There are times that my husband can be sitting on the couch and will tell me that Alex is crying and I just look at him because I don’t hear him crying!

Thanks for sharing your story! That must be quite an ordeal with you and your daughter having reverse hearing losses.

Thanks for visiting!

Cindy

I never realized that my freakish sense of smell could be the compensation for my HOH! I love that my daughter won’t be able to get away with much of anything as she navigates her way thru the teen years. I was a juvenile delinquent (we do tend to turn out OK, for all you other moms out there), so I’ve seen it, done it, heard it (while I could), and probably smoked it. Guess what? I know what THAT smells like, too! HA!

My frustration lies in the fact that my daughter is also HOH (aids bilaterally, low tones heard better than high tones) and still gets frustrated trying to accomodate MY HOH (low tone-deaf and can hear high-frequency tones). Yes, that means that we are HOH at opposite ends of the frequency spectrum! EEK! (I can hear EEK better than a heavy *sigh*)

I love knowing that I am not alone in my tinnitis (sp?) nightmare, and that my challenges with mumbling, mustaches, and deep voices are not unique. Thanks for your sense of humor!

My daugher was flabbergasted!
“Mom! She left HOURS AGO! How did you know she was here?!?”

“I could smell her,” I said. They still talk about this sometimes.