So much has changed...

Hello World! I have been meaning to "start a blog" and share my experiences for the last 3-4 years and had completely lost track that I have actually started a blog with the same thoughts that I have been intending to pen down. 
This is the reason why I love blogs! The online diary that stays perpetually ...going back to 2011, my intro here for example says I am HoH and suffering from profound hearing loss but wearing a hearing aid. Cut to 2022, and I am completely deaf. No hearing aid is helping me. No surgery is going to help. I have tried and failed at Cochlear Implants - I have taken consult from doctors across the world, US, Australia, New Zealand, and more recently Germany, to figure if there is a way that some hearing can be restored! But alas, so far I have only met with hope and not-so-false prognosis that the future looks grim. 
A decade ago I was of the opinion that if I lose my hearing, it would probably be the end of the world for me. But seems it isn't so. With increasing age and gaining more people and experiences in life, I realize hearing is one of the things that I need to stay alive and live well. My husband has been a treasure, technology that provides live captions has ensured that my life does not go all down the hill, working in an organization that has been supportive with my change in hearing status has really helped me to maintain my self-esteem, and of course having a family that has been around me like a rock has been incredible. All these and a lot more give me the confidence to go on - carry on. 

Of course, it gets lonely. Of course, I hate the silence - at times it just hits me too hard that I do not hear a sound in the middle of a crowded street. But I feel blessed to have good thoughts with me. They keep me company and how. 

Today, in 2022, as I write this - the world around is gripped with social and economic turmoil. After facing the challenges of a health pandemic in the last few years, one would hope that people will not wage wars and bring in more deaths and turmoil, but that's it - one can just hope. Prayers for everyone.

Hope you are all doing much better than you were in 2011.  I intend to write more often and connect with all of you, whoever is reading this, more regularly.