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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I should have heard it coming

I nearly got killed earlier! We have two dogs, Remy the fox terrier and Jess the mmm…eh we’re not sure about that one. As I work from home, they spend all day with me and I take them for their walk, mostly in the morning. We live in the countryside and around here there are […]

Take that

I heard music this morning! I swear, it sounded perfectly like music; like an orchestra playing. Very jolly it was too. Unfortunately the music was some form of tinnitus and despite my most positive thinking and imagining I’m still deaf. What cruel brains we have. The tinnitus I’ve read about are sounds generated by our […]

Downtrodden Phone

Remember when choosing a mobile phone came down to size, colour and did you want the “snake game”? The specifications and options choice is long and baffling now and they all seem to do the same things anyway. At least that’s what I thought when we spoke with the sales advisor at the (not very) […]

‘No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.’ John Donne

I have always believed myself to be very independent and capable. I still am, but as I have lost my hearing and with that the ability to understand speech I have learnt to accept and appreciate help and support and the immense kindness of some people. In the summer I was to take part in […]

Watch your mouth

I cry sometimes. Different things can set me off, a remark: ‘you really have become very deaf’, someone giving me a shove to get past (most probably after asking me politely half a dozen times to stand aside), meeting up with friends and failing to take part in the conversation or just feeling tired and […]

Watch this

Not long ago my youngest had a friend over to play for the afternoon; they were running around playing ball and shooting each other and the friend had become very thirsty. Being a polite little boy, he asked me if he could have some water. As I had my back to him I didn’t hear […]

Don’t do as I do

We see our adopted grandfather almost every day. He has some age related deafness easily helped by hearing aids, but as he hates the things, he often takes them out and ‘forgets’ them, which is really frustrating as he becomes almost as deaf as me and in order to cope he has some very annoying […]