Category: Journey
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
