April 2009
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By Sara on April 29, 2009
Surgery went fine. Everything fine. I just got home (8:30pm) – exactly 12 hours after they took me into the OR. Where’d my 12 hours go? Well, 3ish hours for surgery, 4ish hours to wake up enough to be able leave (did I tell you I spent 10+ hours in the car yesterday between work and driving to [...]
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By Sara on April 27, 2009
I don’t watch House, or much TV at all honestly, but apparently they had a patient receive a cochlear implant on the show tonight. I read a summary of it in Nabeel’s blog and just from reading that decided I should make a ‘that’s not how it works, folks’ post, just in case.
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By Sara on April 27, 2009
It’s been a lovely lovely spring the last few days. The tulips and flocks have been out. Betsie has been keeping the lawn mowed short. Even the baby white clover I planted for her to chew on is doing great. I just scattered it around by hand – we’ll find out soon if this was a bad idea or [...]
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By Sara on April 27, 2009
This is kind of other-worldly…. so much has changed in the last 15 years…. Processors are now the size of large hearing aids, and individual wires inside the ear have been replaced with tiny electrode pairs. On a related note, the Wikipedia article on CIs has a lot of info. TIME magazine – March 12, 1984 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921607,00.html — — — — — — - Success [...]
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By Sara on April 22, 2009
One week from now I’ll hopefully be done with surgery and on my way home if not already home. I won’t know what time to report on the 29th until the day before. Working backwards from there….. The night before surgery, Don and I will drive down to Chapel Hill and take up residence in the lovely [...]
Posted in Activities, Hearing, Music, Work
| Tagged busy, cochlear implant, PE Exam, Work
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By Flickrpost on April 17, 2009
Lilacs Originally uploaded by sajego Growing up in upstate New York one of the surest signs of spring was the lilacs blooming. Rochester even has a festival celebrating lilacs (http://www.lilacfestival.com/) but it won’t start until the 2nd week of May. Here in Virginia there are so many spring flowers. In March we had daffodiles and [...]
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By Sara on April 17, 2009
Email sent out a few weeks ago at work: Please remember that you may only wear jeans on Fridays if you make a donation to the United Way. Friday is not a casual day. Employees are permitted to wear jeans on Fridays strictly as a fund raiser for the United Way. If you do not want to [...]
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| Tagged friday, jeans, united way, Work
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By Flickrpost on April 15, 2009
Spot the ASL interpreterOriginally uploaded by sajego This is only the second band event I’ve been to at Monticello (Thomas Jefferson’s house here in Charlottesville) but both times so far they have had a sign language interpreter for the event. This doesn’t help me much since I’m seated in the band and can’t see much [...]
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By Sara on April 8, 2009
Monday was my 2nd visit to UNC Chapel Hill. Everyone down there was highly anticipating that night’s Basketball game (not something I was following). Sunday afternoon Don and I drove down and went to the house of my older cousin and his wife. My older cousins and I haven’t had a lot of opportunity to be [...]
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| Tagged CI, cochlear implant, EAS, Med-El, UNC
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By Sara on April 7, 2009
When I took the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam in October 2007 I requested special accommodations. I didn’t know if I would need them, but figured since the process to request them was in place I might as well try it. What did I ask for? I asked to sit in the front row so [...]
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