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I enjoyed your responses! Ok, Marshall is now on P3 and I'm not sure if it's even using SmartSound technology yet. I gotta start talking with his audiologist daily via email and keep on top of his maps and how to accomodate his maps at home. I'm reading through the owners manual and I'm...

Busted! I'm too tired to B&W anyway. Have fun!

Who cares, DD? You. I want a CI just because I want to experience it before I get buried 6'-0" under ground. Like you say, mixed results... I want to see what it is like. No harm no foul.

Thanks! He got his hottie looks from his mother :) He's grumpy because he doesn't hear the same way with his hearing aids but I told him, "hard work today, easy work later". Thanks everyone!

Yep. The kid's trying really hard to not crack a smile... Things went really well today and he went through the motions of activation with flying colors. He tells me all he can hear are beeps and stuff like that and I remember somebody saying that motorcycle engine sounds happened for a...

Yeah, she's deaf. I have a deaf dad, too. I have three aunts who are deaf/HH and an uncle who is HH. I have a little sister who is deaf and is married to my childhood friend and they have a deaf daughter together. My wife is deaf and so are our kids (deaf and HH). Everybody uses sign...

*golf clap* Good for you. Anyway, Lucia, ask your surgeon how many CI operations he has under his belt. Good luck! :fingersx:

Gorgeous girl in your avatar, Tomatoes! I'm almost going through a nervous breakdown right now. In fact, this is how I've felt since my son's surgery. Maybe that contributed to how aloof I became lately but I'm just trying here! This is new terriority for our families and we're just...

I never feel OK whenever there aren't human feedback with my children. I know nothing about that stuff you talked about but I'd gladly pay more than $200 for humans to give my children feedback instead of just $200 for my kids to learn through a software on a computer. This is just an...

I had a good experience with mainstream schools probably because I had a big ego :) I didn't care what my peers thought of me and when they thought they were better than I, it made me try harder to prove them wrong. Your daughter, with hearing aids or CI, should do better than normal since...

Badass. On the day I converted, I asked my son what color he wanted his BTE to be, he wanted it to be black. My wife thought it was tacky but I difused the situation by telling everyone that it is exactly what he wants from the 3 available colors. Now that the mini BTE is out in a variety...

welcome to last year. that one is so biased and UNEDUCATED. that is all I will add to this thread.

I don't understand why Buckeye didn't start a thread on his own. He couldn't be that scared for you to hold his hands through this. We aren't cruel, right?

Awesome! I will wait for her to come back here and tell us more :ty:

Sorry, I just don't believe in participating in politics. I'd rather be golfing, fishing, four-wheeling and stuff like that. Life's too short for us to be preoccupied with trivial crap like that :) I'm sorry if that is offensive but that is how I feel and what my wife and I WILL instill in...

Hey FastPureZero, I'm DigitalDevourer. My son is 5 years old. I want a cochlear implant but am not 100% convinced for various reasons. How old is your daughter and how long has she been wearing hearing aids (if any at all)? I'm almost 26 but I still want a CI to experience as much...

Nice poem. Did the surgeon love it?

2kids1hoh, We're excited for your daughter and you can ask any one of us parents of implanted children specific questions and I'm sure none of us will hesitate to answer you! Even if it's a personal question. Dr. Jones (here) operated on my son at University of Kentucky and I was really...

I think how the society perceived hearing loss contributed a lot to the deaf people's anger towards oralism. Today, I think the world understands that there is nothing to be ashamed of hearing loss so nobody is trying to conceal hearing aids and cochlear implants. I think that it will help the...

Oh yeah, you can jump off a diving board and dive into the water just fine. My kids loves going swimming and my son kept begging me to go swimming after his CI surgery but he had to wait a week before then. In fact, the chlorine in the water helped clean dried blood and everything off his...