{"id":52,"date":"2009-12-09T22:15:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/i-came-home-with-a-box\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:15:18","slug":"i-came-home-with-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/i-came-home-with-a-box\/","title":{"rendered":"I came home with a box!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you guess what kind of box?<\/p>\n

This one to be precise:<\/p>\n

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You know what that means don\u2019t you? It\u2019s confirmed. It\u2019s definitely happening. I am having a Cochlear Implant!<\/p>\n

Surgery date is on 22nd December 2009. Just before Christmas so although I might have a sore head for different reasons this year, at least there will be plenty of people off work to give me a hand with the children and general day to day stuff. <\/p>\n

The appointment went really nice. The consultant and his team are fantastic, I cannot fault them at all. I\u2019m absolutely thrilled that it\u2019s going to happen, definitely. But I\u2019m also very nervous, apprehensive and scared too. It\u2019s still a big operation, I\u2019ve never had one before. It\u2019ll mean being away from my children for 2 whole nights, staying in a strange hospital 25 miles from home. It\u2019ll also be the start of a new journey. I\u2019m amazed that it\u2019s taken only 6 months since that first appointment to visit my GP to request for the referral and now we\u2019re here.<\/p>\n

I saw my scans on the computer. The consultant said that it was very clear, the sort of scan pictures that he\u2019ll distribute to show students \u2013 perhaps, in the words of my marvellous Mum who accompanied me on the day, I shall need to sign a model release form? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

My Vestibular Aqueduct is widened \u2013 we knew that. It\u2019s still nice to be told though, with a confidence as to why I am deaf. It\u2019s all fine in there, I had my pre-operation assessments, an injection and some swabs taken. Leaflets to pour over once I got home, and a box!<\/p>\n

Naturally, we had a \u201cbox opening ceremony\u201d (term courtesy of my lovely husband Andy) so would you like to see more?<\/p>\n

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An impressive piece of kit huh?<\/p>\n

I had loads of questions for the consultant. I had been rehearsing them in my head for days. But when it came to it, he was so clear in his explanation of everything that the questions just went. I felt very informed. He\u2019s going to need to shave off a little bit of hair behind my ear (gulp) and there will be an incision made behind my Left ear. That was the other thing \u2013 he is happy to do my bad ear! This is fabulous news to me, I feel safe knowing that I have nothing to lose. I feel safe knowing that after the operation, in the meantime until the switch on, I can still use my hearing aid in the Right ear as normal.<\/p>\n

So, that\u2019s it for now! No doubt I\u2019ll be posting soon, blogging about what\u2019s to come! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you guess what kind of box? This one to be precise: You know what that means don\u2019t you? It\u2019s confirmed. It\u2019s definitely happening. I am having a Cochlear Implant! Surgery date is on 22nd December 2009. Just before Christmas so although I might have a sore head for different reasons this year, at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}