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Bottesini said:
:lol: Sometimes you can get a nasty ear infection from the earmold! ;)
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ha. not me. i wore my hearing mold since i was 2. i dont remember if i ever had an infection before. :p lol
 
saywhatkid said:
They might also prefer to not go under the knife, accepting the HA life. It happens all the time. There are virtually no health risks associated with HA use.
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"accepting the HA life"... So... You are going to use a HA even when it is of no use... Impressive....
Choosing to hear nothing with a HA.....

Because as long as you benefit from a HA you don't need a CI.. It's not a choice between HA or CI. it's a choice between hearing and not hearing...

But it sure sounds tough..
"not go under the knife, accepting the HA life."
Irrelevant... but sit sure sounds as if you know what you are talking about...
 
Cloggy said:
"accepting the HA life"... So... You are going to use a HA even when it is of no use... Impressive....
Choosing to hear nothing with a HA.....

Because as long as you benefit from a HA you don't need a CI.. It's not a choice between HA or CI. it's a choice between hearing and not hearing...

But it sure sounds tough..
"not go under the knife, accepting the HA life."
Irrelevant... but sit sure sounds as if you know what you are talking about...
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To be fair, when one is eligible for a CI, it doesn't mean they cannot get anything out of a hearing aid. It likely means their speech discrimination scores are very poor. Using a hearing aid even with a profound loss can help with speech reading. You are also likely still able hear environmental sounds.

I began paying attention to CIs around 2002 or so when a friend of mine got one. I was pretty clueless about them before then and had the impression they were extreme, crude, and nothing like real hearing. I figured I should probably learn more about them in case the day ever came that I lost my remaining hearing. Sure enough, 3 years later I was forced to get serious about it and do real research into it.

The thing is... I had qualified long before then, I just didn't know. The amount of hearing you have at those levels with a hearing aid can be deceptive to the user. It seems like you are hearing "everything except for high pitched sounds and consonants in speech" at least for those who shared my common slope with high frequencies impacted more severely than low frequencies.

So a choice between a CI or HA isn't necessarily a choice between hearing or not hearing, though sometimes it takes getting to that point to make you consider a CI.
 
Cloggy said:
"accepting the HA life"... So... You are going to use a HA even when it is of no use... Impressive....
Choosing to hear nothing with a HA.....
No. If HA does not help, nothing.

Because as long as you benefit from a HA you don't need a CI.. It's not a choice between HA or CI. it's a choice between hearing and not hearing... If I have to choose between CI and deafness, I choose deafness.

But it sure sounds tough..
"not go under the knife, accepting the HA life."
Irrelevant... but sit sure sounds as if you know what you are talking about...
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How else do they "install" those, duct tape?
 
TXgolfer said:
It's a pretty minor surgery really. Doc says it will be like removing a mole compared to what I have had already
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remove a mole is nothing. CI is cutting and opening the skin of the head and drill to make a hole of skull :shudder: My husband threw up a lot from it. My hub said, "one surgery for CI is enough!". He knew it is a very serious surgery and he hated it.
 
TXgolfer said:
It's a pretty minor surgery really. Doc says it will be like removing a mole compared to what I have had already
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Get the surgery, then tell us all about how it feels.

I know several people who had it. They didn't think it was minor, and it took quite a while for recovery.
 
TXgolfer said:
It's a pretty minor surgery really. Doc says it will be like removing a mole compared to what I have had already
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Bottesini said:
Get the surgery, then tell us all about how it feels.

I know several people who had it. They didn't think it was minor, and it took quite a while for recovery.
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The thing is we don't know what he has already had. Thus, we don't know what he is comparing it to.
 
Bottesini said:
Get the surgery, then tell us all about how it feels.

I know several people who had it. They didn't think it was minor, and it took quite a while for recovery.
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Jane B. said:
The thing is we don't know what he has already had. Thus, we don't know what he is comparing it to.
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That is correct, Jane.

Compared to heart surgery, a CI surgery is nothing. It's probably comparable to a tonsilectomy. Not technically difficult to perform, but, the recovery CAN be difficult for some people. Children tend to fare better than adults do.

Since you are drilling a crevice into the skull to sit the eletrodes, you must allow that bone to heal over. That is why they allow some time for the site to heal before they acitvate you. Depending on the surgeon, this can be anywhere from a few days to a month. Therefore, I can certainly understand why some wouldn't want to have it done. However, I also have an issue with bashing these parents for allowing a child to go through it. It's all about parental choice and personal choice. No one can judge someone elses' decisions for themselves OR for their child.
 
Jane B. said:
The thing is we don't know what he has already had. Thus, we don't know what he is comparing it to.
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That's ridiculous. You're totally right that we don't know what he already has had or is comparing it to, but the first statement "It's a pretty minor surgery, really." No, it absolutely isn't. Botts is right: come back when you have had yours and tell us how that was.
 
AlleyCat said:
That's ridiculous. You're totally right that we don't know what he already has had or is comparing it to, but the first statement "It's a pretty minor surgery, really." No, it absolutely isn't. Botts is right: come back when you have had yours and tell us how that was.
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Ok... I had mine. I didn't need pain pills and other than the sensation of a lot of pressure that could not be relieved, similar to flying on a plane,.. I was perfectly fine and completely back to normal with no pressure in less than a week. I was also back at work within 2 days. Yes, different people will have difference reactions.. but the FACT is CI surgery is MINOR.

However, you are free to continue to try to declare a surgery that is done on an out-patient basis with the patient going home after a few hours on the same day as major. Just know that it undermines your own intentions by showing others you don't use facts to support your arguments.
 
TXgolfer said:
It's a pretty minor surgery really. Doc says it will be like removing a mole compared to what I have had already
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sounds like your doc is a quack :Ohno:

... or you misunderstood him
 
yeah. some of them had to stay at the hospital for the overnight. some of them puked, some of them puked begged for a pain killer. so its still a major surgery.
 
BleedingPurist said:
Ok... I had mine. I didn't need pain pills and other than the sensation of a lot of pressure that could not be relieved.. I was perfectly fine and completely back to normal with no pressure in less than a week. I was also back at work within 2 days. Yes, different people will have difference reactions.. but the FACT is CI surgery is MINOR.
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I do believe you because you had the surgery, so thank you for sharing. I like your truthfulness. I don't like it when people who didn't experience something (whether it's a surgery or ANYTHING else) pretend to know how something is.

And yes, everyone has different reactions. We all read here about Angle's unfortunate reaction that took her weeks to get over, unfortunately. :( I just would never go so ridiculously far to compare this to something like tonsil surgery, sorry.

Not everybody here has a hidden agenda.
 
Frisky Feline said:
yeah. some of them had to stay at the hospital for the overnight. some of them puked, some of them puked begged for a pain killer. so its still a major surgery.
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People puke after surgery. I've puked every single time after all of me surgeries. That is due to the anesthesia.
 
BleedingPurist said:
People puke after surgery. I've puked every single time after all of me surgeries. That is due to the anesthesia.
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Yes. I had anesthesia before. I puked too from different surgery. I had no experience with CI, so Some of them said that they kept swallowing from inside the head that had liquid thingy that make them pukes within a few days later. Its normal and i still think its a major surgery to me. I saw it all. It was so scary for me. :shock:
 
AlleyCat said:
And yes, everyone has different reactions. We all read here about Angle's unfortunate reaction that took her weeks to get over, unfortunately. :( I just would never go so ridiculously far to compare this to something like tonsil surgery, sorry.

Not everybody here has a hidden agenda.
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Angie's reaction is unfortunate, but not common. Most people have surgery experiences similar to mine. People can have similar unusual reactions to other minor surgeries. It looks like she has difficulty with surgery in general, so it wasn't really unexpected with her.

It's not a fun thing to do. I said before I was extremely nervous when they wheeled me in. The sensation after the surgery wasn't fun either, but it wasn't really all that bad. In hindsight, the surgery was just a blip on the whole path and doesn't register as a traumatic experience. I was just so glad to wake up afterwards and realize it was all over. Then I promptly puked :) .
 
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