Off we go This is my last blog before my surgery next week. I think I’m more nervous about ‘afterwards’ than the actual surgery. I’m nervous that it ‘won’t work’, which sounds silly. I’m excited too. I can’t wait to start hearing things better, trying new things and things I haven’t been able to do for years – […]
Signing Classes – Again ‘British Sign Language (BSL) classes are not for deaf people! ‘ When email first became widely used I was told not to rattle off any message in anger or haste, for obvious reasons. I’ve considering the following for a few days and I’m still really angered, so here goes. I’ve mentioned how Sue was unable […]
Who Said That? More subtitles on TV please Sunday 29 July, to be exact (without sounding too much like Captain Kirk), I noticed a statement in The Telegraph magazine’s TV guide that “subtitles are not indicated in these listings, as almost all programmes on the major channels now have subtitles available”. I don’t know how long that has […]
Wordless Subtitles on TV, Olympic Opening Ceremony, Dame Evelyn Glennie We aren’t sports fans, but Sue wanted to catch the opening Olympic ceremonies and so switched over to Sky News for the midnight report on Friday to find no subtitles – not out of sync or misspelt, nothing! I can only imagine that Sky News (whose […]
Questions and Answers How did you choose which brand to have? I did a bit of research prior to my assessment dates and I felt that Cochlear was the most well known brand and had the best success rate. I did also consider Advanced Bionics as other recipients had said this was the most ‘water proof’. However, on […]
Unconnected Thoughts No bleeps for rude subtitles & encouragement to join a lipreading class I wasn’t paying much attention to TV the other night which was, as always, on with subs up. The sound was low but the bleeping out of ‘strong adult language’ made me look up to see what was causing such heated discussion. It was […]
My expectations for my implant Well, for the implant to be a ‘success’ for me, I would like to be able to enjoy music again. It’s hard to describe how it sounds now with my digital hearing aids. Sometimes its just loud booming with no lyrics, other times it can sound electronic. It’s been like that for years and I’ve […]
