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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Communication; the universal solvent or a sticky subject?

I picked Chris and one of his mates up from school; they are going to the park. I’m driving. The plan is they’ll be staying at the park while I walk down with Jess (our dog) to pick up Alex. Halfway down the hill Chris and his mate start jumping around in the car. They are […]

For thinking out loud!

It’s official; I am strange! I’ve noticed quite a few times in the last few weeks that people have been looking at me oddly. Yesterday in Tesco for example; I was standing near the fridge where they keep the cold meats. As usual it was very busy, not only with shoppers but also with staff […]

Relax, don’t do it

Aah, Centre Parcs with the boys. We have arrived in the late afternoon after an unplanned detour caused by missing roundabouts and signposts. I’m a very good map-reader and it was definitely not my fault. Despite our lateness there are queues about half a mile long to check in. We have already checked in via […]

Spread The Word. Part 2

Just so you all know, there’s no planning going on here. I make it up as I go along, which applies to most of my life actually. Sue was telling me after I sent the previous blog over about something her friend, Michelle (a Physioterrorist ……… Physiotherapist), had told her about work. A deaf patient […]

What will Father Christmas bring this year?

Aw, we are entering the first week of xmas, a special time for my family and me. Not for religious reasons, but because for the last few years, xmas time for one reason or another has been a time of change. Three years ago when my hearing was bad, but with a lot of effort […]

Spread The Word. Part 1

I’m sure everyone has discussed Sainsbury’s intention to make life easier for those with hearing difficulties by teaching (a few? Some? Most?) staff sign language. That’s a great idea and I applaud the company not just because it makes life easier in their stores but because it should encourage other businesses to follow the lead. […]

Two across and six down

It wasn’t long after Alex my eldest started big school, he lost the rugby kit and because it was a new school he didn’t know where he left it. ‘Could be anywhere’ he informed me solemnly. As rugby sessions came and went, it was clear I had to do something about it, but I was […]