End of bus trip!

Cannot tell you how tiring it is to be busy every single day of the holidays! Well, I'm naturally busy this year, so I've not had a proper rest all to myself. Usually, I'd be all relaxed and energetic after about a week or two of plenty of rest... Unfortunately, that still hasn't happened as I'd been tied up being out of the house a lot. This includes the bus trip I'd been, with my deaf friend whom I had been friends for 8 years roughly. We've travelled to Northampton, Leicester and Peterborough in three days. The weather had been so kind to us but only that I didn't enjoy the heat because I'm not really a summer person... But it was a great trip, lots of conversations with my friend and great memories.. Especially when I accidently pressed the Stop button on the bus, but thankfully, some people had planned to get off on that stop! So far with my implants, it's still going well... I've discovered today that Laura introduced me to the personal inductive earhook headphones, and I remember trying one out when I went in the Listening Bus at a young age... I've sat next to her on the bus to listen to her music on iPod Touch, and I've forgotten how much they were so cool... Because I have two different cochlear implants, I thought it would be useful to get since I've only got two separate personal audio cables... Then I realised, I haven't got the 'T'option on my new implant yet! So, that will have to wait for a while until I can decide whether to get it or not. For now, it'll be music on my old implant to let the new implant get used to sounds first... If you wish to purchase the personal earhooks, they can be found on here:

http://www.connevans.co.uk/store/viewProduct.do?id=4371281

Tune Up Progress

So, I have finally been to my CI Centre for another tune up appointment. I can finally say that I have made a MASSIVE improvement with the second implant! I was truly happy to understand the fact they told me about my amazing progress. One of the listening assessments were to repeat the sentence you hear from the speaker, the statistics say that with my old implant alone, it was at 62%. With both my implants, I have been put to the test to see the difference, and guess the results? Just over 80%! I was actually surprised that I didn't think I would make a massive improvement within six months. And yes, it has now been half a year since the beginning of my bilateral implant life. They have noted me that I can return for another tune up in another six months, so it would be a whole year then. So far in my holiday, it has been pretty much busy, was out of the house for five days and luckily catching my friends on the way unexpectedly... But finally relieved to know that I have my whole week of nothing-ness so that means back to my own time of relaxation! I might have to make a start on my new college homework to avoid last minute homework! And also, I need my gaming hobby back!

Freedom!

Cannot tell you how happy I am finally finished my school life... Now is the time to concentrate on my two months of free of worries and that... I've still got plans coming up including my holiday in South England for a week to do some fun kayaking, cycling, rollerskating and going to the beach! Also, I've got few other plans such as my next tune up appointment on this Friday. It's been about 3 months since I last had my tune up appointment, so hopefully there's some good progress when I go there. To be honest, the new implant is quite frustrating now as it's just the same thing, high pitch noise when you turn it on, trying to get used to putting the magnet on your hair when you have thick hair, and the sounds aren't fully recognised yet. Also, it makes me very tired at the end of the day, so I have trouble with catching up with my sleep. Also, I still get headaches but that's rare now, and at the end of the day, you take it off and there's a feeling of relief to finally taking it off. So yes, it is quite frustrating. I've got to attend my introduction day tomorrow at the college, and I'm quite nervous as I do not know anyone who will be going there because it's outside of my town... So it is a little bit scary but I'm sure I'll be fine. On this Saturday, there will be an event of The Ear Foundation, their annual summer BBQ as it is on every year, and this time, I'll be attending there with deaf friend, so I'm looking forward to it! If you're going, then I shall see you there!