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    use of device in children or not

    Okay, what do you think she sees? Just to clarify....
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    use of device in children or not

    Very sorry to prove you wrong. I grew up as the only deaf in the whole family, no deaf community and all that stuff. My parents did a great job with me, they worked their asses off with me. Hearing parents do not take the easy road.There are NO easy road when it comes to raising a deaf child...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Hey, Fragmenter I find it pretty easy, I love it, you can still listen around you while you listen to iPod, or you can just turn down the background sound and just focus on that. Pretty cool gadget lol
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    use of device in children or not

    We are proud to be deaf! As for the deaf culture, I cannot speak for that, b/c I've never been a part of it, I never knew it even existed until I started doing CI researched online a couple months ago. Not even my parents never heard of it, we're small town people, way in the mountain lol. How...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Thanks! I'll give that a try tomorrow! I think I'll love that program!
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Yup, I've been thru N.C numerous times, have tons of family there. The autosensitivity, I don't know...how can I tell? lol My audi didn't mention it to me yet I love the dry and store, I put my HA in it too. I have my CI in there now, was humid and raining today. UUggh, rainy weather is nice...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    That I'm am so looking forward to! I'm going on vacation this coming weekend, going to Nags Head, N.C. and see my first ocean and first beaches lol The car trip will be 9 hours, any suggestion on hearing better in the car? Any other suggestion relating CI would be great! Thanks!
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    I'm not too sure, on my mapping paper he printed out, it all says Ace, for each slot, he said that in about 6 month I'll be able to understand speech a lot better, no idea why, must have been because all I kept hearing was a motorcycle revving and could not make sense of anything around me...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Thanks, it was! I'm not too sure on the cps speed, I will def. ask next time, this is the first I've heard of it. I first started off with program one, and then grad. up to prog 3 now. My audie wrote this down for me, P1 for regular, P2 for louder, P3 for loudest, P4 for softest. P3 sounds the...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Thanks for the info, right now my batteries life is 1 1/2 to 2 days, so yeah that does drive me nuts sometime. A month to go for my second mapping, can't wait! I went riding on the bike trail yesterday, 14 miles, it was so awesome, because I rode through there many times before and never knew...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Thanks, R2D2 It does feels nice not to strain as much, I'm looking forward to talking with him again, even with other people. For the last few years, I just feel more shy or nervous when it came to meeting new people, for fear of making a fool of myself by saying huh-uh to the wrong thing and...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    I have good speech, 10 years worth of therapy with a speech therapist and about 15-16 years worth with my mom lol. I am doing speech therapy. I don't know what type it is, just my hun and roomies talking with me and saying words and then I hook up to the puter and listen to online news...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Updates..... Hey all, Things has been pretty great. I sat outside today and I was hearing something and could not figure it out for the longest time. Finally I got it, it was a bird, lol. Well not just a bird lol, it was a bunch of them. I sat outside for an hour just listening and...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    I already do that lol, have been for years. If it was me controlling the tv volume it would be blasting lol. I imagine so lol.
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    LOL, I think I heard the birds chirping today, I'm not too sure, lol. I was doing yard work this evening with my hun's bro (share house with hun's bro n his g/f, great way to save on finance lol) I asked him if he can hear birds and he said yeah, they chirpings, I kept picking up something, hard...
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Awesome R2D2 It is pretty weird hearing footsteps, I can even hear my hun's footstep coming up the stairs to our room and even hear that door creak! lol I love the way our door creak, drives my hun's crazy lol. I'll just stand there and open and close it just to listen lol.
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    LOL, I kept losing mine, too! Even once my own big dog grabbed it off my ear and ate it lol. That was when I was 6, scared me lol.
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Awesome, you're welcome to keep reading it on here to learn about it. You wear HA or don't? Nice to meet ya!
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    EVIDENCE of being deaf with Hearing Aid device

    Oh, I know...... How's your little doll doing? One other question, how does she do with music? I post in my thread about what music I'm listening to and any advice would be great on other types of music I should try. Stacie
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    CI soon...CI friendly only please

    Oh, I am! lol I just got turned on last week and love to compare it with hers lol.
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