by Rebecca J on 2013-10-10
My one-year cochlear implant anniversary sneaked up on me. But itʼs today. One year ago today, my right ear was implanted, and my world changed forever.
Itʼs easy for me now to take for granted that my hearing is better, because hasnʼt it always been like this? No, it certainly hasnʼt, as anyone who has known me for a long time can tell you. But my ears and my brain are working so well together now that Iʼm forgetting that they used to be largely at odds (and my ears always won, leaving my brain to wonder what in the world to do with those dinky little signals that it was getting once in a while). Iʼm grateful that Iʼve been given a second chance, so to speak.
A few weeks ago, I heard Molly singing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” in our living room, while I was working on dinner in the kitchen. I commented to William that she had been singing that song over and over all day long, and he said, “Iʼm impressed that you can even hear her singing at all.” Itʼs moments like those that make me pause to reflect for just a moment about the miracle thatʼs been wrought.
It only gets better from here. Canʼt wait!
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