Trading Klondikes For Health

Next week I go for a mapping on my working cochlear. I want to try something different to get my comprehension on the phone in particular up a notch. In two weeks I will have Advanced Bionics (the manufacturer of my CI) and my audiologist run a few tests. They are actually going to do some electrophysiological measures with my cochlear implant.

Not sure what all that means, I just know that I have a right side implant that tugs at my face when it hears sound. So something is going on with the electrical impulses. Just need some sound.

It would be cool if we can figure it out and get it working. I would give a Klondike Bar to be bilateral at this point. It has been a bit of a frustration. So test away my good people, lets see if we can introduce sound to my right side. The left brain has been hogging it all.

Also in two weeks time I get my regular seminar for "Occulo-motor re-education" Or "How to even think about being considered for Cirque du Soleil with no balance in the inner ear, so use the eyes my friend"
This Physio involves meeting every couple of weeks and working on tricking the brain to think that things are stable. You see, when my brain seeks out information on "stability" it asks the inner ear (one of the three guidance systems, and the most relied on). But my inner ear system is broken. So the brain then "freaks" a bit as it goes to the eyes (the number 2 system) for help on balance. The eyes send a signal to the brain that ends up being "bouncy" or "shaky" because the eyes are not used to being the main balance system. So this therapy helps "re-train" the occulo motors.

Janet improves daily, and quite possible could come home in a few days. CT scan done today to confirm tumor is down where it belongs.
She has been in the wonderful care of the world renowned Princess Margaret.
Smart specialists, nice people, but she is now over three weeks in there. Time to come home!

Not her longest stay by any means. Her usual fall visits are between 8 and 10 weeks, so we caught a break I guess. She also usually arrives home sporting a Hickman line, that she keeps well into the new year. It has been a regular fall/winter fashion piece the past few years.
This year she will be sporting two new pieces for the fall/winter season; A PIC line, and a Trach. I told her all the babes on all the runways will be copying her look! Not sure how long the PIC line stays, the Trach I think will be around for a couple of months.

The trach will cause the most commotion, as health care folks will have to come every 2 days to suction it out! Like we really don't I need more health care workers in our life these days. All three of us would love to settle into a world that seems relatively normal. you know work, dinner, television, bed, get up and do it again. But we seem to live in the world of Health Care. A world that involves medical staff, medical buildings, and lots time spent and travel to and fro to seek the good advice and attention of the aforementioned.

Janet will go on a regime of Atra (a drug that is really mega/mega/mega doses of vitamin A. Enough to make your head spin) and Volproaic Acid (not sure what this does, but a chemo that she has had before, and they will try again). This is what the good Oncologist recommends to fight Leukemia. With Atra at $4700 for a twenty day supply, we thank the Gods of Ontario Government Health Insurance.

So with the good willing and if the crick don't rise, next week could be a diamond week. We have had far too many granite weeks this past year. As I say, some weeks are diamond and some are stone. The rocks have been pilling up around here lately.

The nice weather we had all week is pulling out, and rain with cold settling in for a long November.

Matters not!

The forecast is for health, better health, some bilateral hearing on the horizon.
But most important the future has family together again!

It has been a while!

I better run off and clean before "Mom" gets home and sees the empty Klondike Bar boxes all over the house.

I'll blame the boy of course.
Hee hee!

Warmest,

David