Hello everyone, welcome to my channel.
My name is Emily, I created Definite Hearing as a way to increase awareness for the deaf
and hard of hearing.
I hope you stick around to the end of this video, because if you (do), I'm going to tell you why I was
so exhausted in the last video about hearing fatigue, so stick around to the end of the video for that answer.
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Today I'm going to talk about cookie bite hearing losses.
What is a cookie bite hearing loss? Imagine and amazing scrumptious perfectly baked cookie
that has a bite out of it.
Now this bite is going to look like a U shape, and this U shape is manifest on the audiogram
of a person who has a cookie bite hearing loss, this U shape occurs between 500 to 2000
hertz.
This is the frequency tone range of sounds for music and speech, so people with a cookie
bite hearing loss, have difficulty understanding speech. Cookie bite hearing losses are a type
of sensorineural hearing loss.
This means that this type of hearing loss is less common than age or noise-induced hearing
losses. A sensorineural hearing loss is a hearing loss, in which there is damage to
the inner ear or auditory pathway to the brain.
I have a bilateral, which means two-sided, genetic sensorineural hearing loss.
Sensorineural hearing losses are most likely due to genetic causes, they can be manifest
at birth or progressive over time, genetic sensorineural hearing losses make up for the
most of the cookie bite hearing loss cases. In a rare case, and acoustic neuroma, a benign
tumor, can also cause a cookie bite hearing loss.
So because of this you shape on the audiogram where speech takes place, it's really difficult
for people to understand speech, if they have a cookie bite hearing loss.
So, what are the treatments for this. For mild cookie bite hearing losses, treatments
can be as simple as making sure that people are facing you when they talk, turning up
the volume if someone's listening to a TV or music program, but in my case, the best
treatment for my sensorineural cookie bite hearing loss is hearing devices or hearing aids.
I love my hearing aids.
Hearing aids are incredible little mechanical devices that can listen to sound filter through
all the tones that come through and adjust the volume of the sounds where I am deficient.
Check out my audiogram, you'll notice that my right ear has a more significant U shaped
cookiebot hearing loss than my left ear, and also my hearing loss is rated as moderate
to severe, that is another reason I'm very grateful for hearing aids because I already
can't hear very much, and in addition to having the cookie bite hearing loss, speech becomes
even more difficult to hear for me.
So hearing aids, definitely increase my ability to hear and understand what is going on, they
don't solve all of the problems but they helped me hear so much, and boy do I love them.
So how would you know if you have a cookie by hearing loss, the best way to find out
would be to visit your audiologist, they would conduct a hearing test or an audiogram, and
they would chart your hearing, as you saw on my audiogram, it wouldn't look the same,
because all ears and hearing levels are different, but if you have that U shaped in the 500 to
the 2000 range, then you have a cookie bite hearing loss. Do you have a cookie bite hearing
loss?
If so, I would love to hear in the comments below.
If not, what type of hearing loss, do you have, I would love to hear in the comments
below.
Thank you so much for sticking around to the end of this video if you haven't already please
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I'm going to share why I was so exhausted in my hearing fatigue video.
The reason I was exhausted is because so much has been going on lately, when I work an eight
to five job, I actually love my job because it's results only work environment which means
if I get the work done, great.
If not, then I got to get it done.
I can't get off early and I've got to make sure I put in the hours which is like any
other job, but we've just had a lot of things lately that I've had to work on, and it's
felt one, one, and two, Joel and I have been looking for a home, and the housing market
right now is absolutely, just crazy like houses are going for so much more than they're
worth, and it's been really hard to find a home.
And so I just got kind of, like, just really wanting to find a home.
We had someone contact us about a property that was not on the market, and we were so
excited.
It was perfect it fit everything we wanted from like the little things of like dishwasher
washer dryer, like parking and had a garage, just everything was perfect and the HVAC
had been replaced recently, the electrical, the property was in excellent condition, and
so we got it under contract, and we put in the earnest money and we were so excited,
and then we learned that there was a third person on title that we did not know about
and that person did not want to sell the property, and so the seller had to withdraw the contract,
and we didn't get that house, and so I was so sad.
So we went from being so excited because we were going to get the house of our dreams
to not having it and over that course I lost sleep because I was so excited and then I
lost sleep because I was worried that we wouldn't get it.
And then we got it, and then it disappeared.
And so it was an extremely emotional week so between that and work and a bunch of other
things and projects that I've been working on.
I was so tired. and it's been hard to hear and focus and understand and so I was definitely
experiencing hearing fatigue, so I took a nap, I rarely take naps.
And I'm taking time to just relax and enjoy what we do have, because I just am really
feeling so grateful that you know what like we are good where we're at right now and something
better will come along, I just know it well.
There you have it.
Now you know why I was so exhausted in my last video, I hope you are all doing well
I hope that things are going well for you if there's anything or any highlights for
Lowe's that you want to share, I would love to hear in the comments below so that either
I can cry with you, or celebrate with you.
That's it for today though, I look forward to making my next video.
Have a great day.
Bye.