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


4 November 2009

Gloomy days...

The nights are drawing in now an getting dark early, its sooo gloomy, it makes me feel down! But I am much looking forward to seeing and hearing the fireworks and christmas is soon too.
I have been keeping myself busy doing tapestry and wasgijs (look it up if you arent aware of them)
I have made a group on Facebook for mitochondrial people to join but so far no one has joined...
i feel a bit lonley regarding the ocndition because I dont have anyone to talk about it with apart from the docs who dont have it but research it Id like to see how other people cope with it etc maybe I really am a rare gem.
I get a lot of cochlear implantees on the blog but no mitochondrials even if it was just one person, I would be happy because I'm not alone. There's not a lot of people out there with the same condition I have but if there is, I haven't found them yet! I'll keep trying anyway!

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