From hearing aids to cochlear implant

From hearing aids to cochlear implant is a guest blog by Kirsteen Allison. Kirsteen is a working mum in Scotland writing about her cochlear implant and experiences of deafness 2012/2013.

For the best experience, you can start to read from the beginning.

Blog: My cochlear implant 6 years on

It is now 6 years since I was implanted, and a lot has changed since then. I am older (wiser??) and my daughter is now 10 and as tall as me!

One year on

I can’t believe that just over a year ago I was getting my head drilled into! I’ve come so far since then, I can now hear the wind in the trees, I can enjoy music again, I can hear birds, I can hear familiar voices on a mobile phone (but strangely nothing on a landline) […]

No, my hearing loss isn’t ‘cured’!

I’m finding I’m having to remind people often of what I can and can’t hear because many people assume my hearing is now perfect or as some say ‘cured’! I’m hating being told I’m cured! Deafness can be difficult but its not a disease or something! I point out to people that conversation is much […]

Disappointment

My updates are less frequent now, sorry everyone, but that’s because I’ve been busy and also because my appointments at the cochlear implant centre are decreasing so I haven’t had much to report. I get check ups at eg 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months and my latest one was 6 months. My next one […]

Reintroducing a hearing aid

Happy new year to you all! It’s been a busy few weeks what with work, christmas etc so apologies for the lack of updates. At the end of November, my cochlear implant centre advised me to reintroduce a hearing aid into my non implanted ear. I wore it for a month before I had to […]

Year in review

This will probably be my last blog post of the year so I wanted to do a short year in review. First I wanted to show you my latest audiogram results, which more or less sums up how far I’ve come in just over 3 months since switch on. On this, you can see where […]

Happy Birthday to me…happy birthday to me…

Sorry for the lack of updates everyone, its been a super busy few weeks. I had a phased return to work following my operation and I’m now back full time. I’m in a different office so a slighter longer commute and less time to blog! Also it was my birthday so I was celebrating that. […]