T-Minus 7 Days

In 7 Days, I return back to work.  I work at a University, and my responsibility is students' academic history all the...

Deaf Buddy

My buddy "4Ears,4Eyes" is one cool girl.  She actually got up the courage to post my story when I created a "ASL T-Shirt...

Talking About Street Art

"Switched at Birth" a show that comes on Monday nights. Sixteen years ago, one mistake changed two families forever when t...

Mentoring Deaf Newbies

I was thinking today there are a lot of deaf resources and information you can find in the internet.  You can search thin...

Social Web

Spiders I can live without but spider webs I can look at all day long.  Spiders are such wonderful artists, the way ...

Mucusland

For the past few days I have been in Mucusland. No, I did not mean to say Disneyland.  The rides are really sticky and really expens...

How Did You Come Up With That Title?

Some people have asked me what “ World of Silence ” means. We live in a world of noise.  There are several cities around ...

48 Hours

My brother Jason came in from out of state to visit me and the family.  I love to be silly but especially when he comes out I get weird and...

SLOW DOWN THERE HORSE

You see me in this picture. Yeah, that's me, the dark one trying to find a way to run away.  The other horse is y...

Massage Helped A LITTLE

I didn't do much today other than visit the ENT for post-operative surgery.  I was home and all of sudden my ears start...

A Parent’s Favorite Word

This is the ASL sign for NO! Everyone knows the first word out of a baby’s is usually “Mama” or, if you have a smart child, “Dada.” ...

Full Day with Hearing Aids with Family

Sound overload - that is how I feel.  I know I just got my hearing aids (HA) and I am really happy to hear sounds and words....

Sound with ReSound

Meet "Bionic Jeff" Actually with all my gadgets in my body I feel more like this: Everyone loves C3P...

Hello. May I Take Your Order?

I was starving after seeing the audiologist today and had to make a quick stop to get something.  I drove up and went through th...

Random Thoughts

Blog of  Random Thoughts I am nervous about what my MRI results will show given how much pain I have been in.  I am glad I ...

Nearly Killed Me Today

I knew it was going to be a really bad experience going to the diagnostic place today for my MRI.  I spent $...

Ready to Run

I started my " World of Silence " blog back on July 9th.  I decided to go back today and read my past writing and boy ha...

Music Is Magical

This is my soon to be hearing aids.  I will have them on both ears, sort of like high definition surround sound, and the...

I CAN BREATHE and JEFF EAR UPDATE

I CAN BREATHE . Last night was the first night I breathed through my nose and didn't snore.  Now I have to get my wife to stop sn...

HOPE

I have not felt hopeful in the past few days.  I have been really tired from not sleeping at night because of my ear pain - recruit...