I've just finished reading a great book called "The Brain that Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge. It describes the adaptability of the human brain and cites research conducted by doctors all over the world to confirm such. It is amazing how, when faced with change (sudden disability), the brain adjusts to the changed situation to enable us to get on with life. Therefore, it stands to reason that I should, about now, aquire an amazing ability, bordering on genius, to compensate for my deafness.
Anyway, the book also includes interviews with the first doctors to invent the cochlear implant. When they realised that the brain could adapt and change they knew that a person could hear again using a "computer" to hear, instead of natural mechanisms. It's just a matter of training the brain to interpret the sounds coming from the cochlear implant instead of the real cochlear. That is what I am about to embark on now, training my brain to understand sounds that come from the implant. Still looking forward to the strike of genius................................
