Coming to my senses : one woman's cochlear implant journey

Deaf at age six, Blatchford was educated with speech lessons, speech reading, and hearing aids.

At the age of 62 she underwent a cochlear implantation.

In this memoir she describes living with a cochlear implant, including her realization that amplification and comprehension are not the same.

Gradually the soup of sound she heard at first gave way to a selective hearing of sentences.

When asked by other deaf people if they should receive an implant, she cautions that it is an individual decision.