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    • Day Two

      Day Two

      Cochlear Journey Day 2: I only slept for about 3 hours at a time all night, would sit up, get my bearings and then go…

    • New Beginning

      New Beginning

      And here we are…Star Wars Episode X – the Arrival of FrankenLeia. LOL I will defeat the Sith…as soon as I am no longer dizzy. I…

    • Check In

      Check In

      I’m more nervous now than I was before. I didn’t sleep well last night because I was so anxious—first about the surgery, and then about…

    • The Night Before Surgery

      The Night Before Surgery

      The night before surgery was strange. After weeks of appointments, scans, research and second-guessing myself, there was nothing left to decide. I had chosen the…

    • Why I Chose Med-El

      Why I Chose Med-El

      Once I decided to move forward with a cochlear implant, I had another major decision to make: Which one? In the United States, there are…

    • Reach

      Reach

      Over the past few weeks, I’ve researched everything I could in preparation for my cochlear implant surgery on July 2nd. I compared manufacturers. I read…

    • The Gradual Decline

      When I was younger, my speech-recognition scores were approximately 80 percent in my left ear and 90 percent in my right. With my hearing aids,…

    • Little Did I Know…

      Little Did I Know…

      I have apparently always been demanding, which is not surprising in the least bit. One of my childhood audiology reports notes that I “insisted” on…

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