This story covers the author"s journey from the time she fell into a coma and woke up totally deaf, through her surgery to get an "electronic ear" (more correctly called a cochlear implant) and the ongoing effort to learn how to use it to hear again. There are many problems with substitute hearing, but they do fade--like background noise--to a place of lesser importance. Electronic hearing may not be perfect, but it"s a whole lot better than no hearing at all. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Hearing Without Ears (Linda Knapp)