UK National Blog Awards – being shortlisted
It was a simple question, how did I feel to be shortlisted for the 2015 Blog Awards? So why has it taken seven rewrites to get to reach an answer?
Well, I’ve over-thought the question, because I’d hate anybody to think I’d hoped to receive any recognition for the blog. My aim was to continue what Sue, my partner (for 29 ½ years now) and I discovered when we attended an Intensive Rehabilitation Programme at Eastbourne – it really does help to talk about the difficulties that comes with hearing loss.
After our week by the seaside I was asked if I would write a blog from the hearing partners’ viewpoint. I’d wanted to put something back after Hearing Link were so understanding and caring to a bunch of strangers, so I was happy to agree even though I couldn’t imagine anyone being interested in my ramblings. I’ve tried to make my ramblings light hearted because there’s more than enough gloom involved with hearing loss, but I’ve always worried that readers would think I was trying to appear wise and knowledgeable. I’m not!
So here I am, writing about our lives and hoping that readers might get something positive from our mistakes. I always adhere to the learned words of a wise Psychiatrist when I write, “It may be an unwise man that doesn’t learn from his own mistakes but it’s an absolute idiot that doesn’t learn from other people’s”. Thank you Doctor Frasier Crane, I will be that idiot to prevent someone finding out things the hard way.
In all seriousness I’m stunned that anyone thought my words good enough to nominate, let alone go forward to the short listing. I have no expectation of winning, the last thing I won was a cut out Dalek model in a competition on Blue Peter back in the days of two TV channels. Thanks to Hearing Link for putting the blog forward and thanks to the readers who voted, not for me, but the blog.
Hearing partners, I’m going to appear a right sma****s* now; if you haven’t tried the deaf experience yet, please do. It’s the only way to fully understand what our partners experience every day and a great way to learn why not to eat and talk to a deaf person.