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  • Category: Deafness
  • Founded: Sep 11, 2001
  • Language: English
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5965 legworks03 Send Email Oct 1, 2005
11:17 am
Val, Did it ask if you wear hearing aids or consider yourself to have a disability? Just wondered as most products in the catalogue are required by people who...
5966 michellewdby@...
hunnybaby123... Send Email
Oct 1, 2005
12:50 pm
Hello can i ask you all how do you prove you have a hearing disability if you dont recieve DLA? michelle [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
5967 Anne Morgan
fudg1em Send Email
Oct 1, 2005
1:04 pm
Do you wear hearing aids? have you had a hearing test which showed abnormal hearing? I would think that's all you need ... From: michellewdby@... To:...
5968 michellewdby@...
hunnybaby123... Send Email
Oct 1, 2005
2:31 pm
hiya yes i do have hearing aids for both ears, i have been diagnosed as having otosclerosis (stapes and cochlea) but i have been asked in the past to prove my...
5969 Anne Morgan
fudg1em Send Email
Oct 1, 2005
3:35 pm
Sorry Michelle, I don't understand how you can have been properly diagnosed with hearing loss and other problems, and still have your disability queried. Who...
5970 michellewdby@...
hunnybaby123... Send Email
Oct 1, 2005
4:23 pm
Sorry Michelle, I don't understand how you can have been properly diagnosed with hearing loss and other problems ive had many audio tests done/also a scan to...
5971 Anne Morgan
fudg1em Send Email
Oct 1, 2005
5:10 pm
That is indeed unfair Michelle. ... From: michellewdby@... To: hardofhearinguk@... Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 5:23 PM Subject: Re:...
5972 Val Cooke
crazycookie1969 Send Email
Oct 1, 2005
5:48 pm
The phone I was looking at was on the deaf equipment web sight they just asked you to tick the box. This phone by the way ids for work they will pay me back...
5973 Mike
g0hci Send Email
Oct 1, 2005
7:26 pm
any use? http://www.benefitsnow.co.uk/RNID/questionnaires.asp Is there a pressure group I should join to get positive changes made?...
5974 michellewdby@...
hunnybaby123... Send Email
Oct 1, 2005
11:51 pm
In a message dated 01/10/2005 20:27:44 GMT Daylight Time, g0hci@... writes: http://www.benefitsnow.co.uk/RNID/questionnaires.asp thankyou i will have...
5975 valerie smith
valeriesmith... Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
9:41 am
I have heard there is going to be a three year waiting list for hearing aids on the N H S, has anyone else heard about this? Would like to receive your...
5976 michellewdby@...
hunnybaby123... Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
10:32 am
hello my digital NHS hearing aids where ordered in december 04 and i recieved them april 05. Im not sure if things have changed since then, i suppose it...
5977 elaine
cello_ace Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
12:37 pm
HI Val , I saw that on the new and in the paper .It said that the wait was up to 3 years in some areas .It's not that long round our way thank god ! Elaine xx ...
5978 Saffron
hohsaffron Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
2:28 pm
I think waiting times are slowly going down though, not up. Again, there might be some execptions to the rule and it depends on the area, but generally...
5979 Saffron
hohsaffron Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
4:04 pm
One of our members emailed me this and asked if I could post it here: Deafened actor performs own show at Battersea Arts Centre Actor Tim Barlow will be...
5980 Saffron
hohsaffron Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
4:29 pm
I said "this Saturday", but it's actually on Sat 15th October! Sorry!...
5981 Mike
g0hci Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
4:33 pm
If you were issued with an NHS aid - YOU ARE ALREADY on their database and one would think that would be sufficient to be short-listed for an upgrade (of...
5982 Saffron
hohsaffron Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
6:12 pm
I've often wondered why software could not be given to patients who own computers and are able to download it, in order to allow them to do their own...
5983 elaine
cello_ace Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
6:31 pm
I got the impression it was just certain areas where there is a shortage of trained audiologists that have the huge delays and in other areas things are...
5984 Ian Game
ian_game Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
6:43 pm
Yep! At Stoke Mandeville (Aylesbury) it is a long long wait. ... -- www.tekbuild.co.uk...
5985 mazza_1961 Send Email Oct 3, 2005
9:01 pm
Whenever I go to the audiology department (which is much fewer times than I use to thank gawd) I seem to be the only patient there and there are about half a...
5986 Saffron
hohsaffron Send Email
Oct 3, 2005
9:47 pm
It does seem to vary a lot from hospital to hospital. In Cambridge, there are a few audiologists, but whenever I go, they're always rushed off their feet and...
5987 elaine
cello_ace Send Email
Oct 4, 2005
4:37 pm
Hi all , Things seem to be hotting up here in the NW as far as research into Menieres Disease is concerned (and about time too I hear you all say :lol: !). ...
5988 Val Cooke
crazycookie1969 Send Email
Oct 4, 2005
4:50 pm
Hi all Funny enough I went for my annual appointment last Tuesday and as Mazza said I was the only one there. They told me this was because a lot of people...
5989 Saffron
hohsaffron Send Email
Oct 4, 2005
5:00 pm
That sounds very interesting. Nice to see that there is enough interest in research into this area (I find that ear research is often shunned by doctors and...
5990 Saffron
hohsaffron Send Email
Oct 4, 2005
5:01 pm
Yes, that's a problem when appointments are sent so far in advance. You'd think that it's cheaper for the NHS to send a reminder letter than to have to re-book...
5991 Ian Game
ian_game Send Email
Oct 4, 2005
5:06 pm
... Which was when?...
5992 elaine
cello_ace Send Email
Oct 4, 2005
9:55 pm
Thanks Saff .I agree .Will keep you posted , Elaine xx ... interest ... shunned ... <cello_ace@h...> ... into ... frequency...
5993 mazza_1961 Send Email Oct 5, 2005
9:10 am
Good luck with your research Elaine. Mazza ... all ... an...
5994 mazza_1961 Send Email Oct 5, 2005
9:15 am
Wow audiology appointments sent a year in advance. That's ridiculous. How do they know what their staffing situation is going to be like besides anything...
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