| Well, let's see. An about me page. Hmmm...what would you like to know...lol Well, obviously, my name is Cindy. I use the name Lady Wolfe on the net most of the time. I own this website and 3 others. My Printables Shop, My Free Graphics site and my Native American site. You can find the links to all of these on the home page of this site, right hand side. I've been using PSP now for about 5 years and have ventured to almost every avenue as far as creating. I've done sig tags, tag sets, web sets, wallpapers, calendars alpha's...to name a few. I own 4 Yahoo groups at the moment and really enjoy my time on the computer. I am 47 years old, born on August 15th of 1960. I was born in Bemidji, Minnesota the home of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. I was adopted when I was two years old and moved to the southern part of Minnesota where I was raised and also made my home. I have 3 grown kids.....Hillary is 19 and has 3 children from the age of 4 and younger. 2 boys and a girl. She is married to a serviceman who just got home from Iraq. Heather is 21 and has 3 kids, ages 2 1/2 and 1 1/2, and a 4 week old newborn. 2 boys and a girl.. And Nick, my son just turned 27 and has a 1 1/2 old daughter. If you did your math right, I got 7 grandbabies in 4 years. Whew!! I am a disabled individual, having lost my hearing in the year 2000. I have this strange disease called Cogan's Syndrome where your body attacks itself and destroys cells and things. It started in my eyes and although we now have that somewhat under control, I do have some bad scars on my eyes and have meds that I have to use for them. Then it moved to my ears. One morning I woke up completely deaf in my left ear and only half my hearing left in my right ear. I have had to do a lot of rounds of steroids trying to save them. I also had no balance left that morning and was very sick all the way around. I was fitted for a hearing aid for my right ear and used that as long as I could. I also started what turned out to be almost a year of rehabilitation to learn how to walk and focus again. With my ear being unbalanced like that, no hearing in one and only half in the other, it threw my equilibrium off so bad that I could not function very well and would fall down or crash into walls and such just trying to get from room to room. Hence the rehabilitation. I used my hearing aid for almost 2 years but noticed that I was having to turn it up more and more. Hearing tests confirmed that I was losing more and more hearing all the time. One morning in June of 2000, I woke up and couldn't get my hearing aid to work.. I took it in to find there was nothing wrong with it and I had in fact lost all my hearing. I headed for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and had several rounds of testing to see if I would be a candidate for the Cochlear Implant. I consider myself extremely lucky because my hearing loss did not include losing the nerves fibers (hairs) deep inside my ears where the cochlear of your ear is. Some people are not so lucky and the implant would never would for them. I had my surgery that coming December and was officially "turned on" January 25th. That was the longest 5 months of my life I think. You don't know how much you take advantage of the senses that you have until you lose one of them as I did. My world held no sound, not a stitch of it for those 5 months. The implant works wonderful! It isn't and never will be like having my normal hearing, and although I still have to say HUH? quite a bit, I have regained some of my hearing and can carry on a conversation if you are sitting or standing close to me. I have just learned to talk on the phone again thanks to a new device they came out with called the T Mike. I don't "watch" Tv, but I do "read" TV. I have to use the Closed Captions option for any TV, Videos, or DVD's. Let's see, what else about that? I think I have covered it pretty good without having to go into too much detail. Ok, I now live in Northern Iowa on a farm with my High School sweetheart who I re-met after almost 20 years. We have been together now for 10 years and although we have talked of marriage, neither of us is in a hurry....lolKind of a been there, done that for both of us and we are just enjoying life together. We did go through the his kids and my kids stage, but mine are grown now and he has 2 that have graduated and 1 that only has 2 years left. Then we will be beyond the child support and what not and be free to do the things we would like to do together. Well, I think that about covers it and if you aren't bored to death now...lol then you know a bit about me. Thanks for taking the time to meet the person behind the site and for stopping in to see me. Hugs... Cindy~Lady Wolfe |
