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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Olathe, Kansas. Nancy, welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m talking to you. I\u2019ve been trying to call you for three years. It\u2019s just an honor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. You bet. Here you are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Congratulations on getting your cochlear implant.<\/a> That\u2019s wonderful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was listening to you and I wanted to call because I have a daughter who just turned 14, and we found out when she was in kindergarten that she had hearing loss, just mild, and we couldn\u2019t believe it because she started talking when she was like eight or nine months old. And she has just not wanted to wear her hearing aids for the last, you know, couple, three or four years where we started telling her when she was in fifth grade, “You have to wear them at least to school.” And when we would go to the audiologist she would say, “Yes, you need to wear them because if you don\u2019t you might possibly weaken that nerve damage, whatever, more, and then you may not be eligible for a surgery that could possibly fix this in the future.” So I don\u2019t know what to do, Rush, to get her to want to wear her hearing aids. You know, she\u2019s embarrassed.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. You\u2019re probably dealing with teenage vanity, right? She\u2019s afraid of how she\u2019s going to look.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And she\u2019s afraid people are gonna make fun of her and she\u2019s afraid people are gonna think that she is disabled or an invalid. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, can you hang on for three minutes? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s your child, but I can tell you what I think I would say to her. And you can risk it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, back with Nancy in Olathe, Kansas.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Hi.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your daughter is 14, did you say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And what kind of hearing aids are her audiologists suggesting? I mean, how big?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re little. You can hardly see them. Sometimes I\u2019ll look at her and I\u2019ll say, “Where\u2019s your hearing aids?” and they\u2019re in because it has like a little clear tube that goes to the back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so they would be in the ear. There\u2019s nothing she\u2019s gonna be wearing behind the ear.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, actually the tube that comes out of her ear attaches to the little piece behind her ear, but it\u2019s tiny.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. All right. You know what I would tell her, based on my own experiences with this? I would do my best to get her to get over the embarrassment factor and instead to be brave. Because bravery is a great thing, and it will require some because overcoming being laughed at, being made fun of, people smirking, you know that\u2019s gonna happen. Kids are kids, and it\u2019s gonna be seen as a weakness. She needs to see it as an act of bravery that she is doing to make herself stronger. <\/p>\n

You need to impress upon her that she does not want to lose the ability to communicate with her friends, to be able to talk to them on the phone or wherever. She can always e-mail and text, that kind of thing, but there\u2019s nothing that replaces face-to-face conversation and having meaningful, intimate relationships with people. And I don\u2019t mean sexually intimate, but just giving yourself to somebody and being totally intimate, you\u2019ve gotta be able to speak and be able to hear to do that. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a fundamental aspect of learning, of education. You can learn quite a bit reading. You can absorb knowledge that way. But you learn a lot about people being able to hear them and associate sounds with the way they look. And if her hearing is really deteriorating and these hearing aids can arrest it, stop it, until something better comes along, maybe a cure, there\u2019s no reason in the world not to do it simply for the reason that she doesn\u2019t want to lose — take it from me, you don\u2019t want to lose the ability to speak to people and to be able to —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — have them hear you. But there\u2019s another thing. I asked my doctors before I got the implant, I said, “What if I don\u2019t do it? I\u2019m a professional. I know how my voice feels when I\u2019m speaking correctly.” They said, “No, your voice will deteriorate. When you can\u2019t hear yourself speak you will eventually sound like deaf people who\u2019ve never heard themselves sound. You\u2019ll not be able to be on the radio.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019ll no doubt happen if she loses the ability to hear herself as she exists. But, really, Nancy there\u2019s no reason in the world not to do this. This isn\u2019t a matter of embarrassment. I know for her it is, but you have the benefit of experience over her, you\u2019ve lived longer, you are the parent, and —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — you know more than she does. You\u2019ve lived through what she\u2019s going through now. You can relate to her in that way. You can tell her you know full well what\u2019s gonna happen and you\u2019ll be there to support her when it does. That\u2019s why, folks, it\u2019s an act of bravery to do something like this. She\u2019s doing something to improve herself and that\u2019s the way she\u2019s gotta look at it. You know, we\u2019re all dealt a hand in life and hers is what it is. But there are medical marvels and miracles that enable her to compensate for what\u2019s happening that she should take full advantage of. Because there\u2019s no replacing being able to talk to people. There simply isn\u2019t any replacement for it. There\u2019s no replacement for being able to hear what people say to you and how they say it to you. It\u2019s part of having meaningful relationships with people, which is about having a meaningful life. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s good advice.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What have you tried?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, we take away her phone and TV. And so, I mean, I can make her wear them, you know, because I am the parent. But I want her to want to, to improve her education, \u2019cause her grades do improve. I mean, you would never know that she needed hearing aids by talking to her because people would be like, “What, she wears hearing aids? I would never have known that.” So that\u2019s why I think she thinks she doesn\u2019t need them, but she really does.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, it\u2019s tough. You know, being an adult has its advantages.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: One thing I never, ever gave a second thought to was how I was gonna look. To me it was all about saving my career. And I had fun with it. People didn\u2019t know what my implant was. If they thought that I was a Secret Service agent or had some super high-tech phone device, I let \u2019em think that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, I\u2019ll tell her that. I like the bravery and all that, making her stronger. Yeah, and I\u2019ll just keep doing that. And I appreciate —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tell her it\u2019s all about being the best that she can be.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, we instill that in her, and she does, but it\u2019s like, come on, get over this vanity thing. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s gotta be tough.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Teenaged girl and vanity, that\u2019s why I wouldn\u2019t even go there. I would just — well, you know her better than I. You know how to do that. I would just focus — what is her first name?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Madison.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Madison, you want to be the best you can be, and this is part of it. You know, use the benefit of your years on her to tell her how important it is to be able to communicate with people verbally.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I will. And I\u2019ll let her listen to this. I\u2019m sure I can get it on the podcast so she can hear it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Cool. I hope it helps.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Oh, thank you. It was an honor to talk to you. My family is gonna be so jealous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) There\u2019s no reason not to do it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If she was suffering some damage in her eyes or something and there\u2019s a fix for it, there\u2019s no reason not to try to fix this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, I want you to run for president and thank you so much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I couldn\u2019t deal with the pay cut, but I\u2019ve thought about it. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. I really do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stay in touch with Mr. Snerdley, let us know how it goes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I will. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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