At age 12, I completely lost my hearing after years of battling ear infections. My family didn\u2019t know any sign language, so communication was slow and frustrating. Then one night, I found my dad watching ASL videos on YouTube.<\/p>\n
Every evening after work, he studied late into the night. Within months, he could chat with me fluently and even got my school to start offering ASL classes. Story 2 : For my wedding, my grandma gifted me her old, torn sofa. My husband didn\u2019t want it in our \u201cmodern home.\u201d 11 years later, we divorced. I moved, out and sent the sofa to be fixed. The repairman looked stunned when he saw it\u2014he said it was ancient and would take a lot of work. I told him there was no rush. The next day, he called me in a panic: \u201cCome fast!\u201d. Inside the sofa were stacks of money,<\/p>\n
Some gold coins, and a letter from my grandmother: \u201cThese are for your hardest days. I trust you\u2019ll find them when you\u2019re meant to.\u201d She never approved of, my marriage and must have known I\u2019d need help one day. Even after her passing, she found a way to protect me when I needed it most.Today, he runs a weekend sign language group for other parents. Because of him, I never feel left out at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At age 12, I completely lost my hearing after years of battling ear infections. My family didn\u2019t know any sign language, so communication was slow and frustrating…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n