Profoundly deaf woman blogs about her HAs success!

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GROWING UP HARD OF HEARING IN A HEARING WORLD

She has around a 100db loss(which is what I had in 1998) and she's getting great benefit from HAs. She hears all the environmental sounds, even the high pitches of birds! She also understands some speech! I used to hear as good as her before my hearing got worse. She had only a moderate hearing loss before that and was able to make do without HAs! Her hearing got worse and now she needs HAs or she hears nothing!
 
Fair Jour will get you, and your little dog Toto too!
 
If someone is happy hearing SOME speech with hearing aids that is their choice. If someone chooses an implant because they want better access to speech that is their choice. Deafdude, one of the problems with your posts is that you feel those with implants are ripping off insurance companies and took the easy way out. This attitude of yours is evident in many of your posts. Deafdude, no surgery is easy and no choice that takes many implantees months to make is easy. I have no problem with your choice to wait for stem cells. As someone with a science background and hearing loss I don't mind if you post more info on stem cells but, DUDE lose the attitude. We should all be united by hearing loss not divided by treatment choices. Educate don't Judge.
 
deafdude1 said:
GROWING UP HARD OF HEARING IN A HEARING WORLD

She has around a 100db loss(which is what I had in 1998) and she's getting great benefit from HAs. She hears all the environmental sounds, even the high pitches of birds! She also understands some speech! I used to hear as good as her before my hearing got worse. She had only a moderate hearing loss before that and was able to make do without HAs! Her hearing got worse and now she needs HAs or she hears nothing!
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If that is all she wants to hear, good for her. Some people want access to ALL speech sounds.
 
You're wrong. She does not understand speech. Only while lipreading
 
Sorry FJ, I didnt mean you, I meant DD, I was just quoting your quote
 
Maybe I'm wrong but when I've spoke to the girl online, she has never said anythin about understanding people. she has just got HA a few days ago so how could she understand that quickly
 
Wait. While this is only a blog and we can only take that with a grain of salt, why should we have to disbelieve it? Just because some people say that if all we want is to hear, good for us? Whether we get the most out of it or not? Anyhow, It is entirely possible this blogger is exaggerating (for whatever reason, including that she is so excited about her new HAs, or just for the sake of it who knows?) who are we to be skeptical that a good outcome can happen? :roll:
 
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Not that I care at all, but I just read it and she has Oticon, Epoq. Those are not for profound loss anyway are they?
 
Hear Again said:
Here's what I found on the Oticon website. I don't know if it's of any help though Bott:

Oticon Epoq Benefits
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Thank you Hear Again. Maybe just my reading skills , but I could not find the fitting range in there. The descriptions make them seem like they are for people with a moderate loss later in life to regain lost hearing.

They don't sound like they are for deaf people.

I better read that woman's blog more thouroughly.
 
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