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What nice moments everyone :)

No way. Peer pressure is when someone is pressured to do something they don't really want to do in their heart of hearts but they do it because their wanting to be liked and accepted by the crowd is stronger. A personal political decision is made out of ones conscience and beliefs and is...

In your student's case, it sounds like the programs get wiped when her stasticy hair touches the processor. Is it reasonably long? You might want to suggest to the parents to get it cut short until her behaviour improves. Or perhaps have it plaited away around to the back. Also some clothing...

It has to directly touch your processor to affect it, I understand. So avoid bumping your head on the car door as you get out! :giggle:

Maria, While I appreciate that the author of the vlog is concerned about Meningitis, I find the title of the vlog over the top and provoking eye rolling. It implies that every single CI user is going to die. As I understand it, roughly about 0.15% of CI users have contracted meningitis...

Does she have to wear her CI during rough play? I would just have her take it off if nothing else is working. Or teach her to regularly discharge the static by touching something metal.

Skullchick did create a thread recently here in this forum in which she posted her results. If you have a close look, I'm sure you will find it.

Congratulations! I remember too I had a better recovery for the second one compared to the first one. My friend who is also bilateral, had a slower recovery with her second surgery so it shows how different ears can produce different experiences! I would still advise you to lie low and not...

That's true. But I think that with more people within deaf culture getting CIs this will be less of a factor. We were speaking more of a personal, political decision not to wear a CI. I knew a few people who made a political decision not to wear a hearing aid despite having grown up with them...

That's fine. I was speaking in the context of non use of the CI and I personally suspect that CI users won't be any different to hearing aid users coming later in life to deaf culture who have continued to wear them in large numbers. Especially since a growing number of people who are active...

And you! I'm still not sure what the posts you are referring to that say there are no risks. I had interpreted the "old news" remarks to mean that it was a thread repost and am not even sure if those were the ones you had in mind. However, I sense you are reluctant to single out specific...

I have to agree - I'm not aware of any statistics that say that deaf people are more likely to be killed as a result of not being able to hear. I think that they learn to be more visual. However, I have noticed that safety assessment is less hard work when one can hear. I was more...

I personally think that many of those who will decide to learn sign later in life and get involved with the deaf community will continue to use their CIs, just because they are useful. Many deaf community members still wear their hearing aids for example.

Okay, cool. None of us expects you or wants for you to get a CI. Do you feel that because we chose to have a CI that we aren't truly happy or do not view ourselves as deaf people? Perhaps I have got the wrong message from your posts. It's interesting that you are looking forward to having...

Wow you have such strong feelings against CIs! Can you not be happy for us who get a lot of benefit from our CIs and enjoy hearing? I'm happy for you for the choices you have made, all we are asking for this in return :) Also perhaps do you feel that you can learn anything from us? The...

Jillio, I just want to make it clear that I was not actually comparing the actual weighted risks getting a CI to car usage in my first post but was making the point that people make uninformed choices about the dangers of car driving because they car drive all the time and every time they hop...

As a CI user, I would say that the CI has enhanced my quality of life so much that I would certainly compare it to the value obtained from driving a car. You might not, but lots of deaf people do. When I lost my hearing, I suffered depression for the very first time in my life for which I...

I agree with JennyB. Just think of how much less effort you are now putting into lipreading in every day situations as a result of improved audition. This was the biggest thing I noticed - not having to depend so heavily on lipreading which I found exhausting. :)

I think it's more about perspective. Sure, there's a risk in obtaining a CI (which we CI users are informed about by our surgeons) but then there is a risk with most activities. Car driving is a really good example. Sometimes it feels like the risks of getting a CI is being emphasized way...

I always take the processor off for rides and zip it away into a pocket. I've caught too many of other people's baseball caps etc that have flown off, so I don't want to take the risk. Good luck for your surgery on May 25th :)