My Silenced Marathon… My Life…

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PLEASE VOTE FOR MY PHOTO ENTRY! (NF)

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2009

PLEASE VOTE FOR MY PHOTO ENTRY! DONT WORRY ABOUT THE PREVIOUS ONE, BECAUSE THIS ONE IS DOING BETTER! IT IS ALREADY RANKED NUMBER 19, AFTER 2 DAYS. WITH YOUR HELP AND YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS VOTING FOR MY PHOTO ENTRY, IT COULD WIN! IT IS EASY! JUST PRESS THE GREEN BUTTON! THANK YOU [...]

Blogging…. Numerous times, I have clearly gotten this message from my family… “hearing impairment, of any sort, is not accepted in this house.” Well, why do I feel this way? Read on….
I’m the only one in family with hearing loss. late deafened, but last year I got ABI to help with lipreading [...]

I had not talked on the telephone for 3 years!

Posted by: Anne on: November 24, 2008

… I LOVED TALKING ON THE PHONE!!! … I became deaf. I knew I’d probably never talk on telephone again. My audiologist had told me that MOST of the ABI-recipients can’t understand much speech without lipreading. Well, I am the kind of girl that does what MOST people (that I know) think would be impossible …

Silenced Marathon – “Best Draft”

Posted by: Anne on: April 16, 2008

Note: If you saw a lot of errors in this earlier… I fixed it! Yay! I’m going to delete the previous one, that is on here.

Silenced

Marathon

It Hit Me like a Speeding Bullet; It Changed My Life

Anne

April 16, 2008
Art of Expression
Memoir

(“My Most Perfect Draft”- HW11)

Note: Nothing in this [...]

MEMIOR DRAFT 1 For Conference

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

MEMIOR DRAFT 1 For Conference

On 4/9/2008 4:08:42 PM
Note: It is really long.
Very DRAFT! I need to CUT, CUT, ADD…

Silenced Marathon

It Hit Me like a Speeding Bullet; It Changed My Life

By: Anne

March 9, 2008

Art of Expression

Memoir Draft

Silenced Marathon

Intro
For eighteen years in the hearing world in which I lived I thought [...]

Off / On / Off

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2008

Off / On / Off

On 4/6/2008 12:49:26 AM
- Off / On / Off -
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My world is silent.
My world is full of sounds.
My world silent.

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I wake up and take a glance at the time.
My alarm vibrates; it makes no sound.
It is late, I feel my stomach rumble.
The bear in my stomach [...]