Me and my husband are featured on the cover of the January/February edition of the Hearing Loss Magazine which is from HLAA (Hearing Loss Association of America). We talked about our relationship, how we met and how we became friends and later became a couple and now happily married!

Here is the front cover of the magazine! This is actually our engagement photo! :)

We wanted others to hear about how we met, how we struggle with our hearing losses and how supportive we are to each other. 

Here is the story cover...

We had a wonderful photographer named Cindy Dyer and her friend Ed. They captured wonderful photos of our wedding day and couldn't be more happier with them!!!! You can check out Cindy's blog here. Cindy is also the photographer and the graphic designer for the Hearing Loss magazine as well!!

If you are itching to read our story... the cover story is in PDF format here!

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If you are a current member of the HLAA, you should be getting the Hearing Loss Magazine every two months.

Check out the first edition of 2012! Me and my husband are featured in the magazine. We talked about our challenges of our hearing loss and how we met! We hope you will enjoy our story and inspire others!

Check back soon to see the PDF of the magazine on the blog!!!!

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Yea, I decided to do a before and after comparison analysis.  I want to see how much I can understand and full hear with my hearing aids with worsening hearing and how much I can hear after my Cochlear Implant Surgery.

I may be ahead of myself here, but I am so curious.  I really want to document the good and the bad things I can or cannot hear.

From Michael Chorost's video, he mentioned that he learned how to hear all over again by reading and listening to Winnie the Pooh - Books on Tape/CD.  This inspired me to start my comparison.

Last week on Saturday, I went to Daedalus Book Warehouse Outlet in Columbia and started my search for children's books on tape.  My friend offered to take me there since she spoke very highly about it.  I went there....Nada, Nothing!

I decided to go to the library and get a few movie soundtracks, like Aladdin and Annie.  And I was curious if my local library had children's books on tape.

This woman took me back to the kiddie section and viola!  I have never seen SO MANY children's books on tape in my life!  I was in heaven!  I pulled a few out, like the Berenstain Bears, a book that I loved as a kid, read majority of their collection.

I am hoping over the weekend, I will try one of the books on tape and write an analysis.  Keep an eye out!

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I took the time to get my two audiograms scanned, one from 2005 and the other from this year (2009).  You can see the difference in my db loss.  My left ear is currently stable at 100db and my ear went down from 75 to 100 db.  I had a CT scan to see if I had Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome.  The scans came with these findings: Unremarkable CT scan of the temporal bones.  Specifically, no evidence for enlargement of the vestibular aqueducts.  Damn, back to square one.  I really would like to find out the cause of my hearing loss at birth and the cause for the sudden drop.  I guess only time will tell.

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