31 Mar
Tomorrow I have an appointment with the CI clinic, to look at progress (which is none) and perhaps work out where I go from here (hopefully forward).
I have some plans to ask them to try. One idea is that as the distortion I get is primarily dominated by high pitched whispering hushes enveloping every sounds I am “hearing” I wondered about re-programming the processor to start from scratch and only activating the lower frequencies for the time being. Perhaps, this’ll make it that bit clearer, and then I’ll work my way up wards. I don’t know if I’m thinking along the right lines, but it’s better than no plan isn’t it! I’ll update you tomorrow!
In the meantime, I’ve noticed that I get quite a few reads on this blog now. Initially I started this blog up to get all the ramblings in my head, down on paper as it were, and share my thoughts and experiences with anyone who might stumble across this page. I love that there seem to be regulars now, and I’d love to get to know you a bit more.
I challenge you to comment on this page and tell me 3 things about yourself, which can be ANTHING plus how you came across this blog. It would also really help me as a blogger, to get to know the type of people (apart from the fact that you’re all lovely of course – I already know that!) that are interested in my, as far as I know, rambled dull witterings!
I’ll tell you three things about me to get started:
Your turn 🙂 x
21 Responses for "Knowing me? Knowing you."
If you don’t know at least three things about me, we’ve got problems, sweetheart!
🙂
I’ll play!
1) I have a mother who is also deaf which is why I read your blog.
2) I’m a stage manager and work with “famous people” for a living.
3) I never seem to get to bed before 2am!
How did I find your blog? I’m a friend (in that modern technological online sense) of your husband though we’ve never met. We discuss video games and other “geeky” stuff 🙂
Haha Dad, thank you! 🙂
Hi Luffer – thanks for replying! Good to meet you!
1) I came across this blog by seeing the link to it on one of your statutes, think it was the second or third one you’d done, and i was truly amazed seeing it all written down just how I feel in the big wide world (the first blog you wrote)
2) I am terrified of failure.
3) I am allergic to ice-cream! Whhaaaaa! 🙁
Loves xxx
I had no idea you were allergic to ice cream Han, I promise never to eat my Ben and Jerries in front of you!
Thank you for responding, sending love back xx
I saw a link to this blog on your facebook and wanted to know how the implant was going. I look every now and then to see if you’ve updated.
Three things about me: erm . . .
1. When I was 7 I fell down a rockery and cracked my head open and have a scar to this day across my forehead showing the damage.
2. I once climbed onto a supermarket conveyor belt and mooed like a cow.
3. I’m allergic to beeswax and some nail varnishes.
Zoe x
My turn!!
It’s hard to think three things about me!!!
1) I teach 30 children the recorder at the same time ( doing 3 classes in 2 hours, totalling around 90 children in one afternoon – no joke)
2) My favourite website is etsy.com – all things handmade!
3) I have to butter the toast when it’s really hot otherwise it wouldn’t taste so good
I love your blog Bryony, you have a lovely style of writing! we have the same hearing loss and condition as each other, and I come back to your blog every now and then hoping that you get better results with the CI. We did music at school, wasn’t it fun!
Meet soooooooooooooooooooooon! Good luck with returning to work.
ok lets see if I can find 3 things about me that you might not know
1) I am the 3rd consecutive generation R.C Parkes
2) I have a scar on my right hand between my thumb and finger about 30mm long, where I feel with a bottle of pop as a child and I had to go to the hospital to have it stiched
3) I used to be a “alter boy”
How did I find this blog, well to be honest , you told me about it
cheers
Ray ( your father in law)
sorry Bryony must remember to check my spelling the above word “feel” should be “fell”
Thank you Zoe, Ruth and Ray for your replies! Lovely reading them.
Ruth – I love etsy too. I have a fantastically talented friend who sells on there, under Chain of Daisies. Have a look!
1. I have a hard of hearing forum as welll as a blog of my own.
2. I’vebeen hoh since 2002
3. I still find my deafness frustrating.
I can’t remember now who told me, but omeone told me about your blog through mine, and I have been following it ever since.
I hope the appointment went well, B?
Found your blog after you posted a link on HPAD.
Three things you probably don’t know about me:
1 – When I was 6, I tried squeezing through the railings around the school playground, got my head stuck and had to be cut out by firemen.
2 – I would be a Goth if I could be bothered with the make-up and fit into the clothes; as it is, I just make do with the music!
3 – The first album I bought was Bryan Adams’ ‘Waking Up the Neighbours. I’m never gonna be cool….
Thanks Liz for replying. I must get round to coming over to your forum sometime!
Lisa, I am loving the firemen rescue… although can’t have been fun at the time!! X
Lisa-will write tomorrow about appointment xx
It would be great to see you at the forum, and I would look forward to any posts you may have or comments. I hope you will feel welcome. 🙂
I found your blog because you posted it online and I am a complete nosey parker, lol. I did a degree in linguistics at university, and I am still fascinated by the subject years later. Not only is it the study of language and speech, it is also the study of hearing and how it works and how hearing impairment affects language. There is a bit of biology thrown in there for good measure too, so I know what a Cochlea is, and I know what a vestibular aqueduct is, and I know how an ear works. So to have read about all of these things in a text book, and to read about someone actually writing about what has happened when bits of an ear have gone wrong, then it’s fascinating for a linguistic geek to see!
Did you know that the deaf community in Nicaragua was the proof that the human capacity for language is innate? There used to be no sign language in Nicaragua, and deaf and hard of hearing children didn’t attend school there. They did a sort of summer camp for deaf people, and they all started communicating, and using a rudimentary language of symbols (mainly nouns, not much grammar or tenses or verbs), then some young children came along, took the symbols, and naturally made it into a proper language, complete with verbs, tenses, grammar… at one point it was evolving so quickly that people could not document it. They had to then set about documenting the language to allow people to learn it who hadn’t grown up with it. 🙂
How cool is that?
Sorry, I’ll get off my geek soap box now. 😉
Things about me:
1. I am scared of insects that make a “bzzzz” sound (bees, wasps, flies etc). My tinnitus is such that when I have a bad cold, I often try to run away from my own ears.
2. I struggle to finish anything I start.
3. I would like to knit with my dog’s hair.
Hi B, Good luck with returning to work. I hope everything else is going OK – thinking of you. XX
I found your blog on twitter and on forum 🙂
So, 3 things about me?
1. I am interested in CI as my mum was a teacher of the deaf and she loved it. She was always worried for some of her students who were offered CI as they thought it was going to be the answer to all their issues, which isn’t always true.
2. I dream of moving to France. And I hope it can be a reality, even if only for a year or two.
3. I have a mega crush on Alex from Masterchef (blush)
I found your blog on google!
1. If I could meet one man from history it would be Winston Churchill
2. I’m entering the Siemens ‘find a face’ competition in hopes that I can spread the word about by experiences of being deaf and help others at Siemens.co.uk/hearing
3. I’ve been to Southampton but have never been Scunthorpe
I saw you “All for Nothing” post on Facebook and thought i’d read about why you felt you had to say sorry for the long, difficult journey of the CI. Like others have said, no need to apologise. In the kitchen cupboard i have a brand new digital hearing aid but i’m terrified of wearing it because all sounds will change. I wore it for about 30mins after the appointment and that was it, back in the box. Didn’t even give it a try. You Bryony, have gone through alot! It’s so hard having children but to not be happy with your hearing and care for your family it’s double hard and very frustrating. I totally get the car journey conversation with Alice. I have the same with Liam or Dylan…i’ll say “Sorry Liam i’m driving, you’ll have to wait till we get home”. I’ll try looking in the mirror and tell Liam to move his head a bit so i can ‘read’ him but he gets cross and turns away. I tell him he’s rude but, in fact he’s not. He just wants to chat and Mummy can’t understand him. The other day just as Nanny and David were leaving the house he proceeded to say “I didn’t want….” i butt in before he had a chance to finish thinking he was going to say his usual “I didn’t want Nanny and David to come” when he actually was going to say “I didn’t want Nanny and David to go”. Too late, i’d already had a go saying how rude he was, that they had taken him to the park and dinner.
Anyway…3 things about me:
1) I dip crisps into my creme egg!!
2) I keep wishing time would hurry up so that coping with four boys of the ages 5 and under would be easier to then feel terrible guilt that i should treasure each day. They’re only little once after all.
3) I once drove Lees company car into my old house!! I actually pushed the wall in, 30th Dec, cold and we couldn’t close the front door!! My Dad still doesn’t know!!!
Some fantastic replies since I last wrote on this comment thread, thank you!
Ruth – thanks for the luck, being back at work is going well!
Jackie – you get it 100%. I know every Deaf parent goes through the same things as I do, but to hear it being said by another really helps emphasise that. Love to you x
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