Life After Deaf
Book description
From a renowned media critic to a man with sudden and full hearing loss, Noel Holston ran the gauntlet of diagnoses, health insurance, and cochlear implant surgery. On a spring night in 2010, Noel Holston, a journalist, songwriter, and storyteller, went to bed with reasonably intact hearing. By dawn, it…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Life After Deaf as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Holston, a journalist and musician, went to bed one night and woke up the next morning virtually completely deaf.
His book is a fascinating account of how he clawed his way back to the hearing world through various misdiagnoses, a failed cochlear implant, and finally, after extensive rehabilitative therapy, a successful cochlear implant. I learned so much about the pros and cons and risks of cochlear implants, and how they have improved greatly over the years.
I loved the way he communicates his profound frustrations and fears through this painful process with a self-deprecating humor that makes the book, despite…
From Claudia's list on living with a severe hearing loss.
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