If one doesn’t take into consideration that I’m female and thereby batshit crazy one week out of every month, I am a relatively stable and normal person.
Heh. I don’t care what the shrink says. I’m well-adjusted.
My husband likes to point out to me (usually when he’s been drinking and feeling particularly brave) that if I [...]
It has been shown that alcohol temporarily effects hearing ability, so don’t have any important conversations over a drink. Recently British researchers discovered that when your alcohol level rises till 0,08 per mill, your hearing threshold is lowered by 15 decibels on average. This is equal to the effect of wearing ear plugs. And according [...]
Do you often find yourself asking everybody to repeat what they said? Has it gotten harder to talk to someone in a noisy, crowded place? Do you notice a ringing in your ears when everything is quiet?
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Ringing in the ear (tinnitus) Ear infection Hearing loss The ear we see attached to the side of the head is only part of the wonderful mechanism that allows us to hear the world around us. The sounds of the birds chirping, water rushing downstream, and the breeze gently moving through the trees are made possible by the interaction of sound vibrations, liquid vibrations, and electrical impulses.These sounds enter the outer ear, that is, the structure that you and I know as our ears. These vibrations place pressure on the ear drum which is inside the middle ear. There are some small bones inside this middle portion of the ear, named the hammer, anvil, and stirrup. They conduct the vibrations from outside the ear to the ear drum and increase the intensity by seventeen times. Farther in the ear, there is the cochlea which looks like a small snail shell and acts to receive sound vibrations. Vibration continues to travel by passing through the liquid contained in the snail shell, like the mo
By: aseya He played the raging green monster “The Incredible Hulk” in the '70s TV series of the same title. Thanks to his glossy credentials as a bodybuilder, he got the part. Lou Ferrigno was named Mr. Universe in 1973 and again in 1974. Ferrigno appeared as himself alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1977 bodybuilding documentary “Pumping Iron.” The next year, he began his five-season run as The Hulk (1978-82), paired with Bill Bixby as The Hulk's mild-mannered alter ego, David Banner. After The Incredible Hulk ended, Ferrigno went on to other musclebound roles, including Hercules in Hercules (1983) and Sinbad in Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989).But during his younger years, “The Incredible Hulk” had another alias --- “Deaf Louie.” He got the nickname from his hearing peers who teased him for being hard of hearing (HOH). Ferrigno lost much of his hearing after suffering from an ear infection as an infant. The constant ridicule from his hearing friends proved so ha
From the too good to be true file.
Is there any truth to the rumour that the sales of Viagra increased 18 fold with the news that it could impair hearing?
A story is here: Impotence drugs may silence love’s sweet song.
Researchers at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, India, revealed that people who talk on a cell phone for more than an hour a day were found to have suffered losses of high-frequency hearing. While that may not sound so bad, such hearing loss actually results in an inability to hear consonants like F and T, giving a whole new spin to the phrase "Can you hear me now?"The team of researchers caution that "[their] intention is not to scare the public" and "there is as yet no cause for alarm." They also don't give any explanation of why a cell phone is any more dangerous for hearing than a traditional headset. But, if you're a heavy cell phone user and value your (or your children's) hearing, you might want to think about laying off the babbling a bit.The UKers at the Royal National Institute for Deaf People tested 110 random people and found that 72 of them were listening above an unsafe level: 85 decibels, the level at which prolonged listeni
The Moog Center for Deaf Education in St. Louis will be hosting a Parent Education Workshop July 18 – 22, 2007. The workshop is for parents and their children with hearing loss ages birth to 5. Each day is packed full of activities for the children and information for the parents.
Children over age 2 are welcome to attend with their parents. Children 3 and up can be scheduled to have speech and language evaluations. The workshop session meets daily from 9-3. The adults will have classes in their professional education room and the children will meet in classes, divided by age and language ability. They will have a 1:1 ratio of adult to child and each child will receive daily individual instruction by a staff member of the Moog Center.
Everyone will meet together for lunch, provided by the Moog Center. Afternoons allow time for naps and weather permitting, the children will enjoy water play.
This will be their ninth year doing this workshop and it just keeps getti
I went to a pub for an evening out and I was so irritated with the sound levels that I took my hearing aids out for the entire evening. It was a class move! Of course I was with people that use sign language so the loud noise and very loud music weren’t really an issue. We probably found communication a lot easier than all the hearing people in the pub. So being deaf can have some advantages, it seems. I could just pick up a faint bass rhythm so it was actually a relaxing evening for me, I usually hate noisy pubs.
I’m sure hearing people have no idea or appreciation of what it’s like to not hear properly. Well, have a look at the hearing loss demonstrations - it would be nice to know what you think. My hearing loss is profound - it’s a bottom feeder, crawling along the bottom of the chart shown, so you won’t be able to reproduce what I can hear. But this will give you some understanding of hearing loss, that sounds are not just quieter, they are also muff
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As we age, many people lose some hearing since the hair cells carrying sound to our auditory nerve often begin to die. Even though it is called “sensorineural hearing loss” the nerve is usually not damaged, but the hair cells are, resulting in hearing loss. In past generations, elders had to deal with the frustrating isolation and difficulties of worsening hearing. Group environments such as holiday get-togethers or restaurant gatherings became places to avoid. The television volume was cranked up so they could hear but was uncomfortable for other household members. In today’s society, there are many options for people with hearing loss including digital hearing aid technology, state-of-the-art assistive listening devices and cochlear implants.
Seniors often write to me asking for help with their deteriorating hearing loss. Time and again they are surprised to discover that they may be eligible candidates for cochlear implant surgery. Their age alone does not preclude
Oticon, Inc. is seeking nominations for its tenth annual Oticon Focus on People Awards. People with any degree of hearing loss are eligible. The national awards program, created by Oticon in 1998 honors hearing impaired students, adults and advocacy volunteers whose accomplishments demonstrate that hearing loss does not limit a person’s ability to make a difference in their families, their communities or the world.
For over ten years, Oticon has worked to change outdated stereotypes that discourage people from seeking professional help for their hearing loss by spotlighting people with hearing loss and their achievements and contributions. Since 1998, the program has awarded more than $150,000 to deserving individuals and the not-for-profit causes of their choice.
“We are proud to celebrate a decade of acknowledging the incredible contributions that people with hearing loss make in all walks of life, ” states Peer Lauritsen, President of Oticon, Inc. “We beli
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Parents of young deaf and hard of hearing children interested in teaching them to talk should know about “My Baby and Me - A Book About Teaching Your Child to Talk.” Used worldwide and written and developed by Betsy Moog Brooks of the Moog Center for Deaf Education, this is a both a terrifi
The March 2007 issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery published a Danish study of 663,963 children over a nine year period. The gist of study’s widely reported abstract is the claim that children born with severe hearing loss are five times (and possibly up to 12 times) more likely to develop meningitis. The main conclusion in the abstract is that parents and health care providers of children with hearing loss should be more alert for possible signs and symptoms of meningitis, and vaccination should be considered.
It is disturbing that the abstract makes no mention of the actual evidence upon which the researchers based their conclusions nor does it include complete information on the 39 children in the study identified with both hearing loss and meningitis. Did any of these particular children have a predisposition toward meningitis? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website states that “some people with hearing loss were made deaf b
Hearing loss quiz (http://rdoctor.com/Quiz/hearing_problems.htm) Hearing loss quiz – for wireless device (http://rdoctor.com/Quiz/hearing_problems_wml.wml) You talked to him. Right?He is deaf as a post.You tell him about the problem and he asks: What?What did you say? Say it again.”And you repeat all...
