[nfb-db] Types of hearing loss?

[Trish Hubschman]

My mother is a premie, born 1935.  They don't know how  early she was.  My  grandmother didn't look pregnant when she went into labor.  Mom was only 2.5 lbs.   She's always had trouble  breathing, gets winded after walking a short distance.  She's gotten very short but that could be age.  And she wears 2 hearing aids.  Her loss came on very  quickly.

Trish

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Hi, I was also born prematurely. I have a bone disease called Osteogenesis Imperfecta which causes bones to be britlou I have a mild case of it so I do not take any medication or treatment forit. but hearing rss goes along with it. My Mn has told me that I was fitting with hearing aids when I was a baby people I was even walking. A lot of my family have hearing loss but they lost it laarer in life. As of right now my Moms hearing is worse than mine and she's just lost it in the past cousle of years. My aunt who also has the bone disease has also lost most of her hearing in the past few years. I can still hear well enough to communicte without hearing aids as my hearing is mild in my left ear and moderate in my right. But with my family history it could easily get worse but for now it's been stable.   

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> On Mar 21, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Trish Hubschman <palhub at optonline.net> wrote:
> 
> Both are possible.  My mother feels that all the ear infections I had 
> as a child contributed to my hearing loss, though it didn't show up 
> till I was 10.
> A  premature birth can do it also.  That's why Stevie Wonder is blind. 
> He was borhn early and the retina  didn't  develop.  If it can happen 
> with vision, I'm sure the same can hold true for hearing.
> 
> I've been doing genetic testing, just  blood work so far.  The second 
> report has finally come in after 4 months.  The genetic place is 
> sending  it to my primary doctor.  I asked my husband  to call him 
> today if he has the chance.
> 
> 
> Trish
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-db [mailto:nfb-db-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gerardo 
> Corripio
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 10:09 AM
> To: 'NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List'
> Subject: [nfb-db] Types of hearing loss?
> 
>  HI guys
> I've been wondering year after year my case for instance: I was born 
> premature 28 weeks, thus as far as my family remembers, and Ikind of 
> remember also, I was able to hear OK, but between the ages of 5-8 I 
> kind of lost hearing, thus when I was eight, I was fitted with my 
> first hearing aids. I didn't realize how much hearing loss (70%) until 
> the first day I took off my hearing aids to give my ears a rest, when 
> all of a sudden I was in a world of silence! Wow! For a moment I was 
> scared maybe I'd lost my hearing only during the few hours I was with 
> the hearing aids, but maybe all along it has been so, and I never realized?
> My Vi teacher (I was in the US some time) worried I might become deaf, 
> thus taught me Braille at an accelerated pace thus still practice 
> especially for my Psychology online program in which I Braille the 
> outline of the topic I'm discussing and read it off.
> So my question is, might it be true what my Mom says that my hearing 
> loss was due to an ear infection maltreated, or those who are born 
> premature, have a tendency to loos hearing between the ages of 5-8 like myself?
> 
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