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.

Return to latest news & blogs

On The Big Screen

Hearing loss and cinema subtitles Sue recently mentioned she’d like to see the new Men in Black film on the big screen. She loved going to the cinema and we went whenever we could, especially when we were on holiday. I know Sue misses the whole experience, a DVD at home just isn’t the same. […]

Buenos Días Monsieur

Subtitling, dubbing and lipreading After a quick trip through the options on TV the other night, Sue picked a repeat of ‘Qi’, one we hadn’t watched all the way through. After a long day Sue prefers something easy to read and watch. I’d chosen Ben Kane’s second volume of the ‘Forgotten Legion Chronicles’ – good […]

What are men like?

I had my assessment days over two days at the Cochlear Implant Centre. When my appointment letter came through, it offered April, which was a pain as I had a holiday booked that same week. The assessment days were rearranged for May. The letter said it would be for a ‘pre op’ assessment plus a […]

You Say Potato and I Say Chips

Hearing loss and pronouncing words …For example; you’re abroad and speak a carefully practiced phrase in the language of that country to a local, only to be treated to an expression of puzzlement. A short pause ensues before you get a reply, in perfect English, ‘Ah, you mean … etc.’ and so your pronunciation is […]

About myself

Kirsteen is a working mum in Scotland writing about her cochlear implant and experiences of deafness. Read her blog.

Hearing Aids and Meniere’s

Hearing aids, air pressure and drop attacks Sue wears a hearing aid in her one working ear. Due the level of hearing loss and inability to process the lower end of the sound register, she can’t actually hear unless the sound source is within a foot of her ear. Also, the Meniere’s has left her […]

A Mare’s Tale

Hearing loss and good communication at the horse hospital I’ve avoided mentioning that Sue has a horse in case anyone thinks we have money to spare. Far from it, we have a horse so there is nothing to spare. We’re lucky, we’re able to keep her (the horse, not Sue) with friends and keep costs […]