How surgery eased a 74-year-old's long struggle with hearing loss

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San Antonio grandmother, deaf since childhood, has her hearing restored through a cochlear implant at University Hospital.

Joyce Jobse can still remember the day when a teacher told her she’d never be able to learn.

“I didn’t know what it was. … I was scared,” Jobse said, laughing at her reaction to previously unknown sounds. The first single-channel cochlear implant was introduced in 1972, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Jobse left high school early to work on her family farm, married early and worked as a janitor, at a bakery and a pet store while raising two children. She coped by reading lips, relying on a hearing aid and speaking to others at full volume.

Jennifer Frank, center, an audiologist with University Health instructs Joyce Jobse on how to respond to a hearing test.Many people, like Jobse, have dealt with hearing loss for so many years, they don’t bother to seek help, Perry said. “The advice should be, if you’re not happy with the hearing that you have, you should be evaluated by somebody [an audiologist or otolaryngologist] who can offer you something else.

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

 

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