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The Beautiful Sound of Success

By Emily Jax, '16 Last spring, I graduated from Trident Technical College, packed up my Chevy Cruze and drove to Minneapolis, where I was eager to start a new job as a registered nurse at the Mayo Clinic.  It was a long journey – about 1,300 miles - but my personal journey started years ago, and there were many twists in the road. When I was a young child, I was often scolded by my parents for being disobedient and not listening. But what they did not realize at the time was that I lived in a very quiet world of my own and it turned out that I could not even hear them. I was eventually diagnosed with moderate sensorineural hearing loss in both ears, which meant much of what I heard was muted, if I heard anything at all. When my parents realized what was going on, they took me to an audiologist and, at the age of five, I received hearing aids. Even though the hearing aids were helpful, I still struggled. I was insecure and thought that my hearing loss would limit me. When I