made like a childs’ hearing aid. The part that goes down in the ear canal  kept coming out. So we decided to try a different ear mold and make it where didn’t go quite down in the ear canals but it fits like an  earbudd.

 Now these are working out really well. I have to adjust them but not as much as I did with the first  ear piece for the hearing aid. So now I am living life just a little bit easier.

 

The hearing aids are a big help to me because I do have a job and it requires me to use my hearing a lot.

 

I am also learning tactile sign language for the deaf blind.  As a teenager I learned the alphabette. So since I learned the alphabette I am well on my way to learning  tactile sign language.

 

 

I’m so excited to be able to communicate with other deaf blind people, who will become great friends. I really like networking and getting out there to make friends. It’s kind of hard at first but I make myself try hard and I forget about being shy.

 

I have to thank  God for some wonderful people in my life. Especially my friend  Lisa who taught me some sign language when I was a teenager.  Lisa and her husband have been working with the deaf and def blind for over 30 years now.  I am so glad we crossed paths many years ago.

 

God puts people in your life at the right  time.

 

Thank you for reading my  short blog. Until next time. KTF

 

Keep The Faith!

 

F forget!

A all!

I i’m!

T Trusting!

H Him!