Hearing Link Services blogs

Hearing Link Services is delighted to host a number of guest bloggers chronicling their unique and personal hearing loss journeys.

On this page there are posts from all our bloggers mixed together.

To read Tony Long’s blog about learning to adapt to his wife’s deafness, please visit this page.
To read Kirsteen Allison’s cochlear implant blog please visit this page.
To read Maggi Summerhill’s blog about family life and hearing loss please visit this page.

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The help

I have a PA. My lip reading skills seem to be getting worse; could be my brain is packing up out of sheer exhaustion or maybe it’s not even my fault. Truth is I have never been very good. I remember attending a lip reading class and the teacher was reading out silently from an article. […]

What are husbands for?

I’m in a mood at the moment. I do get like this sometimes. I am fed up starting every interaction with a human being with ‘I am deaf, but I will try and read your lips.’ First of all I hate repeating I am deaf all day and secondly I’m fed up with the reaction; […]

Feeling needed and wanted

The sun is shining this morning! I’ve had my first cup of coffee and am preparing three lunches, sandwiches and fruit, for Rob and the boys. First one to come into the kitchen is Chris, he mimics pants – ‘underpants’ I ask him. He nods. I put the knife down and find some pants in […]

It’s All In The Wrist Action.

Charlie, the farm cat, doesn’t like being picked up let alone being put in a carry box – come to that, he’s not a people cat either. But he does trust and adore Sue. When we get to the farm Charlie usually appears from nowhere and winds around Sue’s legs. I’m pleased to say he’s […]

Bank on it

Friday night, better get some cash out. Cash machine tells me it cannot perform the task at this time ‘please try again later’. I try again three seconds later, same message. ‘Damn Co-op cash machine’ I mutter to myself – from the stares I receive, maybe a little to loudly. I pick Chris and Alex […]

Let’s talk

I’d just come off the Internet after a long conversation with a friend and my youngest asked me something. For a fraction of a second I was confused, I mean; his lips were moving but no sound came out. I was about to shake my head, the way you do when you have water in […]

Do Tell Them.

As it was bitterly cold and trying to snow today Sue and I threw caution to the gale force wind and had lunch at Pizza Hut – bargain price lunchtime buffet with pizza and salad top ups as required. I tell you, we know how to live. Our server noticed Sue is deaf and provided […]