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Anne Holmes said Odell, a six-year-old Yorkshire terrier and toy poodle cross, had transformed her life since the Hearing Dogs for Deaf People brought them together in August 2007.
The 67-year-old has been profoundly deaf since birth, and said: ?I was a very lonely person and did not converse. I spent a lot of time in bed or on the computer. I could not hear what people were saying and I was afraid of not understanding what they were saying, and I was frightened of being on my own in the house.?
Mrs Holmes, who lives in Quebec Road, Dereham, and her husband Frank, 89, spent a week living with Odell at the charity?s Buckinghamshire base while she was training to respond to specific sounds.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/hearing...inspires_dereham_fundraising_appeal_1_1383316
The 67-year-old has been profoundly deaf since birth, and said: ?I was a very lonely person and did not converse. I spent a lot of time in bed or on the computer. I could not hear what people were saying and I was afraid of not understanding what they were saying, and I was frightened of being on my own in the house.?
Mrs Holmes, who lives in Quebec Road, Dereham, and her husband Frank, 89, spent a week living with Odell at the charity?s Buckinghamshire base while she was training to respond to specific sounds.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/hearing...inspires_dereham_fundraising_appeal_1_1383316