Posts Tagged as ‘hearing loss’

December 7, 2008

Today I Sent a an Email…

To Rush Limbaugh.
How many people know he lost his hearing back in 2001 due to Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease? It can cause hearing loss as a result of the hair nerves in the cochlea dying. His loss was fairly sudden. Mine wasn’t. My hearing loss spanned over 20 years…a [...]

February 25, 2008

Deafness and Hearing Loss Facts

Yesterday someone mentioned something about cochlear implants that really bothered me. This person said after having the implant for four years, B.G. “should hear and understand speech better” than he does. If he would make more of an effort to hear, he could. I tried to explain that not everyone with an implant [...]