Recent content by carrigantm9636

I have a Phonak Una, too, same as your except purple. Hope that picture doesn't come out too big, but that is mine. I have audioboots connected to them, so I can listen to my MP3 player/Computer via a wire that hooks directly to the Unas. :lol: But yes, I love them!

Has anyone experienced this: you get a cold/allergies/a virus and your ability to hear takes a nosedive? :dunno: I am HoH and just in the last day or two have got a cold/allergies, and my hearing in my left ear decreased dramatically, and my right ear just a little. But I have tinnitus...

I have translucent purple with clear ear molds. And re: the person who said it was unprofessional to have colored aids-- I don't find it any less professional than colored glasses frames (my glasses are purple, to match my aids, naturallY :giggle:) or brightly colored clothing, even. I have...

Hey all, I'm recently considering transferring schools. This may or may nor include changing my original education plan as well. As it stands, if I stay at the college I'm at, I am planning on getting my BA in health care administration after 2 more years, and afterwards go for a bachelor's or...

OK, so has anyone seen the movie "The Quiet"? It's a half-lame psychological thriller/drama. Just a teen drama, really, with some intrigue and perversion thrown in for good measure. But one of the characters was listed on the description as being deaf. She signs, doesn't speak except for one...

I am technically HOH (still can hear at a moderate level in quiet environment with HAs, but with my ears how they are I don't know how long that'll last). But when I explain to people, I tell them I am Deaf. Especially hearing people. Because I noticed that when I say I am HOH they act like I...

I think if hearies can choose embryos based on whether they carry a hearing or deaf gene (as in, if they can choose hearing over deaf) then we should be able to choose deaf over hearing. This same article came up in a different forum (livejournal) the other day and I thought the contrast...

I had a hearing aid (or rather, anti-hearing aid) moment last night at my little brother's band concert. His middle school band was TERRIBLE, all squeaky etc, so I just turned my HAs off! Mom turned to me and said, "THAT IS SO NOT FAIR!" I signed to her "Hahaha" and she doesn't know sign so I...

I don't think ASL will ever die. Even if technology advances and makes deafness "obsolete", some people have deafness in their family for generations and might choose to not use the technology. Also, not everyone will afford the technology, so there will always be those "poor" (financially) deaf...

Eew, raw chicken?! Why didn't your supervisor yell at HER if he/she was standing right there? I would've gone off the handle. About missing sounds, the same is happening to me. I don't hear when things boil in the kitchen if I'm in the dining room now, not 10 feet away (small apartment). My...

In the HA/CI board there are threads for funny or touching moments when you either first used your HA/CI or something funny happened because of either one. I have had many funny sign language moments and I'm sure some of you do too. For example, when I was just getting back into using sign...

I know this post quickly turned into an argument/debate, and I don't have time to go back through all, but I wanted to say that since I can't have kids, if I ever adopted it'd be a DHH kid. Most don't get adopted because adoptive parents don't want to deal with the "extra stress" of having a...

I have purple phonak Unas, which are BTE. I love them!

I am confused, I keep looking up the Dec 8 Washington DC expo and get nothing on ASL Expo's Website, all the other one seem to have passed! I wanted to go to the DC one (it's closest and on my birthday)... anyone know if it's still on? :fingersx:

I sign both handed sometimes. I was taught that it's best to be able to use both-- what if you have something in your dominant hand and can't use it? If I am signing in a conversation I will switch back and forth from "real" signs with right hand dominant to fingerspelling with left hand...