Fun with Fireworks + Deafness - a photo essay/stuff about me!

Morning! Well, afternoon really. As per last week, here are some snaps from my Blackberry. This week's theme is `fireworks`. Only a few pics this week - fireworks are kind of hard to take decent pics of y'know - what with them moving around and all. The reason I have chosen fireworks is because I have had good news relating to my hearing loss/deafness....but you'll have to get to the end of this post to see what it is. Enjoy the pics:

 Next week's photo essay is "Stuff I saw on my lunch break", which seeing as I work in the City of London means I should get some good pics!

Right, the good news, here are the facts you *need* to know, in handy bullet points:

• I wear hearing aids in both ears. This is cause my 'ossicles' (cool name huh), the 3 teeny tiny bones in my middle ear don't work. You can read more about this here
• I have worn hearing aids since I can remember, so from around the age of 3.
• My hearing loss is hereditary (god that's hard to spell) although only one of the bones in my mum's ears are messed up. We both have the hearing loss because...
• My grandmother had rubella when she was pregnant with mum
• My mum had an operation to 'fix' her hearing when she was 16. 
• My operation wasn't possible because of all 3 bones not working :-(
• I don't make a big deal about my hearing loss + most people don't know when they meet me until I tell them.
• You can't tell I'm deaf from my speech
• The consultant told me today that actually my hearing loss is moderate-to-severe. Which surprised me. So perhaps asking for stuff is no bad thing. 
• I worry that I'm a pain, asking for stuff, like subtitles, louder volume, people to face me. Stupid huh!

So the good news is.....the consultant I saw today wants me to see the specialist doctor-y type people to see if things have changed re: operation. Wow. Crumbs. Yikes etc etc. Not getting hopes up but still. Amazing news no less! I can't imagine what it would be like to er, *hear* normally I guess. Exciting all the same. Just wanted to share with you all.

Happy afternoon!

SG

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