Comments on: Knowing me? Knowing you.

By: BryonyParkes

BryonyParkes — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:01:34 +0000

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

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:45:18 +0000

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!!!

By: Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:07:20 +0000

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

By: Vicbic

Vicbic — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:07:41 +0000

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)

By: Flutegirl

Flutegirl — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:19:40 +0000

Hi B, Good luck with returning to work. I hope everything else is going OK – thinking of you. XX

By: Rach

Rach — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:50:55 +0000

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.

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:53:56 +0000

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.

By: BryonyParkes

BryonyParkes — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:41:34 +0000

Lisa-will write tomorrow about appointment xx

By: BryonyParkes

BryonyParkes — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:40:40 +0000

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

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:34:03 +0000

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….