Overthepond..
great example....
I agree. that the CI is not just a toy. It's Lottes way of hearing, and just passing it around is not an option. (btw... Lotte got a third and fourth boob at he same time, so she would still hear when 1 is off..)¨
Lotte being born deaf is not an issue when people visit us. Not that we forget, but in daily life people would not notice.
Some weeks ago we had a colleague over for dinner and two friends. The latter knowi that Lotte is born deaf. The new colleague didn't.
That evening we talked about a lot of stuff. About India (where the new colleague is from) about university, research projects, culture differences, the internet, Skype, you name it..... It was fun...
But it took another week for her to find out that the little girl she had seen was born deaf. She never noticed, we never discussed it.... It was probably mentioned as part of the research that my wife is participating in..
Bottom line is... Lotte is far, far more that a girl with two CI's. In a strange way... her CI's are all the way in the background... Focusing on it means letting the focus get away from her.... It's OK for a little moment...
