Rachel Shenton Quotes

It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.

I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.

When Joe Kennedy had his stroke, all our plans went out the window.

When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!

The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney Boys' High School and to profit from the teaching there.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

My dementia hasn't just affected me - it's affected my friends and family, too.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

If you're in a family unit... and the boys are having a particularly hard time, the impact on the entire family is troublesome.

I was very shy. I didn't really hang around with hearing people very much. Mostly I had deaf friends.

When I lost my hearing, my mom got a deaf mentor to come into the home.

When cancer affects somebody in the family, the whole family is affected.

I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.

When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

There is very little magic in the world of the chronically ill.

The life of any chronically ill person becomes extremely isolating.

I don't know that hearing people have ever felt that experience of truly being left out. They have easy communication, while deaf people can't join in. It takes more time to communicate with us.

I may never have a normal life again.