First – a little bit about myself! I’m a woman! 36 years of age. I love rainbows and all things colourful and happy! I think I can bake a mean cake and my decorated cakes have always gone down well. I have done lots of travelling and would love to do more. Gibbs and DiNozzo on NCIS would be very welcome to interrogate me anytime! I love anything to do with art and crafty things – knitting, sewing, painting, woodworking etc. Too many skills to learn and not enough time and space (not to mention materials!).
Oh and there’s something else – my ears don’t work, they never have done and we’ve never known why! That hasn’t stopped me though – look at me now. Happily married with two boys, our own house in the Fens, got my GCSE’s and A-Levels and qualified as a Physiotherapist with Honours at University. I have got by with my hearing aids, lipreading and pretty good speech if I do say so myself, thanks to my hard working parents who have fought, encouraged and helped me in a number of ways. I went to a Primary school with a PHU (Partially Hearing Unit) where they had a teacher of the deaf to support me in mainstream school and then on to a boarding school for the deaf.
I am profoundly deaf which means I am VERY deaf!
There are a couple of main reasons why I wanted to do this blog – one was to explain to my family and friends what was happening with me as I feel it’s all too complicated to explain briefly and this allows everyone to get the same information. My other reason was because I feel that there is very little online about all the processes that I am going through – Tullio Phenomenon, Access to Work, considering a cochlear implant, being a deaf physiotherapist and all my other drama! So this blog may one day be of use to someone else perhaps searching for information just like I have been doing the last couple of months.
Rainbow Ears 