It's Your Choice

It's Your Choice -- What Do You Choose to Do??!!

by Tewwy Lovestone

Hearing loss or your hearing impairment isn't something you should be ashamed of. Your lack of hearing is the same as someone who has lost their eyesight. When your vision decreases, your optometrist tells you that you are going to need glasses with a certain amount of prescription in them that will help you to see and perform better in your daily life. Just like glasses, your hearing aids are hearing tools that will help you to perform better and up to standard in your environment. If you have been prescribed hearing aids, then you should wear them. Wearing them will benefit you tremendously, from your school work to even saving your life.

For example, what if you have hearing loss in your left ear and were crossing a one-way street with a car coming up towards you on the left side? When that driver beeps their horn, you're automatically going to turn your head to the right. Why is that? The level of hearing in your right ear is greater than the hearing of your left, therefore the sound that you hear will be louder in that ear, causing what might lead you to the end of your life!

School-wise, your hearing aid is basically a must, especially if your hearing loss is more than moderate! Wearing your hearing aids will allow you to function on the same or even better level than your school mates around you. You will be able to perform better and get better grades. As for myself, my hearing aids have helped me to bring up my academic skills, putting me on a better level of understanding. They have also helped my grades to increase, especially in math and science.

It's your choice...what will you choose to do?!! I choose my hearing aids!!

Tewey is a high school student in Brooklyn.

TUBES IN MY EARS
- by D.
I @m 11 ye@rs old and I'm in the 4th gr@de. I like to dr@w.
I don't remember when I got tubes put in my ears, but during Christmas vacation something funny happened. I was laying in my mother's bed and I felt a big thing in my ear. I had told my mother, "Look!" I felt something in there, and I didn't know what it was. My mother said, "It's a tube." She said that the tube was to drain the water out. She told me that when I was little I used to get a lot of ear infections. When you get a ear infection there is a lot of water in your ear.

I noticed that when I put my left ear on my pillow I didn't hear so well. My Mom told them at school that I had tubes in my ears.

Before when I had a tube in my ear and I put my right ear down on the pillow, I could not hear too much out of my left ear. Now I don't have the tube in my ear and I can hear better than before.
My advice for someone who doesn't hear the same in both their ears is to ask the teacher to repeat something if you don't hear it. Don't listen to loud music because it will affect your hearing. Write to me if u want to ask me some questions about hearing.

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