How did I feel on the way to the doctor’s office for hook up? Nothing. It was as if we were dropping off a kid or running an errand. Just didn’t want to have expectations and let things happen as they go. Pam (the person working with me) talked a few minutes about the CI …
Category: Implant Experience
Vertigo
I am feeling a little better today after getting a prescription for my heartburn and drinking a homemade ginger drink. Ironically, the ginger drink also gives me a heartburn, but not to the severity I had experienced a couple of days ago. Just got an email from someone whose son experienced vertigo for several weeks …
Still Living in Bed
I’m PO’d now. It’s been almost three weeks and I am still not feeling well. It is not all because of the implant. I’ve had heartburn and reflux, which kept me awake most of the night last night. I desperately want to feel better, get back to work, and get the kids ready for school. …
Bionic Hearing Reality
There’s much confusion on what a cochlear implant will do for a person’s hearing especially since many variables come to play. Before I started looking into CI again (we went to House Ear Institute in LA and had looked into it wayyyyyyyy back in 1984 when it was one channel or something), I thought CIs …
Virus
No, this isn’t about a computer virus. I’m sure you hear enough on that. Instead, it’s a Meryl virus. Looks like I may have come down with a stomach virus or something of the sort that isn’t contagious since no one else in the family has been hit with it. I doubt it has anything …
Speech Coding Strategies
In exchanging emails with another cochlear implant recipient, he asked what coding strategy I was going to use when hooked up. Imagine a perplexed look on my face. You may think it’s nuts that I’m taking on such a big undertaking that I wouldn’t be up to speed on coding strategies. Remember, I was just …
The Album Is Open
I promised pictures. And pictures there be!
One Small Step
I did manage to get one computer task done today and it felt good to do it. However, I’m being forced to share a column with another person because of my inability to work right now. They didn’t twist my arm into doing this, but I agree it’s necessary since it’s a timing issue. Oh, …
Ugh
I’m at my desktop PC trying to see if I can work wearing shades. Nope. I’m sick to my stomach.
Sigh
I rarely post my personal feelings in a blog, but I am just so frustrated and angry with being cooped up and uncomfortable. No one to talk with since poor Paul is stuck with the house work and managing the kids. I watched the baby while Paul took the middle child out to run errands. …