Today we’re wondering if you’ll share something a little personal with us. Do you have vision or hearing impairments? Do you have both? Neither?
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Getting old is not for cowards.
Amen!
Yet the alternative is not desirable!
Yup, or for sissies.
Whom ever coined the phrase the “Golden Years” couldn’t tell the difference between gold and rust. Maybe it came from the fact that as we age everything becomes more expensive, therefore the gold. Lol
Although I have both hearing impairment in one ear and visual impairment, both are corrected to almost normal through 1 hearing aid and a pair of glasses. The poll didn’t ask about the degree of impairment.
I recently had my hearing checked and my wife went along. The audiologist advised me the hearing in my right ear was not that great but my left ear was okay. I replied, “That’s okay, I always drive.”
Most people, older or not, do not even realize they have a problem. They come on gradually and we just get used to it. I started to have problems with night vision and didn’t realize it until it got to a point that bright lights were really bothersome after dark.
My eye doctor kept telling me I was getting cataracts, but I refused to admit I was getting old.
Both eyes done when I turned 68 and what a difference.
Now if I could just get the rest of my body back to being 40.
Vision I did and now don’t. Had cateracts removed and toric lens put in only use cheaters for reading. Great move.
Yep! And big improvement in seeing colors too.
As with most, I do wear glasses when I need to read small print or view from a distance; and, my family notices a decrease in my ability to hear them (although a hearing test determined a loss not significant enough to get hearing aids). So, yes, to both, both not significantly!
I don’t count fully correctable vision as an impairment. I don’t require hearing aids (yes I’ve been tested). My spouse on the other hand is in treatment to slow a vision impairment, probably not fully correct it, and she is wearing hearing aids.
Not me personally but my DW has a hearing disability. And since we are as one I answered yes. At times it can be very irritating! Any extraneous noise or a higher wind can take the sound away from her. I always attend her medical appointment to ensure she hears and understands the doctors questions and/or instructions. A major factor is lack of ability to understand phone conversations so I always listen in. Yes, she wears hearing aids, top of the line ones.
Just a reminder to vets. The VA provides free top of the line hearing aids for most vets. Getting signed up can be a bit of a hassle (it took me three long telephone calls to get them to update my 20 year out of date address), but worth it. Batteries are also supplied free of charge.
Depends on who you ask! If you ask me if my hearing is impaired I will say no, if you ask my wife she will say yes. She always says I didn’t hear a word she said!
I don’t have a hearing problem I have a listening problem. There is a big difference in not hearing what is said and not listening to what is said. If I am listening I hear but I don’t always listen.
Yep, that is a common thing. We can’t help it if someone doesn’t have anything interesting to say, so don’t listen. However being deaf in one ear and not listening in the other, Blind in one eye and not looking with the other makes life interesting.
I only marked hearing. Two hearing aids, and glasses for reading close up.
I just need reading glasses, but my husband has hearing aids and prescription glasses.
DW uses hearing aids, I tested and don’t require hearing aids, although wife says my test must have been faulty. We both wear eye glasses.
Certainly the vision impairment, having worn glasses since 1965 and contact lenses since 1973. Dear wife adds that I am hearing impaired, but I have not been so diagnosed.
I guess I should change it to vision, but I have been wearing the same prescription since the early 60’s and can almost legally drive without my glasses and I prefer to read without them.
The effects of combat, Vietnam Mekong Delta, with over 200 missions took its toll and I lost 75% of my hearing. We had no ear protection and I doubt it would have even helped much. It is so frustrating for people get upset when you don’t have hear, even hearing aids have limitations. It is the one disability that many parties suffer from.
Like most people over 50, I have trouble reading without glasses. My long distance vision is also mildly impaired.
My boyfriend, with whom I travel, has fairly significant hearing loss due to drumming in a band for many years.
As for vision, I need glasses to read but my distance vision is pretty good.
As for hearing, I often have to say “I’m not deaf, I’m just ignoring you”
Tinnitus from flying jets, and a damaged right retina from the removal of an ERM.
If wearing glasses is considered by you to be a visual impairment then the answer is yes.
Hearing loss due to working in the engine room for 3 years while in Navy. Eyesight I wear glasses for distance, reading is fine.
Technically anyone who wears glasses are vision impaired so my 5 year old grandson would qualify as vision impaired. I don’t count that as an impairment personally. I also wear sunglasses a lot because I have light sensitively and get headaches. I am hearing impaired and need hearing aids as many people my age do. But none of this slows me down. Many things in life try to impair you but we adapt and keep moving.
Not “blind” anymore since having cataract surgery. Before I couldn’t get out of bed without reaching for my glasses. Now I need readers and unfortunately, I can’t use the $1.25 ones any more. One eye is a 2.5 and the other a 3.25
I was born hearing impaired along with my wife too. She has cochlear implanted done about 15 yr ago