Cochlear recalls Nucleus CI500

Nothing works forever. So? Her CIs work for her right now; all she needed was a fresh battery. She knew where to go to get one, and she did it.
 
Cloggy said:
Charged batteries work the whole day... She will make her own backup plan when she's old enough...

Oh.. sorry, you mean "she will be comfortable not hearing"...
Well, that might take a long time.. She's so used to talking to everybody around her that "not hearing" possibly will alienate her from all the hearing people....
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Well - there are those of us that are "not hearing" and some can do fine talking with people. I myself, due to struggles learning and remembering, am still very oral, but slowly going less and less oral. I also have zero hearing and no HA or CI to help. It is possible and it is being done by more than me.
 
cloggy said:
charged batteries work the whole day... She will make her own backup plan when she's old enough...

Oh.. Sorry, you mean "she will be comfortable not hearing"...
Well, that might take a long time.. She's so used to talking to everybody around her that "not hearing" possibly will alienate her from all the hearing people....
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exactly!!!!!
 
Beach girl said:
Nothing works forever. So? Her CIs work for her right now; all she needed was a fresh battery. She knew where to go to get one, and she did it.
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And if there wasn't a fresh battery, what then? As Cloggy said, she feels alienated as a deaf person. That's not good.
 
Beach girl said:
Why the pity? She sounds like a self-sufficient little girl who knows what she needs and knows where to find it, and took it upon herself to run home to get it. She has an excellent spirit of initiative, so good for her.

The reality of her life is that she's at school with hearing and speaking kids and has a hearing/speaking teacher. In that environment she needs her CIs. So what's the big deal? Knowing sign language would not have helped her any.

I applaud her. Smart kid with initiative, she'll do fine in her life.
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do you acknowledge that CI has its limitation when it comes to communication?
 
Beach girl said:
Why the pity? She sounds like a self-sufficient little girl who knows what she needs and knows where to find it, and took it upon herself to run home to get it. She has an excellent spirit of initiative, so good for her.

The reality of her life is that she's at school with hearing and speaking kids and has a hearing/speaking teacher. In that environment she needs her CIs. So what's the big deal? Knowing sign language would not have helped her any.

I applaud her. Smart kid with initiative, she'll do fine in her life.
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Thank you for understanding...
 
Frisky Feline said:
Can you image that those ci users who become adults they WILL have hard times finding or buying new ones.

my hub is disappointed about it ,big time.
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Thats why im against free ha/ci for kids
it needs free ha/ci for everyone or no1
 
KristinaB said:
Well - there are those of us that are "not hearing" and some can do fine talking with people. I myself, due to struggles learning and remembering, am still very oral, but slowly going less and less oral. I also have zero hearing and no HA or CI to help. It is possible and it is being done by more than me.
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And... how does this work for a 9 year old in school..??
 
inmate23 said:
Thats why im against free ha/ci for kids
it needs free ha/ci for everyone or no1
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So... you are against because adults need to pay and kids get them for free...
WOW... that's a new argument against CI for kids...

How about being supportive for CI for kids and hope that in time (with a health system that works) adults will get then free as well...

Like in Norway...
 
Cloggy said:
So... you are against because adults need to pay and kids get them for free...
WOW... that's a new argument against CI for kids...

How about being supportive for CI for kids and hope that in time (with a health system that works) adults will get then free as well...

Like in Norway...
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not here in USA> my hub suffers not to able afford to get a new one.

Edit: Speaking of getting new after he lost it. So does norway provides you free one if you lose the CI as an adult?
 
Cloggy said:
do you acknowledge that ASL has its limitation when it comes to communication?
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so you're telling me you prefer verbal communication over ASL with your own child.... I see

and no it has no limitation especially for deaf people.
 
Cloggy said:
do you acknowledge that ASL has its limitation when it comes to communication?
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Since you're not using sign with your daughter, I would imagine it's very limited to her as a form of communication. From what I gather, you don't see much point in her learning it since she doesn't go to a deaf school, doesn't have deaf friends nor deaf relatives.

You feel as long as there's a charged battery, there's no need. She hears well, she speaks well. What's the big fuss?

I keep thinking alot about my ASL teacher. He's young, deaf, and one of the most positive people I've come across. He strikes me as a really happy confident person who has a great sense of humour and has the ability to not just communicate with but touch people on a personal level, whether they know ASL or not. I've never heard him speak a single word, not that he needs to anyway. It was his positivity and absolute ease with deafness that impressed me the most. I couldn't take my eyes off him in class, I was so fascinated and gratified to see that deafness is just another state of being, it's not something broken, it's not something sad, it's not something that needs to be suppressed as much as possible. It's just a way of life, that's all.

The most beautiful thing of all was to see his self-confidence. Because deafness is not an issue for him, it's not an issue for anyone else. His ease and warmth overcomes language barriers. He doesn't need a battery to function.

While yes, having hearing is nice and being able to speak and hear people with a working CI is nice, it would be truly a wonderful thing if she can also gain that same confidence as a deaf person in a hearing world so she wouldn't need to run home for backup hearing. It would especially serve her well in life not to feel like she's the only deaf person she knows. One can never get over the sense of feeling estranged from society as a whole when they've no community of their own. Your daughter has a magnet on her head, believe me, she's already aware she's not the same as hearing people even if she can hear nearly as well with them....provided the battery's working.
 
Cloggy said:
And... how does this work for a 9 year old in school..??
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As I was not 9 when I lost all of my hearing I can not say. All I can say is, that as I was losing my hearing, I basically taught myself to read lips. I have a hearing family and grew up in a hearing family. We did not know about anything for the hard of hearing or deaf except that I did have HA's from age 7-10 and not again until 38. For me, it was sink or swim.

All I am saying is, don't sell your child short. If she did not have any amplification, but sis have ASL or whatever sign is in your country, she will learn to adapt and go from there. Most children can learn to adapt. Even those with multiple disabilities learn to adapt. I remember days when my HA batteries died, I removed them, put them into a cloth bag I was given and then put that into my lunch box until I could go home. Home at that time was 13 miles from school, so I couldn't run there. Life is a lot about adapting to your surroundings.
 
Jiro said:
so you're telling me you prefer verbal communication over ASL with your own child.... I see

and no it has no limitation especially for deaf people.
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Yes,

and no it has no limitation especially for people that can hear.
 
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