Whether you’re an Internet user or not, you might already be familiar with blogs because they are popping up everywhere these days. A blog is like an online journal that people update every day, week or few weeks. These online journals can be public, so that anyone who finds them can read them, or private so they are only accessible to invited users. Blogs can serve different purposes, like informing others, connecting with distant family and friends, or they can serve as a place to share your thoughts and ideas on a topic or on your daily life in general.
There are some great blogs that can help you learn more about hearing loss, connect with others or join in on their hearing loss journey. Blogs are especially helpful if you’ve just been diagnosed with hearing loss and want to learn about real people’s experiences. Reading others’ posts can help you feel connected, but they shouldn’t be a substitute for medical advice. Here are four great blogs from people living with hearing loss that you might enjoy:
Life Inside These Hearing Aids
In her blog, Lucy writes in a very casual way, and her posts are a pleasure to read because they are injected with humor and honesty about living with hearing loss. She reflects on her personal life and her daily happenings and, through her posts, she hopes readers can see the little details about living with hearing loss that we seldom think about.
“I write for those of you with hearing loss because I, too, just want to know someone who gets it. And I write for those of you who don’t have hearing loss because you likely know and maybe even love someone who does … and who desperately hopes that you’ll get it.”
Lucy also posts some good advice, like this post about interviewing for a job with hearing loss.
Hearing Loss Experience
The writer of this blog is the president of the Salt Lake City chapter of HLAA. She is in her mid-40s and writes about using different assistive listening devices and her use of the Sprint CapTel captioned telephone. Her blog can be a great resource for people considering trying different hearing loss solutions or considering joining community organizations focused on hearing loss because she spends a lot of time at those events and writes about them. The blog’s author says she likes to focus on the comical aspects of her hearing loss:
“I take it best with a sense of humor. When I can repeat what I thought I heard, ‘bun crunchies’ and repeat it back to the other person who laughs, then I am OK. (It turned out to be ‘band concert,’ by the way,” she writes.
The Better Hearing Consumer
Gael Hannan writes candidly about hearing loss. She writes about anything from using an amplified telephone to her own personal experience trying to take bike rides with friends and the funny difficulties that entailed. This one is a good read for boomers as well.
