Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt
By: Dr. Dawn MacMillan, Audiologist "Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt" Mark Twain "I watch PBS and most of the people have British accents..." "My wife mumbles when she talks to me..." "The checkers at <insert grocery store here> don’t speak clearly." "Our new pastor--his voice trails off..." What do the above statements have in common? They’re all excuses we’ve heard when people try to explain to us that they don’t have hearing loss, they hear what they want to hear, and their difficulty understanding has everything to do with everyone else and not them. Sound familiar? There’s no denying (see what we did there?) that accents, background noise, and distance can make conversations hard to hear. But adding hearing loss on top of factors we have little control over makes it that much more difficult to understand . The 5 stages of grief and loss are: 1. Denial and isolation; 2. Anger; 3. Bargaining 4. Depression; 5. Acceptanc