The Long Awaited Next Post!

Well, they say that good things come to those who wait, and, you’ve certainly been patient! When I said I’d update the blog back in January 2014, I didn’t expect to leave it for 18 months before re-commencing. The description of the blog states in large, friendly letters that it is a deafblind man’s journey with a cochlear implant… or something like that anyway. Well, if this blog is a journey, then it’s one with a sizable delay. It’s kind of like I let Southern Trains run my blog for me isn’t it?

“We apologise for the delay to the next blog, the reason for this is general laziness on the part of its author. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and normal service will now be resumed.”

To be serious for a moment, that is part of the reason. When I left the story, I was about to go under the knife for my second Cochlear Implant.  Despite the silence following this post, the blade didn’t slip and I’m still hear, now the proud wearer of 2 Advanced Bionics Cochlear Implants… and very swish they are to! I’ll be honest, another part of the reason for stopping writing was just that I was so busy hearing new things and enjoying life, that I didn’t really have the time or inclination to sit down and right about it! One of the things that made me begin blogging was as some kind of way of getting what was happening to me clear in my own head and I think that, subconsciously I felt I’d reached that point. There was also my usual lack of self-confidence kicking in and making me think that no-one would be interested in the ramblings of an overweight deafblind man living near London and writing terrible gags about under-performing train companies.

Now, though, you lucky people, you’ll be pleased to hear that I’m back, kind of like Michael Gove, just when you think I’ve vanished without trace, I pop up with a smug grin on my face and stab a colleague in the back. (For balance, I’ll insert a labour party joke in to a future blog to show that this blog is politically neutral).

I decided to pick up my pen again as it were because the more I’ve thought about it (and been nagged by my wife) I think the story wasn’t really finished. It’s also fair to say that, despite having and loving my implants for 2 years or so now, there are still many difficulties and frustrations that I want to explore/get off my chest/moan about! The final reason is that, I am quite enjoying this—it’s very cathartic. There aren’t many opportunities for someone to talk about themselves uninterrupted and I fully intend to seize the moment!

To bring the story up-to-date then, my second surgery for my left Cochlear Implant went well—although the experience with implant number 2 wasn’t as smooth as with implant number 1 which is something I’ll write about in a future post. I mentioned before that I was volunteering for Sense and I am now fortunate enough to be working part-time for them, again, more to follow on this.

Well, I think that’ll do it for my come-back post but don’t forget to follow me on my new twitter feed that I’ve set up for the blog (aren’t I the professional?) @DeafBlindBlog2.

Now I’ve started, I’m in it for the long haul, strap yourselves in and join me.