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You get "used" to the way a person speaks, so the fact you had heard her say it in the past might have made it easier! Congrats - the thrill of understanding w/o looking at somebody never really goes away, even years later!

I noticed that - hope everything is alright!

I have no problem with her post, if she'd make it as addressing *herself* but when she starts saying "you", then it sounds like she's telling us that WE have to feel the same way. for example if she had instead said: that would have been fine, and along the lines of why SHE doesn't want CI's.

I still go to different areas of this forum, but there's rarely something that interests me enough to post, other than in the HA/CI threads.

If its any consolation, I suffer from an occasional migraine, and I found my CI has had absolutely no impact on the frequency of them. I still get them, but its because of what I eat, or whether I'm sick, and not my CI.

I love his writing. I have his book, and a electronic copy of "My Bionic Quest for Bolero" from Wired magazine.

Thanks for showing the original as I was trying to figure out how this was funny.

fantastic!!!!!!!!

In my case, while my HA gave me no benefit in distinguishing speech, and only minimal help when lipreading, I got the most benefit from it helping me distinguish some environmental sounds. A door closing, a car honking, a fire alarm, some music (if it was loud enough) etc. Profound doesn't mean...

The flower analogy rocks. I like Cloggy's use of b/w but in my case with HA's the B/W pic would have to be blured by a factor of 10!

I too, have some electrodes switched off. I had them re-added just to "try it" when I got remapped a couple weeks ago, and everybody sounded like they'd been breathing helium. I went back to my old setup quickly.

What a fantastic example, Highlands!!!

Wait a minute...if the warranty on a CI expires you can't ever get a new map put in it???

That is so awesome!! Congratulations.

Congrats!! I mentioned to my Audie when I saw him last week that if they start doing bilateral implants to let me know!

If it were me, I'd take it off during the ride as well (as I would my glasses) so that I wouldn't lose it, and enjoy the ride!!!

SkullChick - you can try doing what I do - I have a magnetic "write on/wipe off" board on my wall that I stick my CI to whenever I take it off, so I never misplace it.

I don't think its a case of them not being open minded, but more a case of them being afraid to contact the deaf community to help them with their sign/ASL BECAUSE of the attitudes they have either witnessed firsthand, or read about/viewed via v-logs/blogs etc.

I've actually done that with my glasses!

No its not a repost - he did make another post a while back about swimming, but this one is different. Cloggy - I have a question - was the sound muffled at all for her? I find it surprising that putting the CI in a watertight bag doesn't stop it from picking up sound!