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Noise causes untold problems to
people who have dementia, but recently I have noticed that it is starting to
effect me more each day.
Over the years I have noticed that the noise level has gone up
considerably in this life, and where most people seem to get on with life
ignoring this, it has become harder for me to cope.
I stopped going to a lot of meetings which were, not kept in
control by a strong chairperson, because it was becoming very difficult to
listen to the main topic while others chatted among themselves, as well as the
mobile phones which kept going off, because people would not switch them to
silent. The problem we struggle with is concentration, and while trying to keep
our concentration going on the main topic, it does not take much noise to break
this and we have to think where we were all over again.
I accept that life is very busy for most people these days, but
its no different to when I was working and mobile phones were not allowed in
meetings. It seems very strange that many people did not have these items till
the last twenty years, now it seems that many will not go anywhere without one
of these things firmly clamped to their ears, whether in the street, in a
meeting or travelling on a train, and you have to listen to their exploits from
that day or the night before, which to me is embarrassing but it means nothing
to that person them selves.
Yesterday I went with my wife to book a holiday, and found that
the noise in the Travel agents was so horrific that I removed my hearing aids,
as every one's voice was merging into one , just like one of my horrible
nightmares, and I had to leave all the decisions to my wife, who by this stage
in life is used to it.
But I often wonder why it is that people these days have to
speak to loud, and don't think of trying to speak quietly so they are not
disrupting other peoples conversations or in our case "our thoughts".
It seems we are all trying to out do each other.
It seems we are all trying to out do each other.
The same thing happens when we go shopping and it seems that
each shop has loud music being pumped out of the doors, so by the time you get
into the shop you can not think. I know that at work we had regulations concerning
the noise from machines etc, yet there does not seem to be anything covering
working in shops when they have loud music.
Another thing which seems to get me wound up is when we go into
a supermarket, and someone keeps shouting over a tannoy system, and repeats
themselves three or four times by which time, I have forgotten what I am
looking for. These places are becoming a nightmare to me, and I am starting to
hate them, either because of the tannoy systems or the mad idiots with the
trolleys who go hurtling round the aisles as if they were racing.
Or is it the fact that through my Lewy Body Dementia, my brain
these days is now struggling to pick up sounds, and some sounds are much are
louder that others.
I wish my blog could write this out without all of the mistakes
and misspellings I keep finding, but at least I can still use spell check when
I remember to use it.
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I always say that we may have this illness, but we are all so different.
This is my own daily problems, but I would gladly share anyone elses, if they send them in,