Hello and welcome,
I'm Nat, also known as Chatter in sign. I've been married for three years now, and we've been trying to have children since we got married. We have a tiny, adorable, beautiful, vicious, evil cat called Boom Bewm (look up the brothers Boom and Bewm, it wasn't my choice of name but dang if it isn't appropriate).
I crochet, I teach a class in crochet, take classes in BSL and spending my days walking, hiking and caring for my family.
So I'm married. At the tender age of twenty-two I married my weeping groom (who assures me that they were tears of happiness). Life is life. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's not but we're a team. The ultimate. Half the time he's winding me up, and half the time he's so far into my head that he knows what I'm going to say before I say it. We've already been and done so much together, and while I hope the rest of life is perhaps a little kinder, we have so much still to do and see. And we have Boom cat, our own little rescuee as a kitten. We should have realised we were in trouble when a few weeks after we got her she started looking incredibly similar to a Gremlin. Although Boom is in fact quite happy to get wet. She's the only cat I know who enjoys water, though she only bathes when she wants to (of course, what else could you expect of a Queen?)
The deafness is fairly recent. I've been slowly losing my hearing since my early teens. Not that we realised it then, but I'd developed Meniere's disease which runs in our family. Meniere's affects the cochlear causing hearing loss, tinnitus and vertigo. I'm lucky in my own way; when I got the diagnosis in 2013 it was apparent that while my hearing was being severely affected, my balance was only mildly disturbed. I have my bad days of course, but still. I went properly deaf last summer (2015) when I fell pregnant again. The hormones affected the Meniere's and literally before I knew it I had gone completely deaf, and when I lost the baby my hearing didn't fully come back. I have my hearing aids which help me be more aware of sound around me, but I rely upon lipreading and sign language to understand speech. On the plus side, because of this I've met some truly amazing people, and I'm so deaf nowadays I can't hear the tinnitus anymore :D (Score!)
I crochet (a lot). That started a few years back and I have what's described in my family as 'clever fingers'. Not to blow my own horn, but I'm good with my hands just like my dad. Where he makes things like woodwork, I work with wool. I've gotten good enough that I teach a class once a month at a local wool shop, teaching stitches and granny squares and other simple patterns (at least for now!).
The hiking is both old and new. I used to walk and hike when I was younger, but I've taken it back up again recently as my own way of defeating the crippling, self-esteem destroying that comes side by side with infertility.
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