My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.
When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?
Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.
My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet. I think he felt, 'I don't want to say something wrong.' That's my sense of it.
In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.
Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.
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