Posted in Fidos For Freedom, Meniere's disease, assistance dogs, cochlear implant, cochlear implants, deafness, dog related, hearing loss, service dogs, tagged assistance dog, cochlear implant, deafness, fetch, Fidos For Freedom, hard of hearing, hearing assistance dog, hearing loss, Meniere's disease, retrieve, service dog, shopping, working dog on October 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This morning I went to the grocery store. I hate to go on Fridays, but we were out of a few things that I couldn’t wait for at a later date. I went first thing in the morning, anxious to avoid the crowds that hit the grocery store on Friday afternoon.
Chloe was in rare form [...]
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Posted in Encouragement, assistance dogs, cochlear implant, deafness, dog related, family and friends, hearing loss, service dogs, tagged assistance dogs, cochlear implant, CODA, deafness, hearing loss, KODA, Meniere's disease, service dogs, working dogs on October 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Kyersten is a guest writer on Hearing Elmo and does a fantastic job (in THIS mom’s opinion) of relating what it is like being a CODA (child of deaf adult) or as she prefers it: KODA (Kid of deaf adult). I think it’s important that readers “hear” the OTHER opinions and thoughts about how deafness [...]
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Posted in Encouragement, Nucleus Freedom, assistance dogs, cochlear implant, cochlear implants, deafness, dog related, hearing loss, service dogs, tagged assistance dogs, canes, Cochlear Americas, cochlear implant, deafness, dizziness, Fidos For Freedom Inc., hearing loss, Meniere's disease, service dogs, tinnitus, vertigo, working dogs on October 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been a little depressed the past week or so. I took a pretty bad fall a “rainy weekend” ago, and had to follow-up with my doctor to make sure I hadn’t broken a leg, arm or rib. I was covered in bruises for a couple of weeks. I mentioned to my husband, that [...]
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Posted in Challenge, Encouragement, Stress, cochlear implant, deafness, family and friends, hearing loss, tagged adapting, challenges, changes, choleric, deafness, hearing loss, melancholic, personality, phlegmatic, sanguine on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dr. Terry Portis a counseling psychologist with 20 years of experience as an educator, education and non-profit executive, speaker and writer. His interests include history, leadership, technology, disabilities, family and faith. His wife Denise has a profound hearing loss and has a cochlear implant. They have two teenage children and have lived in Maryland for [...]
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Posted in assistance dogs, cochlear implant, deafness, dog related, hearing loss, service dogs, tagged assistance dogs, balance problems, cochlear implants, deafness, hearing loss, Meniere's disease, service dogs, vertigo, working dogs on October 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Don’t you hate “lessons learned the hard way”? I must be one of those stubborn “souls” that must learn things by bearing the consequences of unheeded warnings. As a child, I’m sure my mother probably warned, “Clean your room or no watching Sesame Street and ELMO”. Knowing ME, I likely closed that door on the [...]
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Since Chloe turned 4 a week ago today, I’ve been looking at her “puppy” pictures. These are two that really made me smile. The first is when she entered the training program, and honestly! She was hardly big enough for her vest! In training, the dogs wear “therapy dog” vests for the first part of [...]
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Posted in Challenge, assistance dogs, deafness, dog related, hearing loss, service dogs, tagged Chinese Crested, deafness, Fidos For Freedom, hearing assistance dogs, hearing loss, naked dogs, personality types, service dogs, SNHL, sudden deafness, working dogs on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gingery’s Baby Pegasus (Owner: Kyersten Portis, one of the writers of Hearing Elmo)
Pegasus may be naked as a jay-bird, but he has excellent ears. (Side note: Exactly HOW naked is a “Jay Bird”? Has anyone ever really looked that up? Food for thought… )
As a matter of fact, Fidos For Freedom, Inc., the organization [...]
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Posted in Fidos For Freedom, assistance dogs, deafness, dog related, hearing assistance dogs, hearing loss, service dogs, working dogs, tagged birthday, deafness, Fidos For Freedom, hearing aids, hearing loss on October 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Chloe turned 4-years-old on Saturday.
A kiss from the birthday girl! I should know better than tell her “Happy Birthday” close enough to get kissed for it!
1. If your hearing assistance dog suddenly tenses and crouches right when you get ready to heave a big basket of laundry upstairs… look for stow-away cats before proceeding.
2. [...]
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Posted in Challenge, cochlear implant, deafness, hearing loss, tagged hearing loss, deafness, cochlear implant, hearing aid, Redskins, responsibility, pro-active, closed captioning on October 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I was reminded this week about responsibility regarding my hearing loss. A friend of mine was caught in an emotional moment, and got… well EMOTIONAL and couldn’t hear. Instead of letting the other person know that she needed a moment to “get a grip”, she gave up. I’ve done that so much myself, however, I [...]
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