Thoughts, ideas, and narratives from a deaf firefighter
Ridor apparently has a love-hate relationship with authority figures: He loves to hate them.
In a recent posting, he pointed out media coverage of another incident where a deaf person was “shot” with beanbags by police officers who thought the vehicle was related to an earlier incident where shots “may” have been fired.
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From your non-fans at Virginia Tech regarding your comment that you were “amused” at the shooting:
UPDATE: Ridor deleted the entry the day after he posted it. You can read it here.
Over at DeafDC.com, Chris Heuer put a recent blog posting about how changing to a CI would forever alter how he hears music.
I would like to add to that: I’ve found that I have to go through an adjustment period when I got new hearing aids. Nothing sounds right for a while until you [...]
Last week, I went on a rare daytime fire with my department. I say it’s rare because a) I’m usually too busy at work to be able to go and b) the paid guys in our department who work the daytime shifts (volunteers take over from 5:30pm to 7:30am) are usually gone by the [...]