tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post1816047893484012804..comments2023-08-14T16:10:38.074+02:00Comments on Adornments for Dreams: Just visiting, in the world of the deafAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post-29332883422410609802012-05-26T09:00:24.479+02:002012-05-26T09:00:24.479+02:00Dear Tanya,
Thank you for your wise words. You are...Dear Tanya,<br />Thank you for your wise words. You are so right. You can live with a hearing impairment or loss if you get a little help from those around you. Just a little detail like looking directly at a person's face when you are speaking helps him or her to see that you are trying to say something. Many people actually look away when they are speaking to someone and those sounds are lost and you can't even try to read their lips.<br /><br />Wikipedia's article about Beethoven, mentions that after he became totally deaf, he wrote talking books with his friends; he wrote down his thoughts or questions and others replied by writing down their answers in his book.<br /><br />Necessity is the mother of invention! There are ways of solving some everyday problems.<br /><br />But, still I really feel for Beethoven. What a terrible loss for a musician. It is understandable that he could feel depressed at times. He wrote a symphony called 'The Ode to Joy', in which an enormous choir sings the German word for joy, <i>Freude</i>, in a way that is no mistaking what it means.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing, Tanya!<br /><br />Best wishes & hugs,<br />AnnaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post-40930706862482317202012-05-25T21:10:11.922+02:002012-05-25T21:10:11.922+02:00I often suffer with my ears blocking up but have b...I often suffer with my ears blocking up but have become used to it. My mum has always had problems with her hearing and she has a cousin who became deaf after having meningitis when she was two. My boss is also deaf and wears hearing aids. I think it's more difficult if you develop hearing problems when you are older...none of the people I know have issues about not being able to hear...they just get on with their lives as normal. My Mum's cousin was issued with hearing aids once but didn't wear them for more than a day as her children were way to loud as they had grown up used to her deafness..lolTanya.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08436595615435609755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post-39330845170427551192012-05-24T23:54:14.089+02:002012-05-24T23:54:14.089+02:00Dear Lisa,
Thank you for your comment. I feel so ...Dear Lisa,<br /><br />Thank you for your comment. I feel so sorry for your son when he was little. I hope that his hearing is alright today.<br /><br />To prevent the ear drum from rupturing, they sometimes stick a small hole in the ear drum to drain the infection. My nephew had this done.<br /><br />But couldn't they have given your son some kind of antibiotic to reduce the infection? As a mother, you must have felt badly for him. Poor little fellow.<br /><br />This is my very first ear infection ever, and it is probably pretty mild. My ear never bled. It hurt; but the antibiotics probably prevented it from getting that big and rupturing.<br /><br />What has been tricky about this infection is the fact that my sense of balance has been affected. I feel as though I am walking on a tight rope. I fell off my bicycle. I could not keep it upright. My bike just fell over with me still in it. It was as if I no longer knew how to ride a bike. Sometimes I feel like I like I am falling down and I am only walking from the kitchen to the bedroom.<br /><br />Remember James Stewart in that Alfred Hitchcock movie, <i>Vertigo</i>? It's something like that.<br /><br />Thank you, dear friend, for your kind visit!<br />Hugs,<br />AnnaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17926688000745346961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1712353207460785993.post-40216603291051972862012-05-24T20:53:19.055+02:002012-05-24T20:53:19.055+02:00Oh sweetie! I sure hope your ear gets better! Aw...Oh sweetie! I sure hope your ear gets better! Awesome article, by the way. I've always been partial to Beethoven (and Bach). I knew about the deafness, but that little story about the applause was awesome!<br /><br />Ear infections are no picnic. I never had them, but my son had them so bad his ears would bleed when he was little. His eardrums kept rupturing. Of course, at the time, I couldn't afford surgery for him, but he made out okay. I hope you do too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com