Category Archives: disability

Lost Spring

Posted on July 11, 2026 by daeja's view

I had my left hip replaced a few months ago. The necessity arose in a rather sudden way and the surgery took place almost immediately. This is not my first dance with a hip. Twelve years ago the right one … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Are you kidding me?, Coping, disability, disability accommodations, Friends, Gardening, nature, Perspective, Photography, Rant, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, summer, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized, Vent, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Wildlife | Tagged beautiful clouds, catharsis, cloud iridescence, clouds, everything seems funny, getting out of the house, green drinks, haka catharsis, handicap parking spaces, hip pain, hip pain after surgery, immobile, invasive species in the garden, life, lost spring, lost summer, my post op rage, porch facelift, post op complications, recovering from hip replacement, setbacks in recovery, sky, spotted lanternflies, THR, total hip replacement, trouble walking after hip replacement | Leave a comment

Between the Sounds

Posted on November 23, 2025 by daeja's view

This unexpectedly came across my social media feed yesterday. These simple words hold such personal impact that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it – especially the last number of lines. They encompass a different kind of loss … Continue reading →

Posted in advocacy, Aging, Coping, Deafness, disability, grief, Hearing Impaired, Perspective, senior musings, Uncategorized | Tagged a different kind of loss, Deafness, explaining hearing loss to others, filling in the blanks, grief, hard of hearing, hearing exhaustion, hearing loss, invisibly disability, left out, missed connections, missing sounds, navigating a hearing world, social disconnections, struggling to hear | Leave a comment

Fighting Windmills

Posted on February 4, 2025 by daeja's view

Early on I had a gut feeling where this would be heading and how it would most likely end up, but decided to hold out in the (futile?) hope that there might be some righteousness in all of it. Once … Continue reading →

Posted in advocacy, Aging, Are you kidding me?, Coping, Deafness, disability, disability accommodations, grief, Hearing Impaired, Perspective, Rant, Regrets, senior musings, Uncategorized, Vent | Tagged Anthony Bourdain, bad closed captioning, business, CC out of sync, closed caption, closed captioning, CNN, CNN accessibility discrimination, CNN documentary series, CNN out of sync, CNN Sucks, corporate disrespect, deaf discrimination, discrimination, FCC Disability Rights Office, hard of hearing, hearing discrimination, hearing loss, Jake Tepper, left out, Linda Ronstadt, Martha Stewart, news, Stanley Tucci, The New York Times, Tom Hanks | Leave a comment

A Simple Kindness

Posted on February 26, 2024 by daeja's view

Many years ago while on a flight from Istanbul to New York, I settled in to watch an inflight movie, when all of a sudden the headset I had brought stopped working. While the airline had packaged headsets provided for … Continue reading →

Posted in advocacy, Aging, Are you kidding me?, Coping, Deafness, disability, disability accommodations, Flashback, Hearing Impaired, Perspective, Rant, Travel, Uncategorized, Vent | Tagged accommodations, airline headsets, airlines, broken headset, disability, disability accommodations, disability awareness, flying while deaf, hard of hearing, headsets, Hearing Impaired, invisible disability, the cheap seats | Leave a comment

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