I've been all tied up with many college work, especially trying to finish my photography assignment before the deadline last Friday! But I believe that I'm coping well in college, just the matter of being given so much work to do that I'm starting to lose my free time. I don't mind though, just as long as I enjoy doing work in the subjects, as obviously I love art and photography. I need to make a start in revising for Business exam coming up in January as I think I'm not ready for it right now!
I was just having deep thoughts about my second cochlear implant, because I noticed recently that I'm not entirely sure if I'm improving much so far. It feels the exactly same since probably March or so. This quite frustrates me because I was really hoping to improve my hearing more by now, but it seems it is really taking its time. Also, I seem to be getting headaches, it feels different from at the beginning because that was like it was attacking your head endlessly, but this time, these headaches are like so tense and pumping through really hard. This still occurs with my old implant alone, which is quite unusual to me because I never get headaches from the old implant. I'm not really sure if I made the right choice to getting second implant as these problems are getting to me that I'm slightly regretting it. But I'm still happy because my hearing definitely improved, it's just not really progressing much at all at the moment. I wonder if it's just normal, or it's because of the small number of electrodes I have, or it's something else.
I don't have my routine programming until next year in July, I thought I heard them say six months which would be end of this year where I had my switch-on. But right now, I'm just too busy to do something about it as college is really making me busy.
TIP: If you get headaches, it's always best to let your cochlear implant centre know, so they can find out how the implant is causing you headaches and try to help you as much as they can!
