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


23 August 2021

Diabetes type 2

Over the last few years drs have been confused why my blood sugars are up but didn’t have diabetes! I was a  mystery one dr said my blood sugars was were high I should be sick!! But this year. Things caught up and I was finally diagnosed with diabetes type 2 I wasn’t really surprised with my blood sugars being high  but my dad was on the ball because he has diabetes type 2 as well so he was  doing pricks in my thumbs and testing my blood sugars  and making sure I’m ok,  apparently it’s common to get mito diabetes’s type 2  in my case the nutrition drinks I was drinking were high in sugar so I’ve been cut down to 2 a day and an extra pill in the mito cocktail of pills. I’ve become an expert at pill swallowing haha