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Two Years After Caroline's Last Deaf Day
January 28, 2018 was Caroline's last deaf day. Two years later - to the day - Caroline and Andreas catch up on the long podcast-free period (most of 2019): Caroline ta...
One Colourful Evening...
In November 2018, Caroline and Andreas received a Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation "Courage Award," recognizing extraordinary efforts in approaching Carolin...
Celebration Time
It's Celebration time. It's about time. In mid-February Caroline and Andreas traveled to Nashville to speak and take in Cochlear Celebration. It was all go go go and r...
S2 E5: The Activation Episode
There are few times in life when the line between yesterday and today changes everything. January 28, 2018 was Caroline's last deaf day. The Activation Episod...
Season 2, Episode 4: WE HAVE NEW BOOMS!*
Caroline turns the tables and sits on the other side of the table as she asks Andreas about his hearing. Which is, in a word, unusual. It's another twist in a love...
Season 2, Episode 3: The Mirror Episode
After a hectic Christmas holidays with family and friends, Caroline and Andreas settle back into whatever routine they can manage. In the spirit of Auld Lang Syne, the...
Surgery Day +365
On December 12, 2018 Caroline and Andreas tried to have a normal morning. You know, do all the normal things like pack up a day bag, take a change of clothes, and hold...
Season 2: Episode 1 - Sorry, I Broke the Podcast.
My Beautiful Cyborg returns. Finally. Caroline begins with an apology: "I broke the podcast!" What the heck happened? A deaf woman regained her hearing - that's the op...
Episode 16: Thank you / The World Hearing Day
March 3 is World Hearing Day. And 2018 was a very special World Hearing Day for Caroline for two reasons. First, Caroline can hear because she received a cochlear impl...
Episode 13 - Take a Deep Breath
It's been just three weeks since Caroline could, very suddenly, hear again. Caroline's activation and hearing rehab were astonishingly fast. Now it's time to play catc...
Episode 12 - Welcome to the Roller Coaster
A cochlear implant is a technical wonder, but it's also an existential feast. "I couldn't hear, and then I could." Caroline's Cochlear Kanso has been activated for one...
E11 - THE BEGINNING OF THE REST OF MY LIFE
In May 2017, Caroline was referred to be evaluated for a cochlear implant. Before the end of summer she was an official candidate. On December 12 a neurotology surgica...
E10 - A Day of Days
Today is activation day. If you're deaf, and then someone says "January 29 is the day you'll have access to a lot more sound again," yeah, that's a day of days. Andrea...
E9 - The Complete Post-Surgery Guide on How to Stifle a Sneeze
This episode is a long-delayed follow-up to the recovery episode, but Caroline needed a little break (the Recovery episode really tuckered her out). But first, Carolin...
E8 - The Recovery
Episode 8 is called "The Recovery," but it starts with gratitude. It's been a week since Caroline had a cochlear implant surgically installed into her right ear. After...
E7 - My Beautiful Cyborg
It's December 12: surgery day. After a lifetime of declining hearing, Caroline is going to receive a CI532 cochlear implant. We have a talk in car on the way to the ho...
E6 - 'Twas the Night Before Surgery...
With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore... 'Twas the night before surgery, and all through the house, the crying and fretting was stressing the spouse. There aren't a...
E5 - The Ironic Episode
So there we were, recording an episode on the reliability of technology, especially when it's installed in your body, and the studio computer died. Well, it didn't die...
S1 E4 - What if "Hearing-Caroline" is awful?!
After months of appointments, tests, reading, more reaching, discussion, counseling, and a final bit of consultation, Caroline is less than two weeks from her implant ...
E3 - A Fly On The Wall
This year is a special year. This year, Christmas and cochlear implant season go hand in hand. That means schedules are chaotic and time is limited. Rather than a norm...
E2 - Save the Date
Caroline has had a hectic couple of weeks. Now that she's an official candidate for a cochlear implant, she told family and friends. Episode 1 delivered the news, Epis...
E1 - Meet My Beautiful Cyborg
Caroline is hard of hearing. To be more accurate, without hearing aids, Caroline is deaf. After a lifetime of degenerative hearing loss, hearing aids won’t do the tric...
Teaser: My Beautiful Cyborg
Caroline has been losing her hearing since her teens. Hearing aids aren't powerful enough. It's time to become a cyborg. https://episodes.seriouslysimplepodcasting.co...