Generally, l feel that 2017 was a shitty year but I also believe that even in the shittiest of times there are good things that happen and if we keep our eyes on the good stuff then we won’t get bogged down in all of the shittiness.
getting my second implant
I have to admit that only hearing on one side of my head was uber annoying. I was doing well so I got approved for a second implant. Let me back up a minute here. I had no idea that only hearing one side was annoying till I got the second implant. I mean I was born and raised deaf so what did I know? Then I got TWO cochlear ear implants and after I got used t the second one my life was forever changed. The implant is…I want to say it is like hearing aids on steroids but it is waaaayyyyyy better than any hearing aid I ever had and with my profoundly Deaf ears I have always had the best hearing aids and I couldn’t hear shit. Then the technology jumped all the way to Mars on the Cochlear ear Implants and deaf people everywhere were rushing to get their own CI me included. I will be honest surgery hurt like a mofo but the ability to HEAR and to UNDERSTAND is beyond priceless.
understanding audiobooks and podcasts
This year I realized I could understand audiobook s and podcasts. With a hearing aid, the sound is still going through the damaged parts of the ear so your brain is only getting bits and pieces of the sound and you cant HEAR stuff but you can’t make heads or tails out of it. Like you can hear someone talking u can see their mouth moving but….you cant tell what they are saying. With the implant, it bypasses the damaged cochlear and your brain is getting all the information and after you learn to hear you can actually understand speech!! Seriously, my mind was BLOWN when I realized I could understand speech.
losing 50 pounds
That is right this is the year that to combat my depression I dragged my ass to the gym and started working out. Then I started eating better then I went full on paleo and it was an upward spiral out of the dark abyss of depression. I did it cause I wanted to beat the depression but I also needed up losing 50 pounds and people actually noticed and I fit into smaller clothes and it was all good.
getting my kitten Marbles
I got him off of my social worker when another one of her clients got fed up with him. He was supposed to be a therapy cat but someone forgot to tell Marbles that. I still love him and he is my forever cat.
Getting my mom to help me unfuck my habitat
I will admit my apartment was a disaster and after reading Reading People I got a suspicion that I may be a highly sensitive individual and the mess bugged the hell out of me. Yet when I started to clean I would get so overwhelmed that I would literally be frozen in place of where to start and what to do. So it got worse and worse until I finally swallowed my pride and asked my mom ( a master cleaner) to help me. She almost shit her pants when she saw my apartment but she and I will admit she did the bulk of the work as I was all like oh my god I cant take iiiittttttt. She finally told me to just stay out of her way and she whipped my apartment, not shape. I am getting a cleaning lady for next year but I feel that now the apartment is in shape I can keep it like that with washing dishes every day and such.
