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I couldn't get it sooner. If I could have I would have.

Not yet. I got a stapedectomy done for my left ear in May, but it didn't get it out of profound range, so it will likely sound like **** for speech. Got the CI for my right ear. I don't want to confuse my brain by giving it two different sources of weirdness at once so I'll wait to try to wear...

I got another tattoo in July :) That was right after we finished. I got it done in one 6 hour sitting This a few days later, got two because it's kinda hard to take a pic of your own back, and I still didn't get all of it in the shot :/ but less shiny, looks better

Oh yes, I took this picture this evening. My son is sitting in the hot tub at my folks way across from me. I had a short conversation with him from sitting right there, that far apart. My mind is completely blown.boom

My back back they gave me for all my schtuff The stuff Got a skinit for it, sacred wheel When I went on Monday I picked up my teal processor (they'd messed up my order) Now I'm mixing and matching Oh!!! And the best part!! My first hearing test. This 2.5 weeks post activation

I'm late I'm late!!! I had my second mapping on Monday. Everything sounds soooooo much better. Most people's voice are recognizable now and sound more natural. Well, except mine, I still sound weird. Music sounds a little better, but only if I know the song. I'm wicked happy it!!! I have another...

Life can be hard for anybody, but it's what you make it. Being deaf makes communication with the world at larger harder. Life? Not so much, but that's a subjective question, because as I said, life is what you make it. It reminds me of a quote pic I posted on Facebook today. "Being negative...

Typically yes it's a minimal risk, but I had an increased risk for it due the effects of my disease and what it did to the bones in my ears. I didn't say it'd be likely for me, just that I had an increased risk of it happening. I should also add that he said if it did happen they could fix it by...

Posting a blog about an extremely negative view about CI's and then asking only for negative experiences isn't exactly wanting all views, I'm just saying. Of all the members on here with CI's Smithtr is the only one I can think of with really negative ramifications. Granted I've only been on...

Hahahaha you don't know me, otherwise you'd realize I don't care. Read it, don't read it, I don't give a rat's ass. Kinda proves my point though now doesn't it? You don't want to hear any other view so you're not even going read it. ;)

Sooooo Jezzie, you're dismissing the positive opinions and experiences of people that have CI and are only receptive to negative ones? No you didn't say that, you didn't have to, it's obvious. You only want to hear something that validates your own opinion. You know what you're not considering...

No not against their will, that's the wrong phrase for that. That would mean it's something they didn't want, when it happened. A baby doesn't "not want a CI", they're not even aware of it. This is why you need parents permission for things, or people that incompetent in some way, incapable of...

For me it depends, I can still hear it with either ear. But if my tinnitus is going in my right ear, my implanted ear, if I'm wearing the CI it actually amplifies it a bit. Not too much louder, but noticeably louder anyway. BUT!!!! On the whole I have less occurrences of tinnitus since getting...

You know there's plenty of CI recipients on this very forum, you can just ask people about their experience instead of going by second hand accounts. Smithtr had a pretty bad experience with his CI, pretty sure he was getting migraines. You also have to realize some cases are exceptions, not...

I had headaches the first couple days of my implant being activated (wearing the processor and getting sound) then if I tried launder volume programs I would, but they'd go away once my brain got used to the input. I went for my second mapping on Monday. All new programs and electrode...

I guess somebody should clue our school systems in on the fact that the ASL is going to die. My kids school just added ASL as a foreign language, both my kids are taking it. Seems a funny thing for the "hearies" to do when they're trying to obliterate Deaf culture. Just so we're...

It means my ears don't work, pretty simple. I don't link my identity to it at all, my ears don't work, I am not my ears. Being deaf doesn't effect WHO I am as a person. My likes and dislikes, my interests, what I find funny, what I believe about things, these are things that make up who I am...

Hiochi man I love you, even though this an area we will never in a million years agree on, but I gotta say.......you're the who said it was "balanced". That was about as far from balanced as you could get.

Meh, that wasn't an "article". It was an opinion piece, more like a blog. It was full of bias and unsubstantiated opinion. No evidence, no research, just anecdotes, we know this guy, there's a couple of cases. Poo on that. I saw someone wondering about people who implanted early. I have an...

Hoichi you should get with the times man!! Doctors don't recommend that children with a CI don't sign. 10 years ago the family that lived across the hall from me had a deaf daughter that was implanted as a baby. She was 2 when they moved in, a person came to them every week to work with the...