Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
After two decades of deafness, Sophie Woolley's life was transformed after an implant: she was back in the 'hearing gang'. So why did she feel so angry?
My teenage sister Hannah was opening her heart to me, and I was listening carefully and nervously. We barely knew each other. My husband cleared the plates from dinner and left us to it. Hannah said: "It's so good to be able to talk to you about all this! We could never talk like this before, could we?"
I had had similar exchanges with relatives and friends over the past six months. "It's like having a new daughter," my dad laughed, after our first "normal" phone call in 10 years. I felt unsettled and weirdly guilty: I was finding this explosion of human intimacy rather disturbing.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/08/i-can-hear-after-20-years-being-deaf
My teenage sister Hannah was opening her heart to me, and I was listening carefully and nervously. We barely knew each other. My husband cleared the plates from dinner and left us to it. Hannah said: "It's so good to be able to talk to you about all this! We could never talk like this before, could we?"
I had had similar exchanges with relatives and friends over the past six months. "It's like having a new daughter," my dad laughed, after our first "normal" phone call in 10 years. I felt unsettled and weirdly guilty: I was finding this explosion of human intimacy rather disturbing.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/08/i-can-hear-after-20-years-being-deaf