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From: Jack.O'keeffe@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe)
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Subject: Re: Hi all.
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Date: 20 Jul 90 20:19:44 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Welcome aboard, Bill.  I enjoyed reading your post, and it sure
sounds to me like you've come to the right place.  The campers
here are ASL Deaf, Oral deaf, hard of hearing, and a few hearing
friends.  The experiences you described sound really familiar
to us, like "De ja vu all over again" :-)

 BS>  totally deaf in my left ear and have partial loss in
 BS>  the right ear, which apparently after years of being stable is

Every hearing loss is different, but yours sounds quite similar to
mine.  I'll bet you have trouble conversing with the driver when
you're riding in the front passenger seat of a car :-)

 BS>  They want to put me in a multi cross hearing aid but
 BS>  that will have to wait awhile as insurance will not pay

I'm wearing a Telex 350 Wireless Bi-Cros, which maybe you ought
to look at when the time comes.  I went thru a lotta different
hardware before finding this.  Mine has a really good T-Coil
that helps a lot with assitive listening systems.

Most health insurance is worthless when it comes to hearing aids.
But check with Mass OVR.  They might help if you need the aid to
do your job.

Have you connected with SHHH (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People)
yet, Bill?  A few of us SilentTalkers recently returned from the
SHHH convention in Little Rock.  It's hard to describe the special
feeling one gets when surrounded by hundreds of other hearing
impaired people in a setting like that.  (Tho Frank Hickenbothem
did a fine job of describing it on this echo a few days ago.)
But it's like hearing loss is the norm, and the hearing people
are the oddballs.  All of us deserve a chance to experience that!

... HI-HoH Silver, Awayyyyy!

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