Wonderstruck
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012An old high school friend recently recommended reading Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick, author of the Caldecott Medal Winner and now movie The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Hugo is one of the most creatively written/illustrated books I’ve read, not to mention among my top favorite classroom library books from when I taught third grade, so I [...]
Hearing Update
Thursday, December 30th, 2010As many of you know, I have late-onset progressive bilateral sensori-neural hearing loss that began around my 21st birthday. I discuss my hearing loss more in my previous post A Chance Encounter and a Glimmer of Hope (not to burst your bubble by ruining the ending before you even begin reading, but the Wobenzym didn’t [...]
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sunday, February 28th, 2010I just wanted to write a quick thank you to everyone who responded to my last post about my daughter Madeline’s hearing loss. If you didn’t read it, you can find it HERE. I am so moved by the amount of love and support and the positive messages that have poured forth since my posting [...]
A Call to All Audiologists, ENTs, and Undeclared College Freshmen
Thursday, February 25th, 2010It took 2 months and 2 days for me to have a night like those described in all the baby magazines and articles and promised to first-time parents. A night like last night where all I could do was cry, sitting there holding my sleepless baby, overwhelmed by exhaustion and all that is in my [...]
Project Hope Begins!
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Yesterday I received my first two bottles of 800 clear caps of Wobenzym N, so I started my regimen. Wobenzym N is an enzyme supplement documented to have large impacts on improving or eliminating hearing loss and tinnitus (ringing in the ears). I’m easing into it with 3 pills, 3 times a day for the [...]
A Chance Encounter and a Glimmer of Hope
Sunday, March 30th, 2008At the end of our amazingly relaxing, get-back-to-nature, snowshoe-adventure-filled vacation in the mountains of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, Garrett (my husband) and I decided to stop at Chimney Rock Archaeological Area for one last hike before catching our plane back to New Jersey later that day. We had already been to Chimney Rock earlier in the [...]
