Sara, whilst sitting at the dentists, hears this unknown noise and so asks her kids, “What’s that noise?!” Her daughter responded hesitatingly, “Drilling!”. She then realised just how thankful she was not being able to hear that and relatively came the question, “What other noises can we be thankful for not hearing?”
This prompted these answers as below, from fellow Tree House dwellers.
– Snoring.
– People chewing.
– Knuckles cracking.
– My dog licking next to me.
– People weeing in the public cubicles and heavy breathing.
– My son enjoys not being woken by the rubbish / recycling lorry … or rather I do!
– In Austria right next to my parents house, tractor with snow plough! That scares the life out of me!
– Cats fighting, car alarms, sirens sometimes, children screaming … Blissful at times, very worrying at others.
– Squelching noises when prepping food.
– One that gets me every time is when people scrape their forks with their teeth- and grinding their teeth.. irritating!
– The wife! (You brave, brave man!)
– Sara confessed to just having a Cadbury eclair and was conscious of the noise it made there and then despite never noticing before! Suck, squelch … Hmmm nice chocolate … Squelch!
– Forks scraping on plates, cotton wool on teeth at the dentist, other people snoring when you’re camping and bicycle brakes squealing.
– I’m glad I can’t hear the traffic or other sounds when I’m sleeping.
– Excellent not to hear drunken party revellers in the next hotel room! I was talking to one of the wedding guests using the same hotel as me..she could not sleep a wink due to the loud music and talk in the next room. Deafies sleep pretty well throughout.
– Paul told a story: Hearing aids that whistle at 3am! (There’s a story coming!) It was my mate’s stag do. We had all had copious amounts of the “falling down water” and we all went back to the youth hostel to retire for the night. There was a strange noise coming from one of my friend’s bags. Although the room was pitch black and it took me and another hearing guy over an hour to discover where it was coming from. When we found it, liberating the battery from the aid, me and him both slept reasonably well (apart from being surrounded by 4 deaf heavy snorers) until they woke up around 8am and so me and him had about 4 hours sleep before driving back to Birmingham. Oh its great being hearing trust me(!)
The Tree House. 
Reblogged this on lyndasharp2 and commented:
Oh so reassuring to know that other implantees share with me the startling sounds never appreciated prior to cochlear implantation. I state this in full as to my followers who may need clarification. My upstairs neighbours are bewildered that I can suddenly hear them clopping around and they sound like horses galloping up down stairs and it proves that just because of deafness they do not need to modify their noisy habits. Is this a new challenge for implantees to raise awareness in that aspect?