1. Oddly enough, I've come to think that losing my
hearing was one of the best things to ever
happened to me, as it led to the publication of my
first novel.
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2. I believe that no matter how tough things get, you can make them
better I have my parents to thank for that They never allowed me to
think that I couldn't accomplish something because of my hearing
loss One of my mother's favorite sayings when I expressed doubt
that I could do something was, "Yes, you can " I was born with a mild
hearing loss but began to lose more of my hearing when I was a
senior in college One day while sitting in my college dormitory room
reading, I noticed my roommate get up from her bed, go to the
princess telephone in our room, pick it up and start talking

3. None of that would have seemed strange, except for one thing: I
never heard the telephone ring! I wondered why I couldn't hear a
phone that I could hear just the day before But I was too
baffled--and embarrassed--to say anything to my roommate or
anyone else Late-deafened people can always remember the
moment when they first stopped being able to hear the important
things in life like telephones and doorbells ringing, people talking in
the next room, or the television It's sort of like remembering where

4. you were when you learned that President Kennedy had been shot
or when you learned about the terror attack at the World Trade
Center Unbeknown to me at the time, that was only the beginning of
my downward spiral, as my hearing grew progressively worse But I
was young and still vain enough not to want to buy a hearing aid I
struggled through college by sitting up front in the classroom,
straining to read lips and asking people to speak up, sometimes
again and again

5. By the time I entered graduate school, I could no longer put off
getting a hearing aid By that time, even sitting in front of the
classroom wasn't helping much I was still vain enough to wait a few
months while I let my hair grow out a bit before taking the plunge but
I eventually bought my first hearing aid It was a big, clunky thing, but
I knew that would have to be able to hear if I ever wanted to
graduate Soon, my hair length didn't matter much, as the hearing
aids got smaller and smaller

6. They also got better and better at picking up sound The early aids
did little more than make sounds louder evenly across the board
That doesn't work for those of us digital hearing aids reviews with
nerve deafness, as we may have more hearing loss in the higher
frequencies than in the lower frequencies The newer digital and
programmable hearing aids go a long way toward improving on that
They can be set to match different types of hearing loss, so you can,
say, increase a particular higher frequency more than the lower ones

7. Once I got my hearing aid and was able to hear again, I could focus
on other things that were important to me--like my education, my
career and writing that first novel! I had long dreamed of writing a
novel, but like others kept putting it off As I began to lose more and
more of my hearing, I thought that writing a novel would be the
perfect hobby for me, as anyone can write regardless of whether
they can hear I was also determined to prove that my deafness
would not hold me back My first novel was published in 1994 and
my fifth in the summer of 2005 Writing turned out to be much more
than a hobby, and I've been writing full-time for more than 10 years

8. I'm now hard at work on my first nonfiction work, a photo-essay
book to be published by Bulfinch, a division of Time Warner Books,
in 2007 I honestly believe that I would never have sat down at the
computer and banged out that first novel if I hadn't lost so much of
my hearing Instead, I'd probably still be an editor somewhere and
still dreaming about someday becoming a novelist That's why I
sometimes think that losing my hearing was one of the best things
that ever happened to me

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