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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Guilty

Music and Hearing loss Springsteen, Maria Callas, the Blues Brothers and Angela Gheorghiu fill my (now unused) Ipod along with my other favourites. Being a biker I’ve spent many, many, nights in bars where music drowned out the sounds of bikes, and Sue spent quite a few with me. Until about 8 years ago, when […]

A silver lining – if you wait long enough

Hearing loss and British Sign Language (BSL) classes Strange how things work out. For the past three years Sue and I have been trying to learn BSL. First evening course we enrolled in (not cheap, when a deaf person needs signing it’s a shame the costs are so high – I know nothing’s free, but…) […]

A friendly face

Hearing loss, balance issues, gestures and expressions Going out ‘in public’ has been a real problem, especially when the Meniere’s was at its worse and Sue regularly had loss of balance and spin/drop attacks. Holding her hand at all times has been a wonderful way of supporting her physically and emotionally. The simple act of […]

A little light relief

Communicating at night in the car We make a long, daily, trip in the car which in winter means we spend a lot of time driving in the dark when Sue can’t see my face. Without lipreading Sue is isolated and dark journeys meant we struggled to ‘talk’ which shut Sue out. Turn on the […]

Make changes and adapt

Tony Long offers useful, interesting and thought-provoking insights about how he has learnt to adapt to his wife’s, Sue's, hearing loss.