Sudden Silence

The CI Assessment
Sudden Silence For some reason, I’m nervous this time. I guess it’s because I really don’t know what to expect from a CI evaluation. I’m not sure who will be there, what they’ll ask, what tests they’ll do. Will a psychologist evaluate me? How long will the hearing tests be? I’ve always hated hearing [...]
Culture Sun, May 11 2008 · hide this blog

Gimme one reason
Sudden Silence I'm working on a long post about my CI evaluation (in short: good news, I qualify!) but in the meantime...if anyone has any insights, good or bad, to share about the CI company they went with, factors they wish they had considered or what has turned out to be the most important thing to [...]
Tech Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

Attitude
Sudden Silence “Is this it?”, I wonder, “Have I just accepted it now? I’m not going to freak out, break down, be incapacitated with grief?” I go through each day and do what I normally did. Nothing has changed, except I can’t hear. I still make dinner, do dishes, watch TV, joke with my family. Am [...]
Language Tech Wed, May 07 2008 · hide this blog

Enjoy the silence
Sudden Silence Oooh. I've just discovered my first benefit to being deaf. I opened a can of refrigerator biscuits last night and for the first time, I didn't shriek in horror when it popped open! I did feel the vibration and thought that might scare me just as much, but apparently without that loud POP as [...]
Tue, May 06 2008 · hide this blog

Making Life Easier
Sudden Silence So, you’ve just recently lost your hearing as an adult who’s spent all their time in a hearing world. Now what? As I mentioned before, nobody came forth with a list of sources for me when I visited the doctor. It’s really been up to me to do the research and found out what [...]
Tech Sun, May 04 2008 · hide this blog

Here we go again
Sudden Silence I’m still at the stage where I have to relive my deafness every morning.  It’s slowly starting to get easier but I still have that initial shock when I put my hearing aids in and everything still sounds the same. The first night that I lost all of my hearing, I was really devastated and still [...]
Mon, Apr 28 2008 · hide this blog

Caption Observations
Sudden Silence If you’re ever really curious to know what it’s like for a deaf person to watch TV, it’s easy to experience:  turn the captioning on and mute the volume.  It really is a totally different experience when you only have the captions to rely on! I’ve been using captions on the TV since they were readily [...]
Mon, Apr 28 2008 · hide this blog

Talking with my hands
Sudden Silence It’s ironic, considering that I’ve been hard of hearing basically my whole life, but I’ve always wanted to know sign language. I think it’s amazing and expressive and just … wonderful. If there had been sign language classes in my high school, I would’ve taken them in a heartbeat! But I’ve never learned. The [...]
Mon, Apr 28 2008 · hide this blog

Avert your eyes
Sudden Silence I just realized something tonight when we were watching two of our favorite medical dramas, Grey's Anatomy and ER: I have to watch the surgery scenes! Aaagh! Normally I avert my eyes during anything bloody/gory/graphic because I'm a wuss. It sounds a little strange but usually I watch the TV reflection in our [...]
Mon, Apr 28 2008 · hide this blog