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Why bother with captions?
October 10th, 2011 by Curse of Silence
There is a wealth of movies available from the so-called talkies era. The fundamentals of movie production were established well before Al Jolson came along. Names such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Fritz Lang are true pioneers of the entertainment we now take virtually for Read More
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3 years
July 30th, 2011 by Curse of Silence
Today is the day I went deaf 3 years ago.Here’s a link to the original letterThat seems like a long time ago. I can’t say that it seems like forever because I can remember in some past life that I could hear. Hear music. Understand what people said. And understand what they were Read More
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Accessible Seinfeld
July 11th, 2011 by Curse of Silence
Since you went deaf have you missed being able to watch Seinfeld? Yes it’s on the secondary digital TV channels, but without captions. Now you can get Jerry Seinfeld’s wisdom via a new website http://accessibleseinfeld.com/ And Android users can download an app dedicated to the Read More
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100 Pushups
February 24th, 2011 by Curse of Silence
I need to build stamina and strength. The treatment has left me without energy and resilience. Even now 8.5 years after treatment. I have no balance and [I think] a bit more fitness might help me around that loss.Then I came across 100pushups [http://hundredpushups.com/]. I started with 5 – Read More
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Tinnitus is the result of the brain trying, but failing, to repair itself
January 18th, 2011 by Curse of Silence
An interesting article…ScienceDaily (Jan. 15, 2011) — “Tinnitus appears to be produced by an unfortunate confluence of structural and functional changes in the brain, say neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).”Tinnitus is the result of the brain Read More
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Swimming again
January 12th, 2011 by Curse of Silence
Now it’s been over a year but swimming has recommenced. The balance situation is even worse than last year, but strangely, swimming seems to be an exercise which helps me realise orientation in space. Considering that while I’m in the pool I dont have contact with anything fixed Read More
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Six months with Number 2 [with results]
September 4th, 2010 by Curse of Silence
OK Now it’s six months since number two was implanted and coming up to two years for number one. Maybe I should give them names but they can’t be names which means this one is better than that one, must be equal. Anyway six months in and I attended the checkup session with Monica on Read More
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May update
May 9th, 2010 by Curse of Silence
Swimming is on hold. Has been since implant #2, 17 February. Balance and unsteadiness is shaping my world right now. I saw the cochDoc on Thursday who reiterated the state of my balance at the time of my BlindSac (September 2009) – bad, not much there. I’ll have a new balance test Read More
