# @mama.hu.hears on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C5BaRRItaVC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21505414-mamahuhears-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-03-27T15:03:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dr. Michelle Hu•Hard of Hearing•Audiologist (@mama.hu.hears) — https://gondola.cc/mama.hu.hears

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On Friday I shared the Invisible Load of Hearing Loss but I want to share why I am thankful for my deaf/hard of hearing journey 💕

➡️When I was 3, I was identified with mild hearing levels secondary to Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome+Pendred Syndrome and fit with bilateral hearing aids
➡️My mom was told that I would not go beyond a third grade reading level
➡️As a result of EVAS, my hearing levels worsened each time I hit my head. By age 10 years old I had profound sensorineural hearing loss bilaterally
➡️During my senior year of college I had another sudden drop in hearing.
➡️I was sitting in the lobby waiting to have my hearing evaluated when my mom suggested that I’d make a good audiologist since I had firsthand experience with hearing loss and hearing aids. This suggestion floored me.

🎉YES. I wanted to help others in a healthcare setting but I just didn’t have a pull to a specific field.

➡️That year my hearing came back with the help of intratympanic steroid injections but I was already filling out applications with the goal to attend the Northeast Ohio Audiology Consortium (NOAC).

It was during our 3rd year that we started to learn about cochlear implants. One night I was chatting about this with my parents and they told me that I had been a CI candidate since I was young, but they were wary of the technology at the time and it appeared to them that I had adapted and learned how to thrive academically.

➡️I decided to undergo pre-CI evaluations again and was implanted that year!

🍂For the first time in a long time I could hear my feet shuffle on the carpet, and the turn signal of my car (I'm definitely one of those who previously had left this on!)

🎉I no longer avoided birthday parties, movie theaters or other social gatherings.

My journey led me here, to support children and their families as they navigate life with a disability and for that, I could not be more thankful. 

📸: theleoloves

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