Here, I'm wondering what people would miss the most if, one day, they were to suddenly lose their hearing?
Why these questions? I started a list of things I hope to be able to hear or experience after I get hooked up. I don't plan to show this to anyone or post it before I at least have a date set for the surgery, maybe even activation. (This is in a large part due to an effort on my part to temper my expectations).
As I've been putting this list together, I'm finding it's a bit weighted to certain types of sounds, so, I've started looking around to see what else I've been missing that I might want to add to my list.
I know that there's probably a lot of things I never even thought about. For example, It was only in February, when I was using a loaner hearing aid in preparation for the audiology evaluation, that I discovered that the scanners at the grocery store beep when an item is scanned. It took a couple of trips to the store before I figured that one out.
So again, what would you miss most if you woke up one day and discovered you had lost your hearing?
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What a great question! And it's one that I never thought about before.
While there are surely a multitude of pleasant sounds which I could list, I think I would miss the soft noises of night and early morning the most.
I would miss the reassuring rumble of my husband shifting position while he sleeps.
I would miss the sounds of my dog stretching in the night; getting up (hearing her collar tags jingling,) circling with soft stomps around her pillow-bed for 2-3 rotations before thudding down in a new (and ostensibly more comfortable) position with a contented, nasal sigh.
I would also miss the sound of birds chirping at dawn - before their faint songs are drowned out by the growing hum of weekday morning traffic.
And then of course there is the sound of rain...
I was just thinking about this about this the other day while out painting my porch walls: how interesting it is to hear the first "plop," and to look around, wondering "was that a raindrop?" and to follow the progression from that first sound to the soft and steady drumbeat of a summer morning storm.
These are some of the sounds I would miss terribly... at least now that I have heard and taken comfort in them over so many years.
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