Swimming with CI...

I read this and my heartbreak! :|
 
Cloggy- that's great that you guys found a solution to Lotte wearing her CI in the water! She looked like she was having a blast. Probably a good idea for her to have only worn one though :)
 
CSign said:
Cloggy- that's great that you guys found a solution to Lotte wearing her CI in the water! She looked like she was having a blast. Probably a good idea for her to have only worn one though :)
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She was... and you realise this was 2008?
Nowadays, actually, since that summer, she didn't use them in the water..
But at that age, it worked perfect....
 
drphil said:
Good news for the above: Advanced Bionics how has a waterproof Cochlear Implant for swimmers.
As a daily swimmer absolutely no interest in a waterproof implant which one takes off after swimming to "dry off". Not unduly concerned about not hearing the music playing. I have got used to "DEAF swimming" over the last 25 years.

To each their own!
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A terrible comment there somewhere:
"I think that a waterproof processor is going to revolutionize the industry. The one place our patients are not able to hear is in the water. Being able to now hear in the water is going to change their lives dramatically.”


Joan G. Hewitt, Au.D., Pediatric Audiologist at Project TALK, Inc.
and Pediatric Hearing Specialists, Inc.
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".. change their lives dramatically."
Being able to swim with the CI on is not going to accomplish that...
 
Cloggy said:
She was... and you realise this was 2008?
Nowadays, actually, since that summer, she didn't use them in the water..
But at that age, it worked perfect....
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LOL. Yes, I figured those weren't current pictures :)
 
I dont think i would risk my CI being laminated into a bag like the one in the video. I mean I'm willing to take risks. but for something that my parents took money out of their pocket for something so expensive like the CI, i wouldn't do it. I mean, honestly, to me it isn't worth it. I think it would be great to be able to go swimming with your CI on, But for now, i'm just glad that the CI's are water resistant, for now. There are going to be many years until cochlear can figure out how to make the CI's waterproof. And i mean, i asked my family whose hearing what's it like underwater, being able to hear underwater, and they just said it sounds muffled, nothing too special.
 
Cloggy post #25. Not sure what is terrible about my experience of swimming which I do almost every day. Of course I have been swimming since becoming bilateral DEAF December 20, 2006. No change at all

As I am a customer of Advanced Bionics having a Harmony Cochlear Implant since July 2007 and have duly advised them of my thoughts on whether I want info on their new Neptune. Not a surprise- no comment on my above stated thoughts.
 
drphil said:
Cloggy post #25. Not sure what is terrible about my experience of swimming which I do almost every day. Of course I have been swimming since becoming bilateral DEAF December 20, 2006. No change at all

As I am a customer of Advanced Bionics having a Harmony Cochlear Implant since July 2007 and have duly advised them of my thoughts on whether I want info on their new Neptune. Not a surprise- no comment on my above stated thoughts.
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I have not made a comment about your swimming experiences.. I made a comment about a quote on the website..

I stated in post #25:
".. change their lives dramatically." Being able to swim with the CI on is not going to accomplish that...
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If that would be the case for you. I stand corrected.

The main thing about children being able to hear in the water is actually being able to communicate with them outside the water. They hop out and start running and in no way you can sign at them, let alone yell at them to stop running..
 
vallee said:
I am so afraid of damaging my CIs, I can't do it. I jumped into the pool with my ha on when I was about 12. Since then I am so worried about doing it again.
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I did that too...jumped into the pool with my HA on. That was the first and hopefully the last time I "heard" that sound. HA were all corroded inside and thus not repairable.
 
Cloggy,

I agree with you, hearing while swimming is not a game changer. It is an advantage over other implant companies but not the remarkable life changer as professed by the CI company.
 
Water skiing or snow skiing? My daughter wears hers all the time snow skiing with a helmet of course!
 
This is a big issue for me too, I love a good swim and then a soak in the hot tub at the pool or a day at the beach and don't do these things as much being deaf. I'm getting a CI soon and am very happy about AB's Neptune, will definitely be choosing that.
 
xunixan said:
This is a big issue for me too, I love a good swim and then a soak in the hot tub at the pool or a day at the beach and don't do these things as much being deaf. I'm getting a CI soon and am very happy about AB's Neptune, will definitely be choosing that.
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Deafness is not a valid excuse here...
 
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