Update: Delay of Game (Mine)

Allison is recovering according to schedule, and next week – the big hook up! Dr. Slater will check her incision on Tuesday afternoon, and then Thursday morning, the audiologist, Amy Gensler, will turn on Allison's ear! More on this soon. The delay, then, has nothing to do with Allison or the implant, but rather on my reporting of it. Last Wednesday, I sat down at a coffee shop in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn and began a new post. I intended to address why Allison was the perfect candidate for a cochlear implant (CI), but found that I needed to first explain how a CI works. How a CI functions, though, is best understood in relation to how natural hearing functions (more specifically, how Allison heard after her mechanisms for hearing were damaged). But natural hearing and the workings of the inner ear cannot really be explained without a proper consideration of the nature of sound itself – in other words, how or why sound travels in waves. And what is a wave, anyway? Then I turned over a glass of green tea on my laptop. Tea spilled around the keys and drained down onto the motherboard. Fortunately, my hard drive escaped unscathed, but the computer is trashed. So as I wait for Tekserve to transfer the data from my hard drive to a new, external drive, I am busy trying to understand waves. I'll keep you posted.