Six months with Number 2 [with results]

OK
Now it's six months since number two was implanted and coming up to two years for number one.
Maybe I should give them names but they can't be names which means this one is better than that one, must be equal.

May update

Swimming is on hold. Has been since implant #2, 17 February.

Balance and unsteadiness is shaping my world right now. I saw the cochDoc on Thursday who reiterated the state of my balance at the time of my BlindSac (September 2009) - bad, not much there. I'll have a new balance test soon.

I saw the NeuroPhys at StVincents today, Monday 10 May - there are some interesting exercises to try including Tai Chi. I hope there's a Leichhardt group. Where have all the hippies gone?!

Still can't drive but I'm exploring the wonderful world of SydneyBuses and CityRail.

Perforated eardrum again and still getting over an elongated cold/flu. Weak.


- iP

Switch-on #2

Well it's taken me seven years to get it together but here is the movie, as put together, for the switch-on from March 2010. My second implant.

One word

Dizzy


- iP

After the op

Here's a pic taken in the Recovery Ward. Still alive, head spinning slightly. Throat very dry from local anaesthetic and still on a drip, saline. Had a little nose-bleed probably from the tube they pushed down there.

Good thing I did all that swimming - given me a bit of strength against the surgical onslaught I think.







Light on not many home

Do this side 



At home, three weeks 'til switch-on
Ahhhh there's the switch now