What I do is I get the sheet music and I put it out for myself and then I use a visual tuner to go through each note individually. And every time I make a mistake, I start the song over again, so I use the muscle memory of intervals and then watching that tuner, and then a lot of repetition. Mandy Harvey Read Quote
I was a shy child. I had anxiety. I used to cry when I had to give a presentation. Mandy Harvey Read Quote
With a progressive issue, it was always a monkey that was chasing me down. I had a great fear of losing my hearing. In my gut, I always knew that it was going to happen. I was just hoping that it would happen when I was 50 and not when I was 18. Mandy Harvey Read Quote
My feeling of security really went down the tubes when I couldn’t hear anymore. When it got dark, I’d get very afraid because I can’t hear people coming up behind me. Mandy Harvey Read Quote
I miss the common things, the things that used to really annoy me, like an alarm clock. The sound of your zipper as your fly is being pulled up so that you know it actually is up. The sound of the door as it closes, to know that it’s really shut. Mandy Harvey Read Quote
I work a lot with dynamics of how loud I’m talking, like speaking into balloons and then feeling the texture on my fingertips, and then I get used to the feeling on my throat. Mandy Harvey Read Quote
There is a lot of technology out there that can help people with hearing loss including wearable technology that vibrates. Mandy Harvey Read Quote
