JM5

DETERMINATION - Get to level 8.5 in the beep test** At the beginning of the year my grandma woke up with a sudden stroke. She felt dizzy but worse than that she had lost her hearing. The ambulance came took and her to hospital. A stroke happens when a clot or a thickening of blood stops the blood from getting to your brain. Part of your brain is damaged, sometimes it can cause death. For Grandma it mainly caused deafness. In the hospital it was really hard, people kept talking loudly to her but she still couldn’t hear them. The only way we could communicate was by writing on a white board. Grandad even brought a laptop which wasn’t as successful as most things. You were supposed to be able to speak to it and the words would come up on the screen but the wrong words kept coming up. It was getting pretty lonely for Grandma because she just couldn’t join in with conversations. But for her the worst part was the music which was her passion, now it just couldn’t be heard and she couldn’t hear me play the piano. For 4 long months my Grandma had been in a silent world. Finally she had an appointment at the hearing clinic to see what they could do. They said there was a brand new device that may have a small chance of working. When it finally came and they turned it on it was amazing she could hear! Everyone cheered. It wasn’t totally successful because it dug hard into her skull and quite often it wouldn’t work. One month went by and when she went back to the clinic there was a new hearing aid invention, the first in New Zealand. It was amazing and her hearing was now 70%. ||  || __Action Plan__
 *  James Mortimer
 * || Never || Sometimes || Always ||
 * Know my goal ||  || Yes ||   ||
 * Practise ||  ||   || Yes ||
 * Talk positively to myself & others ||  || Yes
 * //__ I think science can be a wonderful thing  __//**
 * Keep on going when difficult/boring ||  ||   || Yes ||

I will run round our lawn 10 times every 2nd day. Never will I say something not positive about my running.


 * //__ From Brady __//**