Was looking whether there's other happy audiologists here 😂 Its my favourite when people come back with a big smile telling me they can hear birds or something they haven't heard in years.
I used to suffer from a mild form of hear loss and tinitus, so this gave me a bit hope and lots of feelings of happiness for Jess! Trust me, it is so weird and sad to be in a position of a person who out of nowhere stops hearing normal sound while some are super loud and makes you crazy..... I was scared, had to stay in the hopital for 12 days... I had doctors telling me that if there is no change in 6 days, I am doomed. I feel so happy to be able to hear sounds now as I used to! I had very little support. I have a huge respect for doctors, for all people loosing hearing or sight. It is truely scary and for them necessary to have people who support them more than anything else in the whole world. Thank you for your work! It is higly appreciated ❤️😊
This reminds me of my daughter when she got her first pair of glasses @ 5 yrs old. She was amazed at the details in the trees and the bark and all if that.
A colleague got new hearing aids recently and it made her realise just how bad her hearing loss had got. She came out of the office once (I was on reception) and asked what the people in the next room were going with the door. They had just opened and closed it normally but it was so much louder than she was used to she thought they had slammed it.
I'm not a regular viewer: but I wonder, why she didn't get hearing aids sooner? Doesn't insurance cover them in the UK? I'm not meaning to be disrespectful.
@Jules Herbert Also the Rubik's cube (made entirely of plastic) makes "a wooden sound", but somehow she hears that there is an unmoving part in the middle?? I only know that because I took one apart once.
Definitely. To me it just sounds like a Plastic-y shuffling noise, but because I'm hearing and am familiar with that sound, I'd probably recognise it. Jessica doesn't have that experience.
11:48 It's so interesting to me how when she's trying to figure out what some of the sounds are, she's making movements with her hands that are almost identical to the ones Claudia is making. It's like she remembers the motions that accompany the sounds before she remembers what they are and doing the movements helps her make the connection? Man, brains are so cool!
This has the same energy as kids getting glasses for the first time and realizing that trees have individual leaves and I love it! (Speaking as a member of the four eyed crew 🤓)
lmao i remember when i first got my glasses, the thing that struck me most was a clock in the shop that had accents in a dull yellow and blurry edges i thought were probably rounded but once i put my glasses on it turned golden with sharp edges i couldn't stop looking at it from over the glasses and then through them to compare and spot the differences. i wasn't a fan of the headache i caught within the rest of the day tho :|
"Is there anything else I'm forgetting that I'm stressed about?" - This pretty much sums the year up, I think! Looking forward to your Vlogmas videos and kudos on the intro, so festive!
I started a 2020 journal (just me writing down everything happening) several months ago and I didn’t even make it all the way through March before lowkey giving up
I am recovering some functionality after seven years of being severely disabled and I gotta say, HARD RELATE on the novelty factor of such little things that healthy people take for granted! You are perfect even without your hearing but I am excited that you get to experience new sounds, especially those of Christmas.
Please don't worry about not doing as many vlogmas videos this year. It will just make every one more special and unique, the perfect end to this tumultuous year. Love you lots, and my notifications are always on!
Having grown up with 60% hearing loss and regaining a lot of it after an operation as a child and going through a similar experience again when getting hearing aids as an adult, I can say that when you get a sudden step up in hearing ability you actively hear more than 'normal' hearing people for a while until you adjust. This is because your brain needs to learn from all the new sound it can now hear, which sounds are 'normal background' that don't need to be noticed too much. Before that happens it triggers all new sounds as 'high alert full attention hear this' processing. I actually was told by the Dr to not wear my hearing aids in louder setting like by a road until my brain had re-trained some background noise out so I didn't get overwhelmed and scared. I also understand Jess's terror at the slightly louder sounds. I was terrified to flush the loo for months after the operation as a child because of how loud and scary it sounded. I would literally run to the other end of the house to make the sound as quiet as possible! Congratulations Jess on your new hearing abilities, it is so magical to hear new things xx
@@growley333 me and my mum were talking about this the other day. When she first got her hearing aids fitted she could hear people talking across the room as if they were talking right behind her
Can we talk about how Jessica is better at describing sounds than most hearing people? Like there is no way I would be able to describe the sound a Rubick’s cube makes to someone who has never heard it before.
I appreciate the volume control for the screaming loud sounds like that make me really anxious and often times I find I have to turn videos' sound down a lot thank you :3
once a deaf man told me went he got new hearing aids he discovered that computer mice make a clicking noise and how he asked the doctor to tune them so he couldnt hear nails against a calkbored
When my friend got hearing aids for the first time it was amazing and I remember her standing in our school library and quietly saying "I can hear the rain". It's one of my favourite memories.
Those hearing aids are awesome! I think you might actually be more in tune with what you are hearing than people who can hear and take it for granted. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have gotten the tinsel, Rubik's cube or the sweets if I was blindfolded.
I nearlyn had a heartattack😮😮Being danish I sometimes watch videos with english subtitles, and when Jessica said "I am deaf" the subtitles wrote "I am dead" So glad to see you alive❤️
There is nothing like a fancy new hearing aid. I’ve had my new one just over a year and songs can still catch me off guard with their beauty. Enjoy it❤️
Honestly the fact that we are merely able to celebrate Christmas this year is incredible. That you are even able to do 12 days of vlogmas is above and beyond. I am personally just thankful
I'm so impressed with the way Jessica describes sounds, it's so interesting. I never have to think about how a tin can, tinsel or tape sound, I just hear and think, oh, it's *that* thing, inmedietely. Loving the video!
16:22 Jessica your lipstick is immaculate and none of it got on Claudia’s lips!!!! What kind of makeup witchcraft are you using that is so incredibly kiss proof?!
She used to use Maybelline's Super Stay Matte, and when she tested clean beauty stuff I think she liked the Beauty Bakerie or something like that? But yes, KVD Vegan beauty also does amazing liquid lipsticks.
I’ve followed your channel for several years, watching you deal with the impact of severe hearing loss, all with a cheery outlook. What a wonderful gift these soooper doooper hearing aids are to yourself, and even to your fans - i am tearing up here with joy, seeing you hearing the world again. You made my day!!!!!!!
I’m so excited for your new hearing aids! I remember when I finally got glasses as a child (I was veryyyy near sighted and we didn’t realize until I bombed a vision test at school haha) discovering all these new colors in the trees and other far away things that I couldn’t see before. It was a really magical experience so I can only imagine how exciting this is for you! Also looking forward to whatever videos you’re able to post this month 🥰 please do not put yourself under too much pressure to release them, we know how rough this year has been
Americans almost never associate a body problem with stress and go right to, "If I am having a strange bodily issue I must be very ill or dying", but then again, medical bills are a thing in the US, so nothing gets done in a lot of cases anyway, so you just anticipate dropping dead or adding to your massively crushing debt you probably have by that point. These new hearing aids are amazing. It's almost like you're not deaf anymore with them functioning properly.
@Hellena Rose I see your point, but in my experience it's usually insurance trying to wiggle out of having to pay the doctors more than it is the doctors refusing to take it. They just want to get paid, they don't actually care whether the money came from you or the insurance company. As for the anxiety inhaler, do you happen to remember what the medicine it had was? There are actually a few inhalant medications that have been shown to be effective at treating anxiety, so it was most likely one of those.
In my case it depends on the problem. If it correlates exactly with my stress level, I assume it's just stress. If it persists even when I'm less stressed, that's when I generally assume there's some underlying problem. Like my irritable bowel syndrome, which my primary doctor insisted was just stress, and would go away in six months or less, every time I brought it up for the two years that it went untreated! :D Then I got fed up with asking her about it and made appointments with several specialists without a recommendation from from my primary care doctor (which meant insurance wouldn't cover it) to find out why the left side of my lower abdomen was swollen and distended with pain in the swollen area off and on. Now I have some medications that seem to be helping some, but I'm still not sure if that's actually my only problem... Is this related to stress - probably! But even if you know something's caused or worsened by stress, after a certain point and a certain level of pain, you should still seek help. And if something really freaky happens out the blue, go see a doctor, obviously. Examples of really freaky: a large lump that doesn't go away (possibly cancer - happened to my mom,) severe abdominal pain after being struck in the stomach by a rogue basketball, followed by nausea that doesn't go away (turned out to be appendicitis - happened to me,) difficulty breathing after being stuck in the chest by another rogue basketball (turned out to be a cracked sternum - also happened to me,) sudden loss of sensation in limbs despite being able to move them, accompanied by aching joints, nausea, chills, and abdominal pain (no one figured out what that one was, but they gave me pain killers at the hospital, did some bloodwork, and monitored my vitals, until I started to recover after about six hours, so they just told me to come back if it happened again)
I feel a bit emotional just knowing that Jessica can hear more things! She can hear her wife, and a candle and I'm just so gosh darn happy! Merry Christmas!
This year has been truly something! I feel like everyone had a lot of bad luck as well, so now I hope the rest of the decade will make up for it! But for now this Vlogmas must be enough :D
as someone who's part deaf, this made me feel whole.. the way Jessica describes sounds is amazing, looking forward to the rest of vlogmas. also look at Claudia rocking that paper crown!
When we were watching your old videos I left the Vlogmas videos for December. So we are watching this years Vlogmas but also Vlogmas of holiday's past. Take care of yourself this Holiday season! We all could use a lovely break this holiday season.
Those are amazing hearing aids! Being able to discern dimension like the fact that you can tell the tinsel was open to the air rather than contained and hearing such soft sounds like a candle...that's amazing!
So thankful for Jessica right now. My anxiety was so bad this evening, and just seeing Jessica and Claudia being their wholesome selves put a smile on my face and literally made me physically calm down from my anxious mood. Thanks so much Jessica ❣
You know how we know these hearing aids are good? She's so, so much louder than usual 😅 It means she can actually hear own voice better than she could before and her brain's loving it.
This was a lot of fun! My bunny was hanging out on my desk while I was watching and he also found some of those sounds very startling. He gave me quite a cranky look.
OH MY GOODNESS! I’m only at 6:20 & I’m literally bawling my eyes out (happy tears😭)! I can’t imagine having a sensorial deficit; the idea that you can literally now here all of the things you weren’t able to before is absolutely amazing! I am so happy for you both, & I will be praying that you will have less migraines since you won’t be struggling as much to hear! I totally respect your privacy, and I’ll continue praying that whatever has/is happening will resolve quickly. Sending you both so many gigantic 🤗 , lots of love💜, prayers🙏🏻 every morning & night that you stay safe & healthy🙏🏻😷🧼plus mooches for 😘! Hope you have a good nights rest, Happy Almost Birthday Claudia🎊🎁🎂! 🦚
This made me feel very happy for you while crying at the same time for my sister. She was born profoundly deaf, with just a little sound perception in one ear. She grew up wearing hearing aids but none as advanced as yours. She’s been gone for six years now…how joyous an aid like yours would have been for her. Congratulations, Jess.
This is the year I've finally accepted I'm disabled! My conditions have slowly gotten worse until I can't hide it anymore. I've also gotten an assistance dog this year so learning to be visible in public. Embracing the disabled identity and community, mostly online as remote island living is difficult when you're different.
Good for you! My dad is "blind" (most aren't 100% blind) and he's been making me pick up the slack for decades...kind of annoying, like when someone asks you to translate everything someone else says
I used to suffer from tinitus and mild hesr loss. I feel so happy for Jess that she got this hearing aid!!! I remember being so desperate thinking nothing and nobody can help me. Also seeing this lovely couple loving and supporting each other is heart-warming and it is giving me hope... I am hetero but still, love is love! ☺️❤️❤️❤️ I am looking forfard to see their baby this year!!!!! Lots of love to you ladies and all of you here ❤️😚😊
I am truly blown away by how much Jessica can hear!! She couldn't understand people without lipreading before and now she can hear Claudia with a blindfold on! I'm so incredibly glad you were able to get these hearing aids and I hope you continue to discover more wonderful sounds! Lots of love! xxx
My dad was late 30s when he first got hearing aids after a lifetime of being hard of hearing and losing even more hearing after an accident nearly ten years before. He asked me once what that noise was, so I showed him there was a plane in the sky. He couldn't believe that it was noise pollution-he thought I was pulling his leg! It's really cool to get to see someone experience these things for the first time (or even the first time in a long time)
Jess, you did SO WELL with your guessing! Great job! During the Korean War, my Dad was in the U. S. Army, sitting in a tank in Germany (out of the warzone at the time but things were still not the best in Germany). Tanks are LOUD today but things were so much worse in the 1950's just from the perspective of poor to no protection. Just running the engine at idle was bad. It was a Diesel engine that took a V-8 Gasoline engine in order to START the Diesel! To save weight on the tank, nice things such as mufflers were dropped. LOUD! Anyway, Dad eventually needed hearing aids. With the really bad relationship between the United States Military and the Veterans (who were no longer active) alongside a powerless Veterans Administration, Dad did not get the help he needed for decades. When he FINALLY got Hearing Aids for the first time, he was doing something else with his life which required him to carry a pistol. So, one difficult and stressful day shortly after he got his first pair of hearing aids, he walked into his apartment and was trying to wind down. He heard something behind him, spun around quickly at the same time as he drew his pistol (he thought there was an intruder, which could easily have happened because of his line of work at the time). He did not pull the trigger but he very nearly shot his brand-new refrigerator because he had never heard it click on before. I laughed a good long time after he told me that story. But it does bring things into perspective for many people. There are so many things that so many of us take for granted... I have always had TERRIBLE vision and it only gets worse as I age (along with everything else about me). There was ONE time in my life when I was able to see something that my big brother could not see. There was a high haze on a day in the autumn and a jet was flying overhead. With the light conditions and the haze, everybody could hear the jet just fine but nobody could see it because it was so high up. I had just received a new pair of glasses which had magnets attached, for a special set of sunglasses that could attach to the magnets; the sunglasses were polarized. That is how I was the only person in the yard that day who could actually see that jet. I pointed directly at it to show where it was but nobody else could, they thought I was joking. Luv ya! Can't wait to see more! Merry Christmas to you both!
Discovering new sounds is so exciting! I remember when I first got my cochlear implant how happy I was to have sound sometimes actually hurt. It may seem weird, but that was a real sign that the implant was working. it was great discovering all of the nuances of sounds that I had heard before. Birds, music etc had far more complexity than I heard before.
Jessica being instinctively terrified of everyday sounds is so endearing. It also, like ASMR, makes me want to pay more attention to the sounds in my life!
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Thank you for joining us this year in our festive jaunt to Christmas 🎄 Love to you all xxx
Thank you, I was panicking already
The link to the time code in the video when it starts isn’t in the description(if that makes sense) i just wanted to let you know
I made my phone christmassy so my lock screen is mostly christmassy pictures of you XD
thanks I have slow processing speed and need them to follow along your like the only one who always has them
Watching typically pulled together and totally classy Jessica SCREAMING at loud noises had me grinning ear to ear!
As an audiologist with 22 years experience, the sheer joy Jessica shows while talking about her hearing aids makes my heart so happy.
Was looking whether there's other happy audiologists here 😂 Its my favourite when people come back with a big smile telling me they can hear birds or something they haven't heard in years.
I used to suffer from a mild form of hear loss and tinitus, so this gave me a bit hope and lots of feelings of happiness for Jess! Trust me, it is so weird and sad to be in a position of a person who out of nowhere stops hearing normal sound while some are super loud and makes you crazy..... I was scared, had to stay in the hopital for 12 days... I had doctors telling me that if there is no change in 6 days, I am doomed. I feel so happy to be able to hear sounds now as I used to! I had very little support. I have a huge respect for doctors, for all people loosing hearing or sight. It is truely scary and for them necessary to have people who support them more than anything else in the whole world. Thank you for your work! It is higly appreciated ❤️😊
This reminds me of my daughter when she got her first pair of glasses @ 5 yrs old. She was amazed at the details in the trees and the bark and all if that.
Are we all just going to ignore the fact that Jessica can HEAR MORE SOUNDS?! That’s amazing! I’m so happy for you Jessie.
We saw this on her reels and it was magic 💛
A colleague got new hearing aids recently and it made her realise just how bad her hearing loss had got. She came out of the office once (I was on reception) and asked what the people in the next room were going with the door. They had just opened and closed it normally but it was so much louder than she was used to she thought they had slammed it.
I know! I'm so happy for her! I feel so happy for her happiness!
When she said she heard birds on her Instagram 💗 birds chirping is one of those sounds that are just so special to me.
I'm not a regular viewer: but I wonder, why she didn't get hearing aids sooner? Doesn't insurance cover them in the UK? I'm not meaning to be disrespectful.
The way Jessica describes sound blew my mind.
Riight? "Falling sensation" I never thought of it that way, but spot on.
@Jules Herbert Also the Rubik's cube (made entirely of plastic) makes "a wooden sound", but somehow she hears that there is an unmoving part in the middle??
I only know that because I took one apart once.
Almost as if she’s blind. 😉
Same
“it’s crunkling!”
When Jess said about the Rubik cube that it was parts moving around but one part doesn't, I genuinely though she'd developed super powers!!
Clever woman!
Agreed! This was really amazing!
Give her a year and she'll be a master lock picker
Seriously!
Definitely. To me it just sounds like a Plastic-y shuffling noise, but because I'm hearing and am familiar with that sound, I'd probably recognise it. Jessica doesn't have that experience.
11:48 It's so interesting to me how when she's trying to figure out what some of the sounds are, she's making movements with her hands that are almost identical to the ones Claudia is making. It's like she remembers the motions that accompany the sounds before she remembers what they are and doing the movements helps her make the connection? Man, brains are so cool!
it's a retrieval cue!!
@@amberdaze7892 ah, cool! There’s a word for it!
Amazingggg, that's so interesting!!
This has the same energy as kids getting glasses for the first time and realizing that trees have individual leaves and I love it! (Speaking as a member of the four eyed crew 🤓)
Very true
Totally what I said driving home from the optometrist when I was 7!
This is exactly what I said! Along with "Mom! There are birds!! I mean like i can see the birds!!"
lmao i remember when i first got my glasses, the thing that struck me most was a clock in the shop that had accents in a dull yellow and blurry edges i thought were probably rounded but once i put my glasses on it turned golden with sharp edges i couldn't stop looking at it from over the glasses and then through them to compare and spot the differences. i wasn't a fan of the headache i caught within the rest of the day tho :|
@@mscowable being able to see birds blew my little mind!
"Is there anything else I'm forgetting that I'm stressed about?" - This pretty much sums the year up, I think! Looking forward to your Vlogmas videos and kudos on the intro, so festive!
It is such a mood!
describes me my whole life frankly but this year in particular
@@GBfanatic15 same
I started a 2020 journal (just me writing down everything happening) several months ago and I didn’t even make it all the way through March before lowkey giving up
I am recovering some functionality after seven years of being severely disabled and I gotta say, HARD RELATE on the novelty factor of such little things that healthy people take for granted! You are perfect even without your hearing but I am excited that you get to experience new sounds, especially those of Christmas.
and i’m excited for you!! disabled solidarity here 💕💕💕
Glad to hear you are recovering. It can be a long road.
Wynne! Hello!
I love that Jessica turned down the sound when she screamed or the sound was really loud, I really appreciate that and I'm sure many others do too!
Yes! I'm very thankful. I couldn't have seen it otherwise.
Yes big same.
so true! was about to comment this myself :)
I feel like this is just an excuse for Claudia to scare Jessica to death 😂
I know! It's like she's gone "What will get me into the Christmas spirit? I know - repeatedly terrifying my Deaf girlfriend!"
@@sianthesheep You mean "wife"?
@@sianthesheep wife ...
Jessica: There are noises and I am not appreciative nor did I expect.
@@NightOwlReader2790 Yes, wife! I was having a POTS brain moment!
I cried a little when she was listening to the birds. I love the sound of birdsong. I never realized that I took it for granted.
Please don't worry about not doing as many vlogmas videos this year. It will just make every one more special and unique, the perfect end to this tumultuous year. Love you lots, and my notifications are always on!
Agreed!
Reasonable goals, yay!
Jessica is honestly better at guessing sounds than I would be, and my hearing is completely in-tact.
Having grown up with 60% hearing loss and regaining a lot of it after an operation as a child and going through a similar experience again when getting hearing aids as an adult, I can say that when you get a sudden step up in hearing ability you actively hear more than 'normal' hearing people for a while until you adjust. This is because your brain needs to learn from all the new sound it can now hear, which sounds are 'normal background' that don't need to be noticed too much. Before that happens it triggers all new sounds as 'high alert full attention hear this' processing. I actually was told by the Dr to not wear my hearing aids in louder setting like by a road until my brain had re-trained some background noise out so I didn't get overwhelmed and scared. I also understand Jess's terror at the slightly louder sounds. I was terrified to flush the loo for months after the operation as a child because of how loud and scary it sounded. I would literally run to the other end of the house to make the sound as quiet as possible!
Congratulations Jess on your new hearing abilities, it is so magical to hear new things xx
@@growley333 me and my mum were talking about this the other day. When she first got her hearing aids fitted she could hear people talking across the room as if they were talking right behind her
@@growley333 That makes a lot of sense, thank you for sharing💙
I cannot tell you how hyped I am for this Vlogmas
Can we talk about how Jessica is better at describing sounds than most hearing people? Like there is no way I would be able to describe the sound a Rubick’s cube makes to someone who has never heard it before.
Ιn hindsight, I love how Jess tries to keep from smiling while she's trying to explain the "personal reasons" vlogmas was different.
I appreciate the volume control for the screaming
loud sounds like that make me really anxious and often times I find I have to turn videos' sound down a lot
thank you :3
Today I learned Brits say "boiled sweet" and Americans say "hard candy".
Thanks! I couldn't figure out what "boiled sweets" were ^_^;
and Swedes say karamell about that type of candy. :)
Was just about to ask!
@@WateryStar I'm American and was lost too!
I had no idea Americans called it hard candy. In Australia we say lolly for candy/sweet so it's a boiled lolly.
This is like asmr, scaring Jessica every now and then as an option
I am literally so impressed with Jessica's ability to describe sounds and guess. The rubik's cube one was insane
When my aunt got her hearing aids she cried...she had forgotten what the birds sounded like. I am so glad you're getting new sounds!!
She needs a break after the match strike.
😂 I know right!
Anyone else really excited that Jessica can hear more things?
Yes!!
once a deaf man told me went he got new hearing aids he discovered that computer mice make a clicking noise and how he asked the doctor to tune them so he couldnt hear nails against a calkbored
"To get us in the mood"
*wiggly eyebrows* "get us in the mood for anything?"
"put your blindfold on then darling"
i. love. this. so. much.
Iconic 💖
12:42
Yes, it was so funny!
I love your pfp
@@Ash-kw2nd jkjksqjskjhahh thanx
I wear the same hearing aids! don't know why I felt like I had to say that but I thought it was kinda cool
It is & they're really good from what I see 👍
What are the hearing aids they look amazing
me too! at least i think so, they’re very similar :)
@@maggiestaunton you can see the info at 4:34 , they're called Resound
My grandpa has an older versiin of the ones Jessica wears but without phone controls and chargable batteries.
So, one of my favorite sounds, and the one that a friend was fascinated by when she heard it for the first time, is a cat purring. It’s so soothing.💕
I love how the "startling noises" content warning is really just for Jessica's screams at any mildly abrupt sounds 😂
When my friend got hearing aids for the first time it was amazing and I remember her standing in our school library and quietly saying "I can hear the rain". It's one of my favourite memories.
Don’t worry about not posting as many! Honestly I can’t keep up when youtubers post everyday and your health is more important
It's wild how much you can hear now!
I saw when you got fitted for your new hearing aids and could hear birds I was so happy for you!!!!;
Oh the things we take for granted in life, like knowing what birds sound like. What a lovely reminder
Those hearing aids are awesome! I think you might actually be more in tune with what you are hearing than people who can hear and take it for granted. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have gotten the tinsel, Rubik's cube or the sweets if I was blindfolded.
I nearlyn had a heartattack😮😮Being danish I sometimes watch videos with english subtitles, and when Jessica said "I am deaf" the subtitles wrote "I am dead" So glad to see you alive❤️
Technology is amazing, it blows my mind and melts my heart to see a deaf woman be able to hear again!
Watching this after the "Surprise" video is HILARIOUS.
YAY!! Vlogmas with the Kellgren-Fozards is finally here!
There is nothing like a fancy new hearing aid. I’ve had my new one just over a year and songs can still catch me off guard with their beauty. Enjoy it❤️
anyone else here after ~the announcement~ imagining how happy jessica will be to hear her baby crying
The way you describe new sounds is totally fascinating!
Honestly the fact that we are merely able to celebrate Christmas this year is incredible. That you are even able to do 12 days of vlogmas is above and beyond. I am personally just thankful
The joy in Jessica’s face as she can hear new things is amazing!!!
God, 2020 has been the worst. I'm glad I found you guys. It's nice to spend 20 minutes with you two not feeling the suck.
the way Jessica visualises sounds so well despite being deaf is fascinating to me. I love it
I'm so impressed with the way Jessica describes sounds, it's so interesting. I never have to think about how a tin can, tinsel or tape sound, I just hear and think, oh, it's *that* thing, inmedietely. Loving the video!
Whether it’s 12 or 2 or 24 videos, I’m just happy to spend some time with you. Happy Vlogmas everybody!
And you! :)
The 'Aww i love you too baby' just made me squeal. You two are relationship goals!
16:22 Jessica your lipstick is immaculate and none of it got on Claudia’s lips!!!! What kind of makeup witchcraft are you using that is so incredibly kiss proof?!
It's not makeup witchcraft, it's just witchcraft
I think I remember her using revlon's liquid lipsticks or rimmel or something like that? I have the same product and it stays so we'll!
I don't remember exactly what she uses, but the KVD matte liquid lip doesn't move. Try that.
She used to use Maybelline's Super Stay Matte, and when she tested clean beauty stuff I think she liked the Beauty Bakerie or something like that?
But yes, KVD Vegan beauty also does amazing liquid lipsticks.
@@carameldare while this is true, i found it sooo drying
I’ve followed your channel for several years, watching you deal with the impact of severe hearing loss, all with a cheery outlook. What a wonderful gift these soooper doooper hearing aids are to yourself, and even to your fans - i am tearing up here with joy, seeing you hearing the world again. You made my day!!!!!!!
I’m so excited for your new hearing aids! I remember when I finally got glasses as a child (I was veryyyy near sighted and we didn’t realize until I bombed a vision test at school haha) discovering all these new colors in the trees and other far away things that I couldn’t see before. It was a really magical experience so I can only imagine how exciting this is for you! Also looking forward to whatever videos you’re able to post this month 🥰 please do not put yourself under too much pressure to release them, we know how rough this year has been
Does this mean we all know now what's that family matter? Haha.. Congratulations!!!!
Americans almost never associate a body problem with stress and go right to, "If I am having a strange bodily issue I must be very ill or dying", but then again, medical bills are a thing in the US, so nothing gets done in a lot of cases anyway, so you just anticipate dropping dead or adding to your massively crushing debt you probably have by that point. These new hearing aids are amazing. It's almost like you're not deaf anymore with them functioning properly.
Until she takes them out for a bath 👀😂
@@coramcvey270 Unless she was going to get her head wet, she wouldn't necessarily have to take them out.
@Hellena Rose I see your point, but in my experience it's usually insurance trying to wiggle out of having to pay the doctors more than it is the doctors refusing to take it. They just want to get paid, they don't actually care whether the money came from you or the insurance company. As for the anxiety inhaler, do you happen to remember what the medicine it had was? There are actually a few inhalant medications that have been shown to be effective at treating anxiety, so it was most likely one of those.
In my case it depends on the problem. If it correlates exactly with my stress level, I assume it's just stress. If it persists even when I'm less stressed, that's when I generally assume there's some underlying problem. Like my irritable bowel syndrome, which my primary doctor insisted was just stress, and would go away in six months or less, every time I brought it up for the two years that it went untreated! :D Then I got fed up with asking her about it and made appointments with several specialists without a recommendation from from my primary care doctor (which meant insurance wouldn't cover it) to find out why the left side of my lower abdomen was swollen and distended with pain in the swollen area off and on. Now I have some medications that seem to be helping some, but I'm still not sure if that's actually my only problem...
Is this related to stress - probably! But even if you know something's caused or worsened by stress, after a certain point and a certain level of pain, you should still seek help. And if something really freaky happens out the blue, go see a doctor, obviously. Examples of really freaky: a large lump that doesn't go away (possibly cancer - happened to my mom,) severe abdominal pain after being struck in the stomach by a rogue basketball, followed by nausea that doesn't go away (turned out to be appendicitis - happened to me,) difficulty breathing after being stuck in the chest by another rogue basketball (turned out to be a cracked sternum - also happened to me,) sudden loss of sensation in limbs despite being able to move them, accompanied by aching joints, nausea, chills, and abdominal pain (no one figured out what that one was, but they gave me pain killers at the hospital, did some bloodwork, and monitored my vitals, until I started to recover after about six hours, so they just told me to come back if it happened again)
@Hellena Rose because not proven and American health care insurance is a joke in general
I feel a bit emotional just knowing that Jessica can hear more things! She can hear her wife, and a candle and I'm just so gosh darn happy! Merry Christmas!
oml y’all are so adorable!!! 😭
I’m here after the baby video! Congratulations to you both!
This year has been truly something! I feel like everyone had a lot of bad luck as well, so now I hope the rest of the decade will make up for it! But for now this Vlogmas must be enough :D
Really hope the private thing resolves in an okay way! Sending lots of love to both of you.
idk if u saw but her wife is pregnant
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this is the cutest flipping thing I've ever seen. Y'all are simply too much.
She looked at the bump when she said personal family thing they cant talk about lol.
Words cannot describe how much I appreciate the volume lowering when screams happen. You're saving some of your listeners a lot of stress ❤
as someone who's part deaf, this made me feel whole.. the way Jessica describes sounds is amazing, looking forward to the rest of vlogmas. also look at Claudia rocking that paper crown!
Vlogmas is here! Sidenote: could you do a tutorial on your hairstyle for this video? It’s so pretty!
Claudia gently brushing back Jessica’s hair is everything. I hope the private issue/thing gets better!
When we were watching your old videos I left the Vlogmas videos for December. So we are watching this years Vlogmas but also Vlogmas of holiday's past. Take care of yourself this Holiday season! We all could use a lovely break this holiday season.
I love that the auto-captions picked up “I’m just really into my hearing aids” as “I’m just really into my husband” 😆
HAHHAHAHHA well... not sure that's correct
Those are amazing hearing aids! Being able to discern dimension like the fact that you can tell the tinsel was open to the air rather than contained and hearing such soft sounds like a candle...that's amazing!
This is the most wholesome
I'm also so excited she'll hear their baby😭💖
So thankful for Jessica right now. My anxiety was so bad this evening, and just seeing Jessica and Claudia being their wholesome selves put a smile on my face and literally made me physically calm down from my anxious mood. Thanks so much Jessica ❣
You know how we know these hearing aids are good? She's so, so much louder than usual 😅 It means she can actually hear own voice better than she could before and her brain's loving it.
Taking care of yourself is very important and should come first! Very glad you recognize that and are giving yourself what you need
I need to see Jess reacting to ASMR videos with these new hearing aids!
Oh, poor Jessica when the match was struck! I loved how you described the tinsel and the Rubik’s cube. This video was wonderful!
This was a lot of fun! My bunny was hanging out on my desk while I was watching and he also found some of those sounds very startling. He gave me quite a cranky look.
OH MY GOODNESS! I’m only at 6:20 & I’m literally bawling my eyes out (happy tears😭)! I can’t imagine having a sensorial deficit; the idea that you can literally now here all of the things you weren’t able to before is absolutely amazing! I am so happy for you both, & I will be praying that you will have less migraines since you won’t be struggling as much to hear! I totally respect your privacy, and I’ll continue praying that whatever has/is happening will resolve quickly. Sending you both so many gigantic 🤗 , lots of love💜, prayers🙏🏻 every morning & night that you stay safe & healthy🙏🏻😷🧼plus mooches for 😘! Hope you have a good nights rest, Happy Almost Birthday Claudia🎊🎁🎂! 🦚
How wonderful to get better hearing! Except for matches! So happy for you!
Jessica describes sounds so well, specially considering the fact that she's deaf lol shes a super human indeed
After binge-watching all of your old Vlogmases, I can finally watch one live and kinda feel lika a part of it all😍
This made me feel very happy for you while crying at the same time for my sister. She was born profoundly deaf, with just a little sound perception in one ear. She grew up wearing hearing aids but none as advanced as yours. She’s been gone for six years now…how joyous an aid like yours would have been for her. Congratulations, Jess.
This is the year I've finally accepted I'm disabled! My conditions have slowly gotten worse until I can't hide it anymore. I've also gotten an assistance dog this year so learning to be visible in public. Embracing the disabled identity and community, mostly online as remote island living is difficult when you're different.
*sending hugs*
Good for you! My dad is "blind" (most aren't 100% blind) and he's been making me pick up the slack for decades...kind of annoying, like when someone asks you to translate everything someone else says
I used to suffer from tinitus and mild hesr loss. I feel so happy for Jess that she got this hearing aid!!! I remember being so desperate thinking nothing and nobody can help me. Also seeing this lovely couple loving and supporting each other is heart-warming and it is giving me hope... I am hetero but still, love is love! ☺️❤️❤️❤️ I am looking forfard to see their baby this year!!!!! Lots of love to you ladies and all of you here ❤️😚😊
I’m sorry there’s been family things going on! I hope you two will be adding to your family soon, too! I know pre-pandemic that was a hope of yours!
I am truly blown away by how much Jessica can hear!! She couldn't understand people without lipreading before and now she can hear Claudia with a blindfold on! I'm so incredibly glad you were able to get these hearing aids and I hope you continue to discover more wonderful sounds! Lots of love! xxx
Jessica's startle response adds a level of drama to this I didn't know I needed
I didn't knew I needed Jessica hearing a match for the first time in years, but it was hilarious
it's absolutely amazing to think that I have been watching long enough to have watched last years as it was being released. I love your videos ♥
The absolute fascination of Jessica comprehending new sounds is beautiful - makes me really appreciate what I take for granted!
This was fascinating, the way she described sounds was so thorough, but baffling. It had me questioning how I heard everything 😂
Oh my gosh, the depth of these descriptions are amazing.
I absolutely loved the way you said "HWUUHH its BABBAL RAP"
This is my favorite TH-cam video for this whole year. Watching Jessica hear made my heart happy.
Do I need to be the first one to say I really need Jessica’s festive mistletoe blouse in my life?
Right? HOW DO I GET IT
It's from Hell Bunny
@@nurek168 Hey thanks!
I thought it was holly
My dad was late 30s when he first got hearing aids after a lifetime of being hard of hearing and losing even more hearing after an accident nearly ten years before. He asked me once what that noise was, so I showed him there was a plane in the sky. He couldn't believe that it was noise pollution-he thought I was pulling his leg! It's really cool to get to see someone experience these things for the first time (or even the first time in a long time)
I'm so happy for you Jessica!! Your reactions were priceless ❤
Jess, you did SO WELL with your guessing! Great job!
During the Korean War, my Dad was in the U. S. Army, sitting in a tank in Germany (out of the warzone at the time but things were still not the best in Germany). Tanks are LOUD today but things were so much worse in the 1950's just from the perspective of poor to no protection. Just running the engine at idle was bad. It was a Diesel engine that took a V-8 Gasoline engine in order to START the Diesel! To save weight on the tank, nice things such as mufflers were dropped. LOUD!
Anyway, Dad eventually needed hearing aids. With the really bad relationship between the United States Military and the Veterans (who were no longer active) alongside a powerless Veterans Administration, Dad did not get the help he needed for decades. When he FINALLY got Hearing Aids for the first time, he was doing something else with his life which required him to carry a pistol. So, one difficult and stressful day shortly after he got his first pair of hearing aids, he walked into his apartment and was trying to wind down. He heard something behind him, spun around quickly at the same time as he drew his pistol (he thought there was an intruder, which could easily have happened because of his line of work at the time). He did not pull the trigger but he very nearly shot his brand-new refrigerator because he had never heard it click on before.
I laughed a good long time after he told me that story. But it does bring things into perspective for many people. There are so many things that so many of us take for granted...
I have always had TERRIBLE vision and it only gets worse as I age (along with everything else about me). There was ONE time in my life when I was able to see something that my big brother could not see. There was a high haze on a day in the autumn and a jet was flying overhead. With the light conditions and the haze, everybody could hear the jet just fine but nobody could see it because it was so high up. I had just received a new pair of glasses which had magnets attached, for a special set of sunglasses that could attach to the magnets; the sunglasses were polarized. That is how I was the only person in the yard that day who could actually see that jet. I pointed directly at it to show where it was but nobody else could, they thought I was joking.
Luv ya! Can't wait to see more! Merry Christmas to you both!
literally crying, this was so cute
Discovering new sounds is so exciting! I remember when I first got my cochlear implant how happy I was to have sound sometimes actually hurt. It may seem weird, but that was a real sign that the implant was working. it was great discovering all of the nuances of sounds that I had heard before. Birds, music etc had far more complexity than I heard before.
*the sound of my wife eating a boiled sweet*
Jessica being instinctively terrified of everyday sounds is so endearing. It also, like ASMR, makes me want to pay more attention to the sounds in my life!