1. While I don't have my medical charts, I can remember many details and experiences of my hospitalization, follow up visits to my ENT, and the pros and cons of having this type of hearing loss.
2. Me, after surgery circa mid 1970s. I came home on Christmas Eve.
3. These surgeries changed me forever.
4. Resources Such as Simi Linton's "Claiming Disability"
5. Other narratives by people with disabilities or illnesses hospitalized as children (i.e., "The Me in The Mirror"
6. Other literature on narratives related to Disability Studies (i.e., "Narrative and its potential contribution to disability studies"
7. Had three surgeries before I was 10: tonsillectomy, a "patched" ear drum, and what I recall as being a "mastoidectomy" which involved procedures similar to that of those involved in getting a cochlear implant.
8. I never saw myself as sick, as disabled, but different, as modified.
9. Resource: Couser's Studies
10. Grealy's narrative
11. Ferris' narrative
12. Cancer was discovered as a child only after sustaining a chance injury. Had disfiguring surgery and subsequently uncomfortable cancer treatments. Later as adult had corrective surgeries to rebuild her jaw and each failed.
13. Grealy was not "abandoned" at the hospital but did she feel orphaned like Ferris? She recounts the attitude of her father and family upon diagnosis though.
14. "Left behind" at the hospital (almost an orphan). He was born with a disability and endured living at the hospital away from family and several surgeries to fix his leg.
