[PM_Mama00]

Originally posted by cutiepatootie
I don't tell many people this because i am very self concious about it , but i lost my hearing for one complete summer growing up because i have been palgued by severe ear infections my entire life. I have run the gamut of tubes etc... and from that summer i have a loss of hearing. Though i can hear and understand completely and do read lips i do have some loss. i can even sign because i was fasnicated by this and thought maybe if this got any worse i better learn now, So when ppl say i am talking to loud and i cannot even detect it i get very quiet because from that stems my self conciousness.

Sad part is my 4 yr old son is being plagued by severe ear infections like i had.

flip side was growing up when my mom was calling me or yelling at me , which ever came first...ha, i would say sorry i cant hear ya ...or was it selective hearing.

Sometimes I think I"m losing my hearing in my right ear. I have to put the volume on my phone way high on that ear, but then I switch to my left and it's so freakin high.

A friend of mine in high school was partially deaf cuz her next door neighbor used to scream in her ear when she was little. She had to learn to read people's lips.

And my niece has had surgery on her ear so many times with the tubes. She's only 2 1/2 but her hearing seems to be fine.