{"id":76,"date":"2010-01-21T22:40:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/01\/21\/switch-on-day-three\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T22:41:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:41:47","slug":"switch-on-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/01\/21\/switch-on-day-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch On: Day Three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Fourth day since Day Zero and I will be honest. I haven\u2019t worn it much today.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4057\/4293290781_f1969d15ef.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a bit of a problem, it keeps cutting out on me. It\u2019s off more than on. I am very confused, the distortion alone is hard enough to bear, but how can I adjust and adapt and learn to hear if it keeps switching on and off?<\/p>\n<p>I have an appointment tomorrow. I really really really want this to work for me, with ALL of my heart. I will be frank about the problems I\u2019m having, I will be honest, I will ask for answers to my questions. I will walk away with my positivity reinstored.<\/p>\n<p>I honestly believe in the Cochlear Implant. I have utmost faith in the technology. I have seen it work for far too many people not to.<\/p>\n<p>Although I do feel that perhaps, there isn\u2019t enough information around \u2013 to tell people just how hard it is at first \u2013 in particular for those who wore a hearing aid in that ear once upon a time. The blogs I have read, the articles I\u2019ve scoured through, the websites I have absorbed, there is not a lot out there that warns you that for <em>some<\/em> people, the first few days, even weeks \u2013 are absolutely AWFUL. I am very glad that for many people, within days they notice a difference, within a week, they are talking on the telephone. But for some people \u2013 it takes a lot longer. I have a feeling, I may be one of the people that it takes time for. <\/p>\n<p>BUT\u2026 it\u2019ll be worth it in the end. Oh yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Fourth day since Day Zero and I will be honest. I haven\u2019t worn it much today. There seems to be a bit of a problem, it keeps cutting out on me. It\u2019s off more than on. I am very confused, the distortion alone is hard enough to bear, but how can I adjust [&hellip;]<\/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\/76"}],"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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thedeafone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}