Deaf Wife Who Got Hearing Back With Pioneering Device Now Hates Husband’s Noisy Eating
A woman who has been deaf all her life can now hear thanks to pioneering technology.
However, there is just one problem; her husband eats his food too loudly.
Louise Windsor, 41, from Wellington, Somerset, has spent the past four decades in virtual silence after it was discovered when she was 14 months old that she was deaf.
But now she can hear again after doctors equipped her with a device that sends sound signals to the brain.
And now that she can hear everything around her, she has a new dilemma; she thinks her husband Mark, 41, is too noisy when he’s eating.
He has also been told off for having the TV up too loud.
Mrs Windsor, a dinner lady, said: “I can hear birds outside, I can hear an aeroplane and even my dishwasher. It has changed my life.
“At first it was hard and took a while to get used to people talking but now I can hear most things. I’ve always lip read so I still do that naturally.”
Her husband said: “If you’re eating a packet of crisps it does her head in.
“Now we find she is the one telling us to keep it down - when I have Coronation Street on she’ll turn the volume down.”
Mrs Windsor was the 1,000th patient to have the procedure at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.
A cochlear implant, similar to a mini-microphone, was installed in her ear. The device sends information as electrical impulses directly to the nerve.
Surgeons drilled through the bone and into the inner ear, creating a 2.5mm hole to thread a string of electrodes.
(Pictures: SWNS)
