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By voting against stem cells, you and everyone else who voted stopped Americans from being able to get stem cells in our own country. If I have a life threatening disease, I might have to move to a country that has stem cells to cure my disease.

There isn't enough vaccines to go around so only those in "high risk" group can get one. Also im still researching the risks of the vaccine itself and how efficient it is, some say 50-70% reduced chance of getting the swine flu. My deepest condolences for your sister. Was she in the "high...

NJ is an expensive state, especially the northern portion since it's near NYC and people often commute to NYC for business. Many people rent with roommates, few can afford to own even a small house.

Im guessing she voted against embryonic stem cells. I don't care for embryonic stem cells as they don't work(and just cause tumors), but adult stem cells work great. Shame that USA is years behind, probably due to all the anti stem cell naysayers. For those of us who choose to get treated with...

Some children who are born deaf recover from their deafness Clinical research conducted in the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Haifa revealed that some children who are born deaf "recover" from their deafness and do not require surgical intervention. To date...

My HAs add about 10% to my lipreading score. I wear them mostly to hear sounds.

What age do you have to be to take this test? All those words would sound alike to me, but id do quite well on the phoneme part. A deaf dude's life: I scored 35% speech CNC with a home test administered by dad. This 35% phoneme, 8% CNC was in a noisy computer room and my dad reading those...

Consonant/Nucleus/Consonant (CNC) Test I scored 4% unaided at 105db HL loudness on my March 2009 audiogram. That score example of 42% is what someone with about 80db HL would score. A CI would score around 50% in comparsion. My thread is educational and explains what an average person would...

Have you incurred any damage or loss to your hearing from loud noise/music? This may affect your ability to hear speech perfectly.

Consonant/Nucleus/Consonant (CNC) Test I scored 4% unaided at 105db HL loudness on my March 2009 audiogram. That score example of 42% is what someone with about 80db HL would score. A CI would score around 50% in comparsion.

A whisper is 30db HL, so a person would need to hear at 0db to score this high. I will never hear 100% of a whisper even with stem cells. Looking at my previous audiograms, I had speech awareness at 45db HL and understood some speech words at 60db HL aided. Ill of course have new audiograms and...

What does she score on an open set monosyllabic word test, such as CNC or NU6?

Normal converstational speech is 55db HL. A moderate hearing loss, when adequately amplified will often score in the 90-95% range of monosyllabic speech and 100% sentence. Ive seen a few with CI who score 100% sentence. Ive also seen a few with severe loss score 100% as well. I know a guy with...

Then you have the right to retire your HAs permanently, perhaps sell or donate them and enjoy the silence forever. Nothing wrong with that. I sometimes go without HAs myself. I do like hearing sounds though. I rarely get tinnitus and when I do, it's brief. I am able to speak and read lips...

The short verson is to hear more sounds, speech and enjoy music. My reasons are similar to those who choose CI, except I choose stem cells for it's advantages over CI: A deaf dude's life: Stem cells is superior to cochlear implants. Well worth the wait! Theres many more advantages than the...

I know I never had normal hearing and I don't expect normal hearing after stem cells, just a huge improvement. I am realistic in what stem cells can do. Yes, ive read their blogs and been in contact. None of them are saying CI is a cure nor that it gives them normal hearing. Their speech...

I know I never had normal hearing and I don't expect normal hearing after stem cells, just a huge improvement. Please see my long reply to you here, I have alot of good points: http://www.alldeaf.com/general-chat/72373-adult-stem-cell-happening-right-now-cure-hearing-loss-3.html#post1468325

Their speech thru a CI is comparable to HAs for someone with a severe hearing loss. I have proven this before in other threads, feel free to agree or disagree(if so, back it up)

Please see my long reply to you here: http://www.alldeaf.com/general-chat/72373-adult-stem-cell-happening-right-now-cure-hearing-loss-3.html#post1468325 So did I with powerful HAs. I also am not starting from scratch, my brain just will readapt to additional sounds as it has before everytime...

Funny that FJ thinks the brain will do fine with CI but not with stem cells. My brain was able to adapt and interpret signals when I got new HAs in 1998 and 2008. I was hearing sounds I never heard before in my life. It's no different with CI or stem cells...