Hi there
I was born profoundly Deaf and am fluently signer. I grew up wearing hearing aids until at 7years old and didn't understand what the vibration is. After that, decide not to wear it cos it was not useful to me and I cannot hear anything! Then I was about 12yrs old and my old teacher told me to wear my hearing aids on so i had to practise to use my voice to talk. Still it was no use to me! Later on i kept practicing lipreading and it was so hard! At 18yrs old, decide to wear my hearing aids again, and watched my ex's boyf can talk but hes deaf as well so I thought I wanted to try it again. I had to sit down and try to listen what he can talk to me. Finally! I heard his voice saying "mmmmmm" thats the word I have ever recognised! So I asked him to say again another word, saying "Hello", I even understood what he was saying to me! I was so happy that I got to understand what the sound was made!
I was so excited to hearing things, I heard a car passing went growlling then soft then gone, cat "purring" so sweetness i loved it lol! Children screaming (god, i hated that sound!) Toilet flushing, door close, and open, music, dog barking was sharpest voice! gee! one person have said to me "Hello, how are youuuuuuu" that one was the strongest then soft and the end of sentence was more weaker fade.
Then I practise how to talk with my voice talking to my ex's boyf then somehow I asked him to teach me how to use my voice often and he was happy to do that. I was happy! Later on, i lost my confident due that his mother said that I won't be able to be like hearing level! So I decide not to use my voice again due his mother thinks that I can't be like hearing world.
I met my friend, he had his cochlear implant at 12 of age and he is profoundly, and told me I have sweet and soft voice. He insist me to use my voice more and he told me the stories that he have heard. He told me that a lady was profoundly deaf at 40yrs old and she is signer, knows nothing about how to talk! She had to pay herself privately and her life have been so huge changed! Much better using her oral talking! She was sooo happy!
I asked him it is too late for me to get one? He said no and it is not too late for me! He made me thinking about it so i wanted to have one cochear implant!
I went to see a doctor that I wanted to have cochlear implant so he had to write a letter to the audiologist. I had the copy of audiology graph result to give the doctor so he can pass it to the audiologist. So I waited for one month, and I recieved a letter from audiologist saying that it declined!
The letter says that I have to be 6mths old baby that I will be candidate for cochlear implant! I knew this letter is very WRONG! I was disappointed!
I had to showed to my friend (same friend) to see what he thinks of this letter. He did the same thing saying to me, that letter was full of bullshitting and say that I can still get cochlear implant any age cos after the edvidence he saw a 40yrs old deaf lady got her cochlear implant. I know that but still im talking about age difference and I still should get one.
So i went to see a family doctor and bought a letter with me to show them. They said sorry and they had to explained to me that my brain won't be able to function those sounds and I was furious! I told them well i heard myself the cats purring, cars, people talking to me in one to one, dog woof, kids screaming, toilet flushing and etc....with my hearing aids. Told them I won't give up and I will make sure I'll follow up and get myself a cochlear implant.
I wanted to ask few question there. No bullshitting please or discrimination!
Is it possible for me to have cochlear implant at 26?
It is possible to have the cochlear at 110 dB and 120 dB?
Is it worthwhile?
I need to get lots of information so I can show it to them that I can get one. It would be great if you can give me any information that.
I was born profoundly Deaf and am fluently signer. I grew up wearing hearing aids until at 7years old and didn't understand what the vibration is. After that, decide not to wear it cos it was not useful to me and I cannot hear anything! Then I was about 12yrs old and my old teacher told me to wear my hearing aids on so i had to practise to use my voice to talk. Still it was no use to me! Later on i kept practicing lipreading and it was so hard! At 18yrs old, decide to wear my hearing aids again, and watched my ex's boyf can talk but hes deaf as well so I thought I wanted to try it again. I had to sit down and try to listen what he can talk to me. Finally! I heard his voice saying "mmmmmm" thats the word I have ever recognised! So I asked him to say again another word, saying "Hello", I even understood what he was saying to me! I was so happy that I got to understand what the sound was made!
I was so excited to hearing things, I heard a car passing went growlling then soft then gone, cat "purring" so sweetness i loved it lol! Children screaming (god, i hated that sound!) Toilet flushing, door close, and open, music, dog barking was sharpest voice! gee! one person have said to me "Hello, how are youuuuuuu" that one was the strongest then soft and the end of sentence was more weaker fade.
Then I practise how to talk with my voice talking to my ex's boyf then somehow I asked him to teach me how to use my voice often and he was happy to do that. I was happy! Later on, i lost my confident due that his mother said that I won't be able to be like hearing level! So I decide not to use my voice again due his mother thinks that I can't be like hearing world.
I met my friend, he had his cochlear implant at 12 of age and he is profoundly, and told me I have sweet and soft voice. He insist me to use my voice more and he told me the stories that he have heard. He told me that a lady was profoundly deaf at 40yrs old and she is signer, knows nothing about how to talk! She had to pay herself privately and her life have been so huge changed! Much better using her oral talking! She was sooo happy!
I asked him it is too late for me to get one? He said no and it is not too late for me! He made me thinking about it so i wanted to have one cochear implant!
I went to see a doctor that I wanted to have cochlear implant so he had to write a letter to the audiologist. I had the copy of audiology graph result to give the doctor so he can pass it to the audiologist. So I waited for one month, and I recieved a letter from audiologist saying that it declined!
The letter says that I have to be 6mths old baby that I will be candidate for cochlear implant! I knew this letter is very WRONG! I was disappointed!
I had to showed to my friend (same friend) to see what he thinks of this letter. He did the same thing saying to me, that letter was full of bullshitting and say that I can still get cochlear implant any age cos after the edvidence he saw a 40yrs old deaf lady got her cochlear implant. I know that but still im talking about age difference and I still should get one.
So i went to see a family doctor and bought a letter with me to show them. They said sorry and they had to explained to me that my brain won't be able to function those sounds and I was furious! I told them well i heard myself the cats purring, cars, people talking to me in one to one, dog woof, kids screaming, toilet flushing and etc....with my hearing aids. Told them I won't give up and I will make sure I'll follow up and get myself a cochlear implant.
I wanted to ask few question there. No bullshitting please or discrimination!
Is it possible for me to have cochlear implant at 26?
It is possible to have the cochlear at 110 dB and 120 dB?
Is it worthwhile?
I need to get lots of information so I can show it to them that I can get one. It would be great if you can give me any information that.
I knew the brain function would able to let the sounds in and recognise the vibration but I KNOW i won't able to understand the meaning of sounds. I know it will takes me long time to understand and how many patterns in this sound and what it means.
