Ik heb net deze jongen in mijn huis gevonden. Arrrrgggg... Is dit een Aziatische Horenaar en zo ja wat moet ik ermee doen? Moet ik dit ook ergens melden?
A few months ago I got diagnosed with progressive hearing / balance loss. I worked as a freelancer in photo studios and the dark environment and flashes made my balance worse, so I stopped working and I'm looking for a more 'future proof' career.
I wonder what kind of work you guys do? For those of you who got hearing issues later on, did you continue to do the same work? Or did you pivot and found sometimes more suitable? And what do you consider to be more suitable work?
I'm contacting some hard-of-hearing organisations in my area and ask them what it's like to work in these organisation, I'm not sure what kind of job I could do there, but I think working in a surrounding that is aware of hard-of-hearing issues might make things easier in the future.
I'm still just trying to figure it out, I don't really have a game plan, so I wondered if you guys had some good advice on what (not) to look for.
Vorig jaar heb ik een beukenhaag laten planten, er zijn een aantal planten die het niet overleefd hebben en het niet doen. Nu weet ik dat je ze met kale wortel niet meer kan planten, maar kan ik ze nog wel planten als er een kluitje aanzit? Of moet ik toch gewoon wachten tot het najaar?
I love cooking, a bit too much as I'm getting way too big at the moment, so it's time to lose some weight.
I love cookbooks that cover the cuisine of a certain country, I think I'm a decent cook so I can come up with a lot of dishes, what I like about these type of cookbooks is that it shows me some new flavour profiles etc. So I'm kind of looking for certain cookbooks that cover healthy cuisines and not neccisarily 'healthy recipes'. I have a Thai cookbook and love that, it has a lot of flavour and a lot of dishes are fresh and healthy. Are there cookbooks/cuisines that you can recommend that are healthy in nature and somewhat new to a person from Europe?
Thank you!
I'm sorry for bothering you with a little venting, but my hearing loss is still pretty fresh and I struggle with responses from my friends and family. I know they mean well but they keep on giving me responses that make me a little angry and I don't like that about myself and for myself. As I feel like most of you will relate to these responses, I would like to vent to you guys if that's ok.
I lost most hearing in one ear a year ago overnight with a lot of balance issues. Last month I heard it's progressive and I will lose all hearing and balance, this week I also learned that my vision will get worse too. It will take some years before I lose hearing and balance completely, but I will lose a lot and I'm sort of grieving. At 36 I feel devastated since I'm still pretty young.
When I talk about some of my issues, I often get responses such as 'ah, I have a little tinnitus too' - 'my ear is a little blocked too' - 'I stood up to quickly and got dizzy too' - 'my 90 year old mom also wears an hearing aid' - 'I should get eyedrops too' - 'we've all got some issues' - 'you're lucky hearing aids exist' - 'I guess we will play Hitster when you are gone' - 'luckily I still have good eyes and ears at my age'.
I don't talk about myself that much, so it's not like I bring up my issues all the time or something like that. But today I was at my in-laws and they asked me how I was dealing with the new diagnosis and the hearing aid that I got a few weeks back. I got all these responses in one sitting and it made me very angry, they are lovely people (!) but this just hurts. I don't like that the one time I talk about myself and an issue that is pretty big to me, they make it about themselves. It's not just them, most people tend to do this, but it was just that today felt rough has they seemed to go through every item on the bingo chart within 15 minutes.
My boyfriend is really sweet and I've told him before that I hate it when people do this, so he noticed and tried to focus it back on me. As I'm extremely avoidant of confrontations I will just smile and be polite whenever people do this, but it takes a lot of energy.
I'm sorry for the long story, but I'm looking for a nice way to make people know that I can't handle those kind of responses at the moment. I think I at least want to say that I struggle with anecdotes from (grand)ma's that are in their 80's or 90's as I don't like that I'm already confronted with the 'old age' of the issue at the audiologist. But a nice way to say 'I don't care that you think you have similar issues' isn't something I can come up with. Maybe there isn't a way to do that and I should just accept that people have the tendency to do this.
BTW my own family is sweet about it but there is an odd vibe about it. It's hereditary and my mom has it too, but for her the issues started in her fifties. She feels guilty for giving my these problems, she is really sweet about it but it's hard to talk to her about it as I don't want to make her feel even more guilty by being too sad about it in front of her. My brother and sister don't know if they have the gene, they got spooked since I've got it quiet quickly and with a bad start, so I try to play it a little cool for them too so they don't worry too much. My boyfriend is really sweet but I notice that he has struggles with it too, mostly because he's really sad for me. That kind of makes me feel guilty too. So there is a lot of frustration towards people that don't get it and guilt towards the people that do get it. I'm not sure if that makes sense.
Again, sorry for the long story
