souggy
My long replies to you stand and I have excellent points. If you wish to disagree, point out where you disagree. Otherwise I assume you agree.
Not a nice thing to say. If you disagree, please explain instead of throwing insults. :roll:
They were against CI for 20 years and only in the last few years have they begun to accept CI. They realise that if they can't or won't adjust to CI, they simply can stop wearing their CI. I am getting stem cells because I believe I can adjust. Worst case scinerio, I can always turn the gain on the HAs down equal to the db improvement stem cells achieves. Id still come ahead in quality! Hearing at 30db aided with an 80db loss is better than hearing at 30db aided with 100db loss! Of course I am gonna try max gains first and see how well my brain adjusts to hearing at 10db!
The stem cell clinics in China are reporting that stem cells, as new as they are, already are enjoying over 75% success for deafness and over 90% success for other conditions. Shel says that CI has a 75% success rate so stem cells today is already giving better odds than CI. Not only that, stem cells never destroys residual hearing while CI almost always does.
That's why I said people can get stem cells in stages and in fact that's what's being done. Not only that, stem cells today can not cure deafness, but give a 20db average improvement. In 3 years or so when I get stem cells, I expect a 30db improvement. This may be enough to give me excellent hearing with HAs that is at least equal to CI. Id still be severely deaf unaided. I might not even bother spending additional tens of thousands on repeat rounds of stem cells if I am already hearing equal or better than CI the first few rounds of stem cells! I will still get to enjoy blissful silence without HAs because a 30db improvement is still very, very far from being hearing! So I don't see the problem here when I can get to hear equal or better than CI without undergoing surgery.
