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IDR is probably not on your radar at this time to be concerned with until you settle in to your implant. I am sure your audiologist probably has you on a conservative setting, necessary for the initial period. Raising the IDR lets more sound in and can make it unbearable if you aren't ready...

I was just like you! I was originally just going to go with Cochlear until I did more research. I also had one of those electronic keyboards that I got for Christmas! It was a Casio PT-80. The keys could only play one note at a time, a fact that wasn't realized until it was too late...

Mike, I suggest you read over cochlear implant HELP. It will cover the entire process and the equipment. It's everything you need to know. AB does provide the most options internally and externally. There is no "here is your implant and that's that." They have the largest number of...

In my experience, after so many years of having the phone sit and ring like a demon taunting me when I couldn't answer it unless I knew the caller (which amounted to one person, my Mom.. and even that was hell,) it becomes habit even after you are perfectly capable. It's still a trip for me...

You have two things going for you. Number one is that you have very low expectations, so any gains from here will be appreciated. Number two is that you don't just give up. That one is the most important to moving beyond the ducks. I do know what you are trying to describe. It really is a...

No, we, or at least I, meant "Dead." I had a severe-profoundly deaf ear that was implanted, but it was not dead. It had been aided with a hearing aid since the loss began and even in the end it was never completely without sound. By "Dead" I was referring to an ear that had never been actually...

Hi, Ok, I'm reaching out with sincerity. So let's move on from our previous scuffle. I'd like to help. What's the hearing history of the ear you implanted? Was it severe/profound unaided for a while prior to your implant? The duck sound is discouraging, I understand. It...

I can tell you better than you can tell me about varying response to hearing technology. I've never said otherwise. I don't rely on industry sponsored studies. We don't need any industry sponsored studies to tell us what happens with the hearing nerve when it goes it goes without stimulation...

Calling you out when you profess to know what those specific situations are is not trolling. Of course, you're thrilled. Two peas in a pod. Except she's actually deaf and you aren't.

It's a bit sad that you are so skittish. I'm sure there are a host of valid reasons behind why you are the way you are. I'd sooner have a civil conversation and my initial instinct would be/was to reason with you for your benefit. I do take issue with unfounded alarmist attitudes because I...

Yes, this statement is a fact. Much better.

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I do not get kickbacks and it isn't about pushing a brand of CI. Sheri is not telling the whole truth and is playing victim. I understand her fears and disappointment. Rather than actually listen to professionals and people who have been there, she chooses to run with her notions. I take...

Was that really all you said? "I'm scared as well." Or is that what you were feeling but what you actually typed was something else? You made a run of assumptions from a post of mine that was pretty logical, reasonable and wasn't a reply to you. I provided example of possible responses to...

That's an uneducated statement. You do not know if the site referred to was even a company owned site. AB does provide a range of very patient oriented services that are precisely about the people. Paranoid hysteria serves no purpose. It's a business. That does not make it evil or non...

May you crash and burn in your test tomorrow! :)

No, no one is saying that at all. You can't hear and can't be expected to function as if you can. You are expected to make use of every available accommodation. Just because some asshole thought the best approach was to slap your hands and make you learn to speak where it was asking too much...

Incorrect, I am not indicating YOU are relying on your HA. Your brain is. There is nothing you are consciously doing or can do. You implanted a dead ear. You are not experiencing what someone who implants an ear that was never without hearing/stronger ear experiences and cannot use your two...

Shoulda, woulda, coulda.... this isn't a debate about how it should be for your benefit. The fact is you live in a hearing world and it is YOU that must adapt to it, not the other way around. You get to have concessions like interpreters and closed captioning. You get to have legal...

Would you like me to point you in the direction of quite a few people who will let you know exactly how much of a miracle device their CI has been for them? Again, know your topic before you speak on it. It's not about accepting deafness when it comes to parents and doctors, it's about giving...