Are you free this Saturday morning? Would you like to do your part in helping the needy and disabled children who are mostly abandoned in China?
Just like many others in USA, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia, Hongkong and Taiwan, Singaporeans are now welcome and invited to gather their family members or friends to do this 10km morning walk at Marina Bay to show support for these kids.
For enquiries, email – singapore@chinaconcern.org
I was at ENT Clinic @ Tan Tock Seng Hospital yesterday, seeing my audiologist.
I saw him twice late last week, due to a fault in my cochlear implant device. ”Implant disconnected from coil. Reconnect to resolve”.
Melissa, from the manufacturer company came down to see me, with her equipment to do troubleshooting.
The remote assistant is working. The battery is okay. All components of the processor device is working
Guess what?
I was told yesterday that the internal implant electrode part of the cochlear implant device (inside head) is faulty. It shall be replaced with a brand-new implant model via general surgery again. The replacement is free of charge. As for the surgical cost, it should likely be able to be, again, covered by the $50k medifund support which I’ve gotten.
What a bumpy road to regain hearing. I have to endure another 15 days of hellish pain in my head.
According to my audiologist and ENT specialist doctor, such occurrences are not common but it do happens.
I said it is hellish pain. Why? It is especially so for the first 3/4 days after the surgery. Once the full anesthesic effect wears off, you will know how unbearable the PAIN is in the head (especially the operated side). That is when you will start crying for strength and endurance. Yes, I do get painkiller pills. Mild ones and strong ones.
If I ever have a son or daugher who have to go through what I am going through now, enduring such pain, crying for Papa to relieve his/her pain. Awwww…it will be so heart-breaking. I can now fully feel how parents of cochlear implant kids feel.
I need strength. I am stepping into fire again.
Operation date – Wednesday 21 December. 10.45am.
On Tuesday, I made an urgent trip to Tan Tock Seng Hospital to see my audiologist, as there seems to be something wrong with my cochlear implant device.
Had a 1-hour+ friendly chat with a German senior audiologist named Felix, of whom works in one of Europe’s leading hearing care companies, at Novena Square. I am surprised that they offer a very wide range of hearing aid products, of more than 15 brands (including Siemens Medical Instruments which I am currently using). Wow.
After performing a free hearing test on a customer, they customise specific needs of the customer according to his/her lifestyle patterns and budget range, by conducting a questionaire which may take about 20 – 30 minutes. Thereafter, a variety of hearing aids (of different brands) are selectively handpicked by the audiologist, specially for the customer. And guess what? The customer gets to pick one hearing aid of his/her choice, and take it home to try for a certain time period, without any obligation, to help make an informed decision as in which hearing-aid device the customer wants to purchase.
According to Felix, they have this belief that the potential customer, young or old, has the right to make a well-informed decision, need to understand at first hand how hearing aids work and to find a right fit before he/she decides to buy one. Hence with that rationale in mind, they allow customers to bring one hearing aid home to try, without feeling obliged to buy it. Customers have a choice to buy or not to buy hearing aid(s) offered to them.
Oh, I like that!
I might consider patronising this new hearing care centre. 
For more details, do check out their website – www.kind.sg
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