Recent content by fyborg

Yeah, I go to SJ...I know how fortunate I am to live close to SJ!

I live only fifteen minutes from the school where I get my maps...Wow, I'm lucky I don't have to fly or drive three hours!

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For some reason, the Mythbusters episode when they tackle ceiling fans cutting off people's heads popped into my mind when I saw this...;)

piles

Oh, God, not this again. "ADD like behavoir"? CIs do NOT cause ADD or mental illness, DD! We've gone over this. Moving on...Bilateral CIs look like they would help with speech, since one's getting more feedback on how they're talking, as opposed to one CI.

I always use my voice, even if I'm signing...I'm pretty used to talking.

I've always been deaf, so it's not a curse or a blessing--just part of who I am!

Finally!

Subway's too stingy when it comes to the toppings...and that stupid what's-his-face--Jared, I believe--comes on those idiotic commericals...Subway's not what it says it is.

Ah...the days when warheads were readily available...

:giggle: That would have been nice last spring...

I was seven years old when I was implanted. Before that, I wore HAs on both sides--I got some benefit from them but not enough. So I think it would have been less stressful for rehab and speech lessons if I had bilateral implants, since I was getting sound from both sides before the operation...

I believe that the Devil, as a person, does not exist. "Satan" is merely an personification of our not-so-pleasant impulses that some feel is okay to abtribute all evil to. (What happened to free will?) There are no such things as ghosts...and exorcism is only a holdover from the days when...

I went to a bilateral CI forum last Friday, and the presenters showed "hard proof" that bilateral CIs improve word localization by five to ten percent. Like others have mentioned earlier in this thread, bilateral CIs improve localization--the forum cited a study by Washington University in...