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Coffee Cup Thoughts – 4

I’ve just processed 3 groups of 8 trainees through an introduction in my e-learning center. Despite having my hearing aids at nearly max volume, I guess my speech therapist was right; I can’t figure out what’s being said without lip reading, unlike a few months ago. Waiting for word on my cochlear implant surgery is [...]

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Bilingualism

  Being bilingual can be a wonderful thing, but the mental effort involved in rapidly interpreting back and forth for almost 6 hours a day can be exhausting. For the past 10 days I got back to work and was a bit nervous about the new batch of trainees we would be working with. I [...]

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Pausing Time

After a glitch in payment for the UK-based company from where I’m buying my Naida IX hearing aids. They informed me that they have received payment on Aug. 25th. And today I got an email there’s been a holdup in shipment & I will be informed tomorrow on their actual shipping date. Patience, Rashed. Yesterday, [...]

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