Welcome To My Blog...

This blog follows my journey of 2 different cochlear implants and my condition: Multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions I have started this blog 15 yrs too late but ill try my best to fit it all in! I have packed a lot of medical jargon into my life since I was 8.

There has been happiness and tears but I've come through it all with my family and my friends.I'm profoundly deaf as a result of a condition called Multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions or mitochondrial disease RRM2B as my professor Sir Dough Turnbull calls it! I have had since birth but I didn't find out this til I was 19. I have had 2 cochlear implants (at the age of 8 and then i lost the 1st cochlear implant in my right ear after 7 years due to a bad, accruing ear infection (which I couldnt fight off because of my mitochondrial condition) at the age of 15 and had a 2nd one implanted in my left ear that same year which I have now.

My Story


1 December 2008

1st Dec! Woo!

Wow It's the first of December already! I have made my blog very festive for you all! The current blog picture is from last year but I will soon have another few christmassy pictures to choose from this year soon! :0)
We are putting up our large fibre optic tree as I type! Lots of tinsel to decorate the house! Ooh and I opened my advent calender which is a Dr Who one with a dalek on the front! hehe I'm such a big kid!!!
I'm now going to write out my christmas cards!!
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
'Tis the season to be jolly
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

1 comment:

Lissa said...

Very Festive Laura!
I want to put my tree up but its not going up till wed next week, oh well!
I'm going to post some pictures on my blog as soon as i get my camera haha