What It's Like to Wake Up

This is a great artistic representation of what it feels like to put the cochlear implant on in the morning. And yes, things really do sound like that right now. My hope is that in three or six months down the road, I'll be having those rose petals falling on me, too.

I woke up, looked at my sexy little Harmony. As soon as I put it on, I feel like I'm getting electroshock therapy. Blasts of static shoot up into my head. I'm getting bludgeoned with some sound and I can't figure out what it is. It could be a car going by outside, or the Advil rattling on the table by the bed. Maybe someone farted downstairs. Anyway, it sounds like someone just hit me on the side of the head with a baseball bat.