Tonight was awesome - had an MAJOR CI moment. I was sitting outside on the back patio with my Dad and he was busy doing his net for the Nanaimo Amateur Radio Club - all the folks were checking in, and telling each other how their weekends were going - and I was sitting with Dad and understanding about 90% of what they were saying. It just blew me away! I mean - every time I understand a word, a sentence, I'm amazed that I really UNDERSTAND IT!
I get this silly goofy grin on my face...its just such an amazing thing to really be understanding and comprehending speech well enough to listen to a radio, talk on the phone, watch the TV without closed captioning.
I'm loving it!
About Me
- Dy
- I was diagnosed with sensorineural (nerve) deafness when I was 9 years old following a bout of bacterial meningitis. In the 24 years that followed, I learned to lipread, sign and wear hearing aids. However I always felt like a "fence straddler," neither fitting into the hearing world or the deaf world. I was approved for the clinical study for the Cochlear Nucleus System 4 (now called Freedom.) Implantation was January 24th 2005, and activated on April 12th 2005. And the experience continues...
Deaf Village
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