No masking this...
The impact of COVID-19 on hearing loss and strategies to help.
Nine month review
Wearing the implant has now become normal for me. I put it on at the start of the day and wear it all day apart from bath, shower and...
Trying out the accessories!
I use a Cochlear Kanso - which is the Cochlear ' off-the-ear' device. It's the same technology as the Cochlear N6 but just packaged up a...
How's everything looking?
So a few people have asked about the practicalities of the implant. How it looks and feels when I'm wearing it. The implant is attached...
Three month review!
It's actually a bit more than three months but I've been fiddling around with the setting of my 'maps' so my three month post switch on...
A day without my implant
It's been a while since I've posted. In my last post I was trying to do some more implant only listening without my hearing aid. I find...
Six weeks later - a running update
It's been six weeks since my cochlear implant was switched on and I'm trying to wear it for all activities now. I decided to go running...
4 weeks after 'switch-on' Party time!
It's been a busy week! At the weekend I attended my first proper social 'outing' since the switch-on. It was a close friend's birthday...
3 weeks post 'switch-on'. Starter for ten...
It's now been three weeks since switch on and progress is slowing a little. In the first week or so you make a huge amount of progress...
13 days post switch on... 'Country Road...Take me Home...!'
I had a bit of a breakthrough today. I was at work and experimented streaming through my minimic (a piece of equipment that allows me to...
