Laura's journey with mitochondiral disease: Convid 19

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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.

30 July 2020

Convid 19

The country uk has been on lockdown for 3 months n only now the prime minister has told us to wear a mask in shops and hospitals and carehomes for safety

I have not left my house other than to go in the garden for 3 months it hasnt been too bad i kępt busy doing cross stitching and knitting n now the isolation is coming to abd end on 1st August n I’m looking forward to my 35th birthday!