so i am sitting here..

I am sitting here without my ha on...perfectly content that I don't have to listen to my mom complain about her bf. I went to work on homework but our blackboard system is down until monday night! The time I feel like doing hw and I can't even do it! I am a bit frusterated as I need to get my BB Curve replaced due to internal problems. I hope to get the new bb PINK curve that Rogers (canada) has come out with recently!...I've been told that I may not get the pink one because I did not purchase the pink one, but I'm going to try and bargain with the customer care ppl 2morrow morning. Also I need to contact the school tomorrow regarding my LOST midterm. I am hoping I do not have to redo it as I will not be pleased. I refuse to do somethng over because of someone else's failure to deliver a folder with my midterm to my teacher/or her failure to pick it up.

Oh and my hearing has gone down a bit I think...maybe time for a trip to the audi! I hope I won't have trouble with my ha cuz i'm already turning it up and i don't know how much more dB can fit on it seeing as its only an UNA M and a for mild/mod hearing losses. The UNA SP is for anything past 60 dB.

Midterm marks!?

Sooo I finished midterms this week! YAY...downside i got a 70 on one of them and my FAMILY teacher..the bitch one...said she posted all the marks on our intranet system (blackboard) BUT mine was NOT there! :( I took my midterm somewhere else as I get extra time cuz i get easily distracted from the tinnitus, anyways my mark wasn't posted, so i sent her an email and my disability counselor and neither emailed me back ( I e-mail'd them both around 10 a.m.)! So now i am very frusterated because someone told me that sometimes if they misplace it they will either give you the mark (100%), not count it at all, OR the one that makes me most nervous...make my final exam worth 50 percent! and that is NOT happening, cuz if i fail that then there goes the whole course down the tubes!

stupid teacher..

i am so mad! I have had it up to my eyeballs with this teacher!..My family law teacher is one of the biggest bitches on the planet..the FIRST day of school we were in a comp lab and it was noisy cuz of the fans from the comps and such, neways i couldn't understand her and she kept putting her hands in front of her face to talk, so i got up when she was getting a book out and was about to ask her to speak louder and clear and ask if she could try to stop putting her hands up and down so much when she said to me
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Excuse me I am in the middle of a lesson, do you mind?!

so i said to her, sorry i am hoh/deaf and i cannot understand you...she was like OH and then walked away. THEN the 3rd or 4th class...we had an ORAL quiz, jeorpardy style..one side of the class vs the other...so naturally ppl are shouting out answers and i have NO idea wats going on...so i didn't participate...at the end of class i went up to the teacher and was like "are we going to be doing many of these types of quizes, because It's really hard to follow with everyone talking at once"...her response was
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well why don't you sit in the front then, maybe then you would hear what's going
on

Do hearing ppl not get that it doest NOT matter where sound is coming from, if EVERYONE is yelling out stuff sitting in the front isn't going to do squat! So after she said this i thought she was finished talking..so i walked away...little to my knowlege, she was still talking...my friend in the class said her face turned red and she looked all pissed off at the fact that i walked away while she was still talking, and she was like "how rude" and my friend was lke "shes hard of hearing she wears hearing aids, she wouldn't walk away on purpose"...i would never do that! well esp not to a teacher, im not that rude!ANDDD the kickerrr...we had an assignment to do and we got them back and YAY i got an 81% and its worth 10 percent of my mark..so i thought i did pretty darn well for it being the first assignment and all...we had or pre midterm meeting with her and she was like u could have done better and i made a mistake on something cuz i had never heard her say it n class (it was a mistake onher part with a fake cheque that she had made for us to hand in) so really it was her fault why i got it wrong, cuz she shud have fixed HER mitake inthe first place. So when i noticed the mistake i never questioned it cuz i figured since she had given it to us, heyyyy it must be right, right?....WRONG..but of course..that was my fault for not emailing her and asking her if it was wrong, according to her. We had this lil meeting on wednesday..now friday i walk into another class and go to check my school email and get this!
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Each term teachers are asked to complete an “early alert” form identifying
students that may be at risk of not being successful in a given term.Your
professor Sheena Laird has expressed concern about your progress in the Family
Law course.Getting help around the college is easy! Please contact me and I
would be pleased to discuss various strategies to help ensure your future
success at Algonquin College.

Nastia Toulova

Student Success Specialist

i couldnt believe it! I got an 81% on my first assignment so right now my mark is at about an 86 or better cuz that's including my participation and some little work sheets...i have missed ONE class, and usually when i "socialize" it's to clarify wat shes talking about...so me being the nice Patient (getting mad one) i sent an email back
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Dear Nastia,I really am confused as to why she would be sending you a "early
alert" as to my success in her class this term when I have received my first
assignment back already and received an 81% on it. I don't appreciate her
"concern" as I think I am doing well. I have missed one class and maybe I do
socialize sometimes when other people in the class, but I am far from being a
"problem" or a "concern" in her class.

Alicia

she proceeded to send me back this...
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Hi Alicia,If you have couple of minutes in between classes, please stop by my
office B337d and I would be able to provide to you more detailed information,
based on the teacher’s report. The teacher confirmed that you did OK on your
first assignment.Many people here at Algonquin are committed to your success.
This includes your teachers, the program coordinator, myself – as a Student
Success Specialist.Take care,Nastia

last time i had checked an 81% was more than OK and it's like she wanted to emphasize the ok, that's what had ticked me off the most, because i work very hard at school and to get this because a teacher dislikes me is very frusterating.I talked to the coordinator for my dept and she was like well i know from personal experience it's very hard to accomodate something u are not use to esp with someone who is deaf/hoh, well if it's so hard then why accept me into the program!?any thoughts on what i should do? i am soooo frusterated and mad about this whole thing..
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my ha

My Ha..

I've never taken pics before of my ha and It's weird looking at myself with it on..

First Post

Sometimes I like to express my day and just talk so I decided to just blog all my thoughts, etc! I am Hard of Hearing and I don't mind it...I am still adjusting to it a bit as I have only been (as far as we know) hoh since I was 16/17.

So, here goes my first entry!

I was born hearing but since I was a baby I have always had problems with my ears. I had constant ear infections every month or so and sometimes in both ears! They decided to put tubes in, which lasted a bit, but not long enough. I ruptured my (right) ear drum 3 times. My mom talked to the pediatrician and was worried it would damage my hearing but they reassured her that nothing would come of it and I would be fine! Ya right. All throughout school every couple of years I would have my hearing checked (at school) with the 5 min hearing test (not in a sound proof booth) and I wouldn't have any trouble except for maybe 1 or 2 beeps. They never thought anything of it since it's possible that my ears could have been "plugged" or I was "stuffed up". I never had any real problems in school accept on report cards I always seemed to have "trouble" listening to the teacher and I talked too much lol. So, come and goes middle school and high school and suddenly my rents get divorced and I'm thrown back to canada (where I'm from-which isn't too bad). I turned 16 which was pretty monumental...i had a big party! :)

And then...it started!

I first started to notice a ringing in my ears. I would have a lot of trouble sleeping and it was quite annoying...and then it got louder! I went to one audi who said oh don't worry just deal with it...bye bye to him. Then I went to the children's hospital of eastern ontario (CHEO) and they were pretty nice, but they too said you should be fine, you have a slight hearing loss but nothing that needs to be worried about. Then my tinnitus got worse and i was referred to a tinnitus specialist at another hospital and she labeled my tinnitus as severe and suggested tinnitus maskers that stayed in my ears all day...umm hearing loss plus more noise in my ears..how am i supposed to hear? "OH YA!" she said. She was like well that could be a problem now could it. So I ditched her as well since she didn't tell me anything that I did not know already. I finally switched to another audi which usually deals with older ppl but the centre is really good and they have ALOT of experience dealing with the deaf/hoh. So, he finally said you seen to have a progressive loss but your left ear is not too bad and is not a cause of concern, but on the other hand your right ear has a loss b/w 40-50 dB across the board which would definitely be helped with amplification. So FINALLY someone who was thinking with their brain! So we looked and we picked the (back then) Phonak Una. Which I love (i will post pics) I have it in black and it seems to work fine, some days I do get frusterated and i just yank it out...but most it's great! I also have a smartlink SX fm system for school which is pretty handy in class as it's a big difference from high school to university. I have only gone two or three times for volume adjustments and lil tweaks of my ha but overall the ha has been great.
I think that is all for now! I will try to post more tomorrow! orr maybe later :)