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Say what?
Conversation between me and Eric this morning: Me: What kind of cake do you want? (Side note: His 18th birthday is this coming Tuesday) Eric: The cake is a lie. Me: The cake is alive? Eric: No…Portal....
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Falling
So, I fell down the stairs yesterday. Not a “head over heels somersault” kind of fall, more like a “feet swept out from under, slam down on your tailbone as you hit every step” kind of fall. Ouch. I...
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Being Bionic
I realized the other day that there’s a lot of things about having cochlear implants that I assume everyone just knows. When I first started this blog, I think my main ‘audience’ was other people with...
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Live and Learn
When I was in high school, I worked as a cashier at Venture for about a year and a half. Venture was a store similar to K-Mart, your basic discount department store in the Midwest. This was back in...
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Safe and Sound
We’ve been watching the news out of Oklahoma with heavy hearts – the images of the destruction caused by the tornado are almost impossible to comprehend. I can’t help imagining how scared the kids in...
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Re-post: Being Bionic
It’s been about two years since I first posted this, and I thought I’d re-post for those who haven’t seen it before: I realized the other day that there’s a lot of things about having cochlear implants...
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Well, I’ll Be
I’ve had my cochlear implants for … wow, almost eight years now (in August of 2016). In the beginning, there are all kinds of, as we call them, “CI moments” – things we’ve never heard before, or sounds...
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(Nearly) Ten Years of Deafness
I haven’t posted in forever so I’m sure nobody’s reading this anymore, but for the first time in ages I actually have cochlear implant-related news. In April 2018 it will be ten years since I went...
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When Things Come Into Focus
Every day I have a moment where I go from being deaf to actually hearing sound. It’s not when I first wake up – my cochlear implant processors are nowhere near my head at that time. Generally I get...
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