Spreading awareness.
Bachelor Nation fell in love with Daisy Kent as she looked for love with Joey Graziadei on Season 28 of “The Bachelor.”
While on the show, Daisy opened up about her difficult medical history and shared with Joey that she became extremely ill from Lyme disease, which led her to eventually losing her hearing.
Thankfully, she was able to receive a special treatment in Germany that got her feeling better and recently was able to get a cochlear implant for her hearing loss.
Recently, Daisy posted videos on her Instagram sharing more about her experience with a cochlear implant and her hearing loss journey to spread more awareness.
She shared, “When I started making videos, it had a lot to do with my health and my hearing loss and getting a cochlear implant. I always talk about it, but I haven’t talked about it as much as I would like to. Once a week, I’m gonna make a video explaining different things… Thought it would be a great way to kind of start more of a conversation about different topics.”
Last week, Daisy posted a video going more in depth into her cochlear implant experience and how it works.
She explained, “First question I’m going to answer is ‘How does a cochlear implant work?’... A cochlear implant is two parts. So [the external part] is the outside processor and then there’s a part that was placed internally inside my head.”
Daisy talked about how she had to have surgery to place her cochlear implant and then explained a little more about how it transfers sound.
She shared, “You can actually feel it on the outside [of my head]... There’s a little microphone at the top and that takes in the sound, sends it through the coil, and then the end of the coil attaches by a magnet to my head. So yes, I do have a magnet in my head.”
Daisy then shared the science behind her cochlear implant and how it affects her hearing.
“Essentially what a cochlear implant does is it bypasses the part of the ear that doesn’t work and electrically stimulates my auditory nerve, which sends the signals to my brain,” she explained. “In other words, it’s sending the sound directly to my hearing nerve and kind of bypassing the part of my ear that doesn’t work.”
Fans have been asking Daisy a lot of questions about her hearing loss journey, including if things sound different now than they did before and if speech sounds the same.
She answered, “Right when I got it, it didn’t. Everyone sounded like chipmunks. Now as time has gone on, I can actually tell the difference between voices. My grandma’s laugh was the first thing I heard. Mom’s voice was one of the first voices that started sounding like herself.”
So sweet!
We appreciate Daisy for being so candid and sharing different parts of her hearing loss experience.
We know that her continuing to share her story and be so open about her journey will help so many others.
