Deaf dh any one with same?????

[mummymelling]

Hi there,very new to this , anyone else got a Deaf dh, ???

DISTEL, we live in a village 3miles outside of Bath,nr Radstock

Do you find the hospital helpful?

Sorry Distel who was that question for ?

mummymelling. We had to have ds tested at the R.U.H as he failrd his hearing test. I find it incredible and very humbling when you hear how other peole live.

I moan about so much in everyday life, makes me realise how lucky I am.

DISTEL..Its not bad. All audiology units within the NHS across the country need updating and imoproving. Not entirly their fault cos of stupid managers who have no idea about the department making up stupid rules. They have lost my hearing test records twice now so best to get a copy off them and keep it somewhere safe.

Mummy Melling Darling, wonderful, incrediably sexy husband!

Just in case you didnt guess that was DH putting in his twopenneth lol

(Goegteach - used NDCS website lots to start, but less so now. Was v useful for general info as diagnosis was very sudden and we were quite confused by everything. DD failed neonatal screening twice then diagnosed with hearing impairment at 6 weeks, profound at 7, aided at 9. Is your ds profoundly deaf/implanted?)

my mum was born partially deaf - the hairs in her ears don't stand up, they lie flat and so they don't pick up sound properly.

She wore hearing aids at school and hated them. Partially cos they made her stand out but also cos she said they were heavy and the amplified sound hurt.

She lip reads very well and although was told she could never become a teacher she has now been one for over thirty years!

She still won't wear hearing aids as she finds the extra noise too confusing and painful. However as she can hear a bit and lipreads well it isn't too much of a problem.

Embarassing confession - I didn't realise my mum had hearing problems until I was a teenager and someone pointed it out. I had always done things like stamp on the floor when I wanted her attention, but I didn't really notice anything different between her and other parents.

Catrin, DS1 is severely deaf, possibly deteriorating. He was diagnosed at 3 and wears hearing aids which luckily for us he loves and work well for him.

Hi MM

My dh is deaf and has hearing aids. I've read all the thread now.

We got the baby monitor for hearing but to be honest its really expensive and we didn't buy it. It was a present for when our dd (6 months) was born. I have found that our dd has to be screaming for the alarm to go off. So its good if I am not there but no use if we are both in.

I haven't got a smoke alarm etc for deaf and should. If I stay out somewhere or work late I make dh stay up till I am home or my younger brother stays or dh stays at his parents!

I am there with you on the snoring in bed ha ha! x

this is a great thread, my DH also has hearing problems, not completely deaf but struggles to hear high frequencies (in otherwords - me )

Currently uses a songbird hearing aid (very small, fits just inside the ear and makes him look as if he is working undercover for the FBI), but they are going out of production soon.

Looking for an alternative, he doesn't want to go bavk to the NHS style external hearing aids, but all the other options seem so expensive.

Don't know whether a cochlear implant would help in his case though, we've never been offered it

Miss polly

He will never know about a CI as long as he is giving money to robbers and thieves like Hidden hearing and the likes. ( I speak from experience)

He needs to go back to the NHS, they now do ITE (In the ear), digital aids, in most areas.

We're the other way around. Dh has very sensitive hearing and I'm the deaf one. I started losing my hearing in my 20's and now wear 2 hearing aids. I'd love digital hearing aids but I've been warned that the waiting list around here is 18mths-2yrs.

Hi Sherlock, his songbird has been fantastic though, so we didn't mind the monthly fee. Can't remember how we ended up with one, but probably got a bit disheartened with the NHS. Will go back though and start insisting (and I'll tell em you sent us )

my dh has selective hearing.
he hears beer, sex, xbox, food ok but not much else.
then gets upset when i wont repeat myself.

So glad this thread is getting a small but devoted following!!! lmao , thanks for the info on baby alarms, im going to start working 2 nights a week ,so thought they would be handy, but if the kids need to be screaming, well by that point they would have got up and got into bed with DH, so he would be aware of them...

Karenj1980 ... what part of the country do you live in???

MM - My dd is 6 months and apart from trying to walk in her baby walker there is no way DH can be woken iyswim apart from the alarm.

I am in Aldershot in Hampshire.

Its my 2nd year Wedding Anniversary and I could just wake him up right now and tell him how much I love him but then I can't can I?!!! The things that are restricted - but I do really love him!

Sherlock - Thank you so much for your opinion on Hidden Hearing. I have found them to be so expensive. My DH parents were paying and they always seemed to be buying new ones for him. And its great sometimes that he can hear a little better with the newer ones, but the price of them is SHOCKING!

By the way MM and anyone else out there - have you noticed that TESCO sell the hearing aid batteries in the battery section. They are much cheaper than hidden hearing - 24 hours (fantastic) and you get points!

MM - It is fantastic to know that there are others out there. I'm very proud of my DH.

Do you go to any subtitled shows at the cinema?

sometimes we go to cinema ,but they always show at such odd times,like nobody deaf ever works!!!!.im really proud of what my hudh has acheived,he never thought he would marry, and we got married 1st july06, he works for Seeability a charity for visually impaired with learning disabilities. we get his batteries from audiology a box at a time, he used ti buy them but they are free from there

my DH spends a small fortune on DVDs because they have subtitles in them.

Hi MM

Where do you live then?

I work for a cinema lol, so the best thing is to contact them in a nice way and ask. They normally do the films on a Monday - whats your local one?

Congratulations on your wedding day. My DH too thought he would never marry, have a job he loves and not just be "the deaf one" and is the top team member, and have a child.

Karen x

We live near Bath,have tried that with the Odeon and they wernt interested really ,besides it gives DH excuse to buy his DVDs lol,was your dh born Deaf or Deafened, did he attend mainstream school? mine did till 16 with a phu attatched then went to deaf boarding school [MARY HARE] till he was19, [hes 31 now] we are trying for our 1st baby together ,but he is DAD to my 4yr and 2yr old

He doesn't know if born deaf as he passed all tests till age 3 or 4.

I'll speak to the team at Bath - Any preferences of films coming out soon? I know the Manager personally x