Planning=anxiety

Hey all!

The surgery date is set August 12th! I was hoping for sooner to guarantee that I could start back to school on time but on the 12th might be cutting it close. It just may be too overwhelming to re-train my brain to hear in a short amount of time. People have told me that they have great success and can return to some form of normalcy within days of the surgery. Now, I'll be deaf for the recovery period (2-4 weeks) and then I get "switched on" thats where I get completely hooked up- and start re-learning to hear. They say people sound a lot like "mickey mouse" or some mechanical voice, but given time it gets better. I've been told I won't even need to lip read anymore... it's really up to me to give that up though, it's a GREAT evesdropping tool ;)

I've been having a lot of "ups and downs' and of course this all coincides with buying a new house, planning a wedding, GOING THROUGH with the wedding ;) starting a new summer job, then the appointments leading up to the wedding... it's pretty ridiculous- Josh is marrying into my new medical bills- lucky him! So the anxiety is really surrounding the surgery, not the wedding- that will all fall into place even if a lot of people ask me lots of questions that I don't care to answer more than once- that might be the teacher in me. Believe it or not, I've found I have little patience apparently! :) Who'da' thunk it?!

Anyway, that is a little emotional update for you all... :) it's a crazy experience to say the least I'm sure many of you have had made decisions similar to this- it's weird to think that at 24 I need a CI, or hearing aids in general? Isn't hearing loss for "old people?" just kidding. but really that thought has crossed my mind SEVERAL times throughout the years!

The next post will be more about the surgery for those of you who don't know much about it.