http://www.bingbonghotdog.com/2010/01/15/its-a-hearing-aid-no-wait-it-is-bluetooth/ ...you didn't expect a serious blog title from Versa Dave did you?? Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:12:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.bingbonghotdog.com/2010/01/15/its-a-hearing-aid-no-wait-it-is-bluetooth/comment-page-1/#comment-688 renee Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:35:09 +0000 http://www.bingbonghotdog.com/?p=292#comment-688 You. Are. A. Phenomenal. Writer. About a hundred things flew through my thoughts as I read this, images, feelings-I *felt* the triumph and wonder of the moment you put your head out of the car window and heard the world-but even though I knew some of the "facts of the matter", this piece just was really...Wow. It's pretty damned amazing when a writer can make his reader feel *envy* towards a person with what is, to many people, a HUGE challenge. But that's what I felt. Initial thought: "Whoa! He's so lucky-being able to remember the exact moment one of his senses came came alive!" And it's true. Do I wish you didn't have to go through everything to get to that moment? Absolutely. But what got me is that you chose to remember and to write about *that* moment. That elation. I'm not sure that most people who acquired a hearing aid or something else that made them "different" at the brink of teenagehood would be able to do that. I'm not belittling the challenge it has been to you at all, nor what a integral part of you it is; it's just that when I think of @VersaDave, the hearing loss is about number 50 on the list. You just blew my mind, sir. You. Are. A. Phenomenal. Writer.
About a hundred things flew through my thoughts as I read this, images, feelings-I *felt* the triumph and wonder of the moment you put your head out of the car window and heard the world-but even though I knew some of the “facts of the matter”, this piece just was really…Wow.
It’s pretty damned amazing when a writer can make his reader feel *envy* towards a person with what is, to many people, a HUGE challenge. But that’s what I felt. Initial thought: “Whoa! He’s so lucky-being able to remember the exact moment one of his senses came came alive!”
And it’s true. Do I wish you didn’t have to go through everything to get to that moment? Absolutely. But what got me is that you chose to remember and to write about *that* moment. That elation. I’m not sure that most people who acquired a hearing aid or something else that made them “different” at the brink of teenagehood would be able to do that.
I’m not belittling the challenge it has been to you at all, nor what a integral part of you it is; it’s just that when I think of @VersaDave, the hearing loss is about number 50 on the list.
You just blew my mind, sir.

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