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One Half-Deaf Trip Around the Sun

Earlier this week, the Grateful Dead released a massive retrospective box set entitled 30 Trips Around the Sun (or, to Deadheads…

Oct 14, 2015

Oct 14, 2015

The Rodney

10 Months In (or The Problem isn’t the Problem)

Tomorrow, it will have been ten months since I lost hearing in my right ear, since my life was turned upside down, since the last time I…

Aug 13, 2015

Aug 13, 2015

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Cochlear Chronicles, the next chapter…(or, wobbling along)

Writing this sometimes feels like a chore. getting these things out of my head is quite often the last thing I want to do, but I feel…

Jun 23, 2015

Cochlear Chronicles, the next chapter…(or, wobbling along)

Jun 23, 2015

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The Continuing Saga of a Cochlear Implant Recipient— Part Whatever (aka Farther Along, or, the…

SECTION ONE— THE PART WHERE I ASK YOU TO FORGIVE MY HUMANITY

Jun 11, 2015

Jun 11, 2015

The Rodney

What’s that Thing on Your Ear?

Quick entry just to share a video I made a few weeks ago about my cochlear implant.

May 6, 2015

May 6, 2015

The Rodney

Progress Update — 6 Weeks Bionic

Activation day was March 13, 2015, and the six-ish weeks that have passed have brought about considerable challenges with peaks of joy…

May 6, 2015

Progress Update — 6 Weeks Bionic

May 6, 2015

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The Bionic Life — Improvements Galore

I’ve got to admit, it’s getting better.

Mar 23, 2015

Mar 23, 2015

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The Bionic Life — 1 Week After Activation

Magnets, Charley Patton, Poets, Rivets, Bumper-to-bumper traffic, and a visit to the audiologist.

Mar 19, 2015

The Bionic Life — 1 Week After Activation

Mar 19, 2015

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Becoming Bionic — Activation Day

On Friday the 13th, I officially became a bionic man. Not quite six million dollars worth of bionic, but bionic nonetheless.

Mar 15, 2015

Mar 15, 2015

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Countdown to ‘A-Day’

2 days away from the activation of my cochlear implant, and I’m a little bit nervous and a whole lot excited.

Mar 11, 2015

Mar 11, 2015

The Rodney

The Rodney

Instructional technologist. guitarist. lyricist. culture jammer. ethnomusicologist. and all around nice guy.

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