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It's also clear she was dependent on the CI. How freaking SAD........Cases like these are WHY those of us who are Dhh encourage bilingalism.
She would not have been in a cold dark silent world if she had been able to function WITHOUT the CI.
CI advocates miss that technology can be very disfunctional.......
Hey BleedingPurist what is the recall from Cochlear?
In the first of about 40 lawsuits filed nationally to go to trial, the jury said the company should pay $6.25 million in punitive damages alone for recklessly disregarding patient safety by continuing to sell the device after company officials knew it was leaking and defective.
Talk about GREED!
Bingo, we have a winner. This was an emotional appeal to probably an all hearing jury to feel bad for the poor little deaf girl injured and made to suffer by the big evil corp.I would let the lawyer call me anything he wanted if it meant getting 7 million. I am a whore for millions in cash
Don't read anything else into this because it's not there. This is all about a lawyer that found a case that had potential to line his pockets with a sh1tload of money
I realize it's a "sh1tload of money", but let's see if you feel the same way if you, according to the article:
"an electrical short shocked her so violently that she was thrown to the ground, vomiting and convulsing."
and
"After she was shocked two more times, the device had to be removed from her skull and replaced with a competitor's model in an open-head surgery that took more than seven hours."
and
"an ambulance had to be called because she screamed that her face was on fire and felt like it was melting."
and so on.
Sounds perfectly enjoyable.
Sounds perfectly exaggerated. The quote about the surgery is a perfect example..... It's a drama queen's retelling. So the other quotes are suspect and rely on the testimony of two vengeful parents with no other direct witnesses.
Exaggeration? Maybe u don't want to admit that CIs themselves are machines that can break down.
To date I haven't received any letter from Advanced Bionics on the Harmony model which I used since August 8, 2007. No problem at all. I read about a production problem a bit later.
aside my brother has exactly the same model I have-activated 2 years later-no problem either.
Why would I "admit" it when I've already quite clearly declared it? You are capable of picking up the nonsense in "She lived in a cold, dark, Deaf world." That kind of dramatic tripe is hanging all over that story.