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'Course, if you want her number, you'd do well to remember that an anesthesiologist is an MD, a doctor, and not a nurse. :lol: (Nothing against nurses, but MDs tend to be sensitive about that.)

I just got my surgery date, yippee! Looks like I'll be flying home the day after final exams end and the surgery is about a week after that. So here's the updated list:

One thing that might be useful is if the interpreter can do sign-supported oral interpreting (jasin - how well do you read lips?) and then transition towards PSE without oral, and finally to ASL. I did the first step - sign-supported oral - when I first started learning to sign, and it was...

I have one made by Zenith - don't know the model #, sorry, but it's a dual DVD/VHS player - that records the captions. (Cable plugs into the DVD player and the DVD player acts as a cable box, so it's not filtered through the TV first.)

As you know, I don't have mine yet, but I'm getting a Harmony about a month after you are. As far as the batteries, AB is working on (not released yet, but supposedly soon) a "PowerPak" as an alternative for exactly the kind of situation you're talking about. It'll take AA batteries and clip...

Right, but here's what I'm thinking. If their FM system has receivers that you can plug a regular headset into, then you can plug your FM system into that ... and it will transmit to the earplug you already have (or whatever that gizmo is called). Can the EduLink take input from an auxiliary...

The problem with the FairTax system is that it increases the tax burden of those people who spend the bulk of their income and have little or no discretionary income to save - in other words, those people who can afford it least. Fair in a sense, but it's not a tax system I want to see implemented.

Disclaimer: I am not a language teacher, but I've done a lot of language study, and a close relative is a language teacher. Fluency varies. You will, in all likelihood, never sign like a native (I say "in all likelihood" just to cover my ass - very, very, very rarely, an adult can learn to...

Gotcha. Just spitballing here, maybe you've allready thought of this, but would putting the headset on just one side work? As in, the left earpiece is over your left ear and the right one you put over the bone just above or behind your ear? I don't know enough about your hearing to know if...

As far as FM, this may not be a problem. Most FM systems, you can buy a receiver that you can plug a regular headset into (my university has that in a few classrooms, and I plug my HA into the receiver like I would my iPod). Ask about that.

Google has a ton of images: body worn hearing aid - Google Image Search

Congratulations!

I'm getting an implant in June, and I use the phone to talk to my family back home. For me, other than the lack of lip reading, it's the ideal situation: I can turn the volume up as much as I want (because the phone is plugged directly into my aid) and there's no background noise to worry...

Actually, no. Talking on the phone doesn't automatically disqualify you, and there are successful CI users who were able to talk on the phone (albeit with difficulty) before they were implanted.

There would probably be interpreters for the blind, though.

Out of curiosity, what format are you using? DivX with SRT subs seems to be relatively popular, and works well with VLC, but there are a bunch of different choices. Yup. And if you look at captions (you're from the UK, right? Americans tend to distinguish between captions on the TV, and...

a) are there any Star Trek fans around here that may be interested ? Ooh! Ooh! Me! b ) are there any Fan Films that already have subtitles and what did you think of them ? I haven't watched many Star Trek fan films, but I've seen a few Star Wars fan films with subs. It was fun -...

I don't know which Pacman is, but it's perfectly possible to say "I don't believe in God" and be agnostic. There's a difference between not believing in the sense that you don't know; and actively believing that God does not exist. (For the record, I'm an atheist, but that's a term that people...

Lily'sDad: that's exactly what I mean. Let's take our hypothetical super-borg, who has 'perfect' hearing with a CI. The risks that the soldier will have battery issues or that their CI will need repair or fall off or whatever are too high. Without the CI, they're still deaf; and the CI is not...

Don't be stupid - you, and many others, know how to work around your deafness to survive in a hearing world. A hearing person who becomes deaf doesn't! They don't have the experience and knowledge that will let them engage in these activities, whether that means lip reading, ASL, visual...