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Strangely enough, I have come to feel that losing my hearing was one of the greatest things that ever happened if you ask me, because it resulted in the publication of my first novel. Nonetheless it took a little while for me personally to just accept that I was dropping my hearing and needed help. I think that irrespective of how tough things get, you may make them better. I've my parents to thank for that. They never allowed me to believe that I really could not achieve something because of my hearing loss. Certainly one of my mother's favorite sayings when I expressed doubt that I could do something was, &quot;Yes, you can.&quot; I was born with a mild hearing loss but started initially to lose more of my hearing when I was a senior in college. While sitting within my college dormitory room reading, I discovered my partner get up from her sleep, head to the phone inside our room, pick it up and start talking one day. 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Unbeknown if you ask me at the time, that was only the start of my unpredictable manner, as my hearing grew steadily worse. But I was still vain and young enough to not want to purchase a hearing aid. I struggled through school by sitting up front in the class room, straining to learn lips and asking individuals to speak up, often again and again. By the full time I entered graduate school, I could no longer wait. I knew that I'd to get a hearing aid. At that time, also sitting in front of the classroom wasn't helping much. I was still vain enough while I let my hair grow out a before taking the plunge to wait a month or two but I ultimately did buy a hearing aid. It was a large, clunky thing, but I knew that I would need to be able to hear if I ever desired to graduate. Quickly, my hair length did not matter much, while the hearing aids got smaller and smaller. 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I did maybe not know it then, but that first hearing aid actually opened me to go on to larger and better things. I'd long dreamed of writing a novel, but like the others kept putting it down. As I started to lose more and more of my reading, it had been a job simply to continue at the job, aside from doing much else. Then after the hearing aid was got by me, I no longer had to worry about a lot of the things I did before, and I begun to believe that writing a story would be the ideal hobby for me personally. Anybody can produce whether or not they can hear. Be taught more on our favorite related website by clicking  [http://www.yellowpages.com/walnut-creek-ca/mip/contra-costa-hearing-aid-center-983903 company website] . I was also determined to show that losing my hearing would not hold me straight back. My first novel was published in 1994 and my fifth in the summer of 2005. Writing proved to be much more than an interest, as I have been writing full-time for more than ten years. 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