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Jiro said:
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I like what I see.....
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Of course you would! :laugh2:
 
Frisky Feline said:
I don't blame PFH for feeling that way. My hub could have risked his job due to the CI being lost. He siad if CI is lost and he could have back up with HA but His residental hearing is GONE for good. He is out of luck. Lucky that he has an worn out CI for now while we are trying hard to deal with stupid insurnace to see if they can pay for it or not. we can't afford to pay 8 thousants. my hub admits that he likes CI but he wishes he could know about how hassles with CI for insurance purpose and know how much it costs he may have thought twice but now hes stuck that he NEEDED CI since his residental heairng is damaged by the DR. oh well.
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Thank you. Now I know how much hassle they can be. CI wouldn't be worth it for me.

You know, when I was in 3rd grade, a classmate of mine who was in 4th grade decided to go for CI. He had surgery. The CI didn't work very well for him. He said that he thought it was something else and it was not it. I personally thinks he didn't try very hard with CI. If CI had been a success with him, then maybe I would have went for CI. This was in 1987. A lot has changed. Just because it's 2011 doesn't mean I would go for CI. At least not in the present moment....
 
His hearing could have gotten worse, so the HAs he put in wouldn't do anything for him. Unless he's tested, you really can't know for sure.

I've got old hearing aids that don't work for me any more; my newer ones work fine. If I went only by the old ones, I'd say "Oh, my hearing is gone." But it's not true; there's enough residual hearing for me to use newer, better aids.

Of course you could be right and all the residual hearing might be gone, but the point is, you never know for sure unless an audi tests it.
 
posts from hell said:
I remember you whining that you couldn't keep up with school, couldnt talk to friends, etc.

I would never want anyone to be so reliant on technology to allow theirselves to get to that point.
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exactly,

Like I have said before, You CANNOT rely on your CI all the time, even if you think you hear perfectly fine in it. I mean I have 2 CI's for god sakes and I still have to rely on ASL, and an interpreter. I still lipread all the time.

If you have a hard time in school because you can't keep up with the lesson plan, talking to friends, etc. here's the problem, its not your CI's fault. Its probably you (i'm just saying here). You need to be able to go up to your teacher to ask for help or have the teacher repeat what they are saying if you do not understand anything. Or ask a friend for help. If you can't hear your friends, turn your sensitivity down and your volume up, my audi has told me that many times. If you turn your sensitivity up and your volume up, you're going to be having a hard time trying to understand people. Try that for a change. And if that doesn't work, talk to your audi and see what he/she can do for you.
 
The cochlear implants is a question that never stops popping up. I did consider getting them until I learned that what residual hearing I have left (I'm profoundly deaf) would be eradicated, that there would be a bald spot on my head, with a magnet, then I would have to in addition wear the external aid, which would interfere with so many of my activities and where would I attach it on my tango dresses? Furthermore, it would be only a slight improvement over my hearing aids. I don't like the idea of increased vulnerability from wearing a CI, I would be worrying all the time about protecting my head from any oncoming assault, I would be worrying when I go swimming which is my favourite sport and quite frankly, I already have enough stress in life without also having to worry about the cons of CIs.
And on a personal level, I do feel like CIs are an intrusion when hearing people pressure me about it. And I often get the sense they want to hear me tell them that yes, it's wonderful and when I tell them my reservation about CIs, they almost stop listening because I am not telling them what they want to hear. Most hearing people cannot imagine that people can actually be happy and perfectly ok with not hearing at all. Whether they say it or not, they do think we're deprived. It still makes me steam when I tell people I'm deaf and they apologize. What are they apologizing for? How would they feel if they told me they're gay or black and I said "Oh, I'm sorry" and walk away? I mean, what the hell? And it's things like this that remind me that it's them that has the problem with the fact I'm deaf, not me. It's them that's not willing to meet halfway whereas I spent 40 years of my life working so hard and living a very very isolated lonely life and brutally bullied in school just so I could talk to them and still they are not willing to meet me halfway or heave a big sigh if I ask them to repeat what they said.
You're right that there should be an overlap but there just isn't. Some deaf people have done extraordinarily well as ambassadors for all Deaf in that they have that social skill to overcome barriers and social awkwardness to make others very much at ease and comfortable. It would be very lovely if the hearing world would return at least a bit of the same effort to communicate with us.
And p.s. I am very opposed to CIs in babies and young kids.
 
DeafCaroline said:
The cochlear implants is a question that never stops popping up. I did consider getting them until I learned that what residual hearing I have left (I'm profoundly deaf) would be eradicated, that there would be a bald spot on my head, with a magnet, then I would have to in addition wear the external aid, which would interfere with so many of my activities and where would I attach it on my tango dresses? Furthermore, it would be only a slight improvement over my hearing aids. I don't like the idea of increased vulnerability from wearing a CI, I would be worrying all the time about protecting my head from any oncoming assault, I would be worrying when I go swimming which is my favourite sport and quite frankly, I already have enough stress in life without also having to worry about the cons of CIs.
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You do what you want. However, just for the record. One is it's not necessarily an automatic that one would lose whatever residual hearing with the CI. As a matter of fact, I've even heard of sources stating that it's actually becoming a little less common these days. Two, is that the hair would regrow on that "bald spot" and from what I've gathered from your profile picture, you have a nice set of hair. So, I don't think you'd have anything to worry about in that regard. Lastly, one can still simply wear just an external processor on one's ear with just a small wire attached to the magnet without having it necessarily attached to a pocket processor or something if that's what you're getting at? However, even on that note, you still do want you want.
 
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That's fine. To each their own. She was asking us our opinions and so I gave mine based on my own experiences. If others have benefited from CIs, then good! I am not opposed to people being happy with CIs. I just know it's not for me for a wide variety of reasons.
 
coolgirlspyer90 said:
exactly,

Like I have said before, You CANNOT rely on your CI all the time, even if you think you hear perfectly fine in it. I mean I have 2 CI's for god sakes and I still have to rely on ASL, and an interpreter. I still lipread all the time.

If you have a hard time in school because you can't keep up with the lesson plan, talking to friends, etc. here's the problem, its not your CI's fault. Its probably you (i'm just saying here). You need to be able to go up to your teacher to ask for help or have the teacher repeat what they are saying if you do not understand anything. Or ask a friend for help. If you can't hear your friends, turn your sensitivity down and your volume up, my audi has told me that many times. If you turn your sensitivity up and your volume up, you're going to be having a hard time trying to understand people. Try that for a change. And if that doesn't work, talk to your audi and see what he/she can do for you.
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I did not have the CI working at the time? I dont have any issue with CI being on, those 6 weeks without implant (and im stone deaf) i was not able to keep up cause there was absolutely no accommodation made.

With CI on, i dont have any issues in class or socially. I dont even know why you brought up the "sensitivity-volume" talk. I DID NOT have any tools for 6 weeks other than Facebook chat and notepad.
 
bbaseballboy123 said:
I did not have the CI working at the time? I dont have any issue with CI being on, those 6 weeks without implant (and im stone deaf) i was not able to keep up cause there was absolutely no accommodation made.

With CI on, i dont have any issues in class or socially. I dont even know why you brought up the "sensitivity-volume" talk. I DID NOT have any tools for 6 weeks other than Facebook chat and notepad.
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I didn't have my CI turned on until October on my right ear, and I was left with only one ear and it was hard for me to understand and I relied on an interpreter. And in band rehearsals Some of my friends learned sign language from me so that way they can communicate with me by helping me out during or after school. Maybe you could teach some ASL to your friends to help you out, i'm sure they would be more than happy to do that. Do you have an interpreter when your CI wasn't working at the time? you could have used that, or you could have a note taker or lipread while asking a friend what was going on. There are many ways to keep up with the class.
 
coolgirlspyer90 said:
I didn't have my CI turned on until October on my right ear, and I was left with only one ear and it was hard for me to understand and I relied on an interpreter. And in band rehearsals Some of my friends learned sign language from me so that way they can communicate with me by helping me out during or after school. Maybe you could teach some ASL to your friends to help you out, i'm sure they would be more than happy to do that. Do you have an interpreter when your CI wasn't working at the time? you could have used that, or you could have a note taker or lipread while asking a friend what was going on. There are many ways to keep up with the class.
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I been stone deaf since birth, had implant since 2, my life is adpated to implants. I was never taught to ASL. I was taught to rely on oral only (additionally reading lips). All of my life, I been able to hear/speak just as well as a normal person (okay not as well, but good enough).

I never needed an interpreter because I relied on my "hearing". I had a note taker (who wrote stuff down on notepads-same with friends) at the time cause I dont read lips like a pro and I dont know ASL so an interpreter would be waste of their time and money.

Living in the mainstream is basically living in an oral-only world. Almost no teacher is gonna ASL, and (realistically) kids aren't gonna give a crap if you cant speak, only ASL and thats why I am heavily reliant on implants.
 
bbaseballboy123 said:
I been stone deaf since birth, had implant since 2, my life is adpated to implants. I was never taught to ASL. I was taught to rely on oral only (additionally reading lips). All of my life, I been able to hear/speak just as well as a normal person (okay not as well, but good enough).

I never needed an interpreter because I relied on my "hearing". I had a note taker (who wrote stuff down on notepads-same with friends) at the time cause I dont read lips like a pro and I dont know ASL so an interpreter would be waste of their time and money.

Living in the mainstream is basically living in an oral-only world. Almost no teacher is gonna ASL, and (realistically) kids aren't gonna give a crap if you cant speak, only ASL and thats why I am heavily reliant on implants.
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ok well thats true, kids aren't going to give a crap about you not being able to speak... What about CART? They have a special "hearing" assistance where they record the teacher's and the class room lectures/disscussions/etc on something and then its sent to your laptop or email (not sure how that works) and you can read of what they have been talking about in class? maybe that will help you? My good friend had used that in his last year of high school and still is currently using it, he tells me he loves using it! its alot easier than using an interpreter or relying on lipreading.
 
bbaseballboy123 said:
I been stone deaf since birth, had implant since 2, my life is adpated to implants. I was never taught to ASL. I was taught to rely on oral only (additionally reading lips). All of my life, I been able to hear/speak just as well as a normal person (okay not as well, but good enough).

I never needed an interpreter because I relied on my "hearing". I had a note taker (who wrote stuff down on notepads-same with friends) at the time cause I dont read lips like a pro and I dont know ASL so an interpreter would be waste of their time and money.

Living in the mainstream is basically living in an oral-only world. Almost no teacher is gonna ASL, and (realistically) kids aren't gonna give a crap if you cant speak, only ASL and thats why I am heavily reliant on implants.
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I was mainstreamed and I can tell you this -- It was not "oral only world".
 
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