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Try retracing your steps from the last time you had it. I sure hope it turns up!

Life is full of risks. Parents risk their child's life every time they put them in a car, let them on a bike, not to mention just being in a home is fraught with danger (read up on how many kids die from drowning in their own home!) And if you are relating the danger with meningitis - that was a...

How cool is that!! I'm finding myself noticing things like that, especially with some movies where the captioning says something, but the actor actually said something different.

I had mentioned on the "See, it does happen" thread that there is still misinformation about cochlear implants being disseminated, which is both sad and ignorant, when you consider the medium being used - if somebody wanted to learn all they would have to do is do a little online research...

It doesn't help that there is still a lot of misinformation being put out about CI's - there are still people who think a CI is nothing more than a glorified HA and all it does is amplify sound, or that children with CI's can not acquire language, ever.

deafdyke - if the "newest and best technology" was the clincher for getting somebody a CI...don't you think they'd turn to HA's instead, as there is much more advancement going on with HA's than CI's - and there are many more companies making HA's too. The HA's that they have available today...

Exactly - you don't see it HERE....but if you read other websites, and /or blogs you often see it claimed by those who don't know any better that CI's are handed out to deaf babies as readily as fries are handed out at McDonald's. Most of these things are said in comments on blogs about CI's...

That's a GREAT blog, and I think its a wellspring of information for people who seem to think that parents one day hear about CI's and the next day they just walk into a hospital and then hand their deaf child over to a surgeon and say "implant him." They don't realize just what is involved in...

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I have the exact same problem with noise when I'm on the phone - if its either noisy at MY end (like you said - a vacuum) or noisy at the other end (like at my brother's house where my niece and nephew are ALWAYS yelling) I can't understand a word. I often have to ask my brother to step into...

I have viewed her vlogs and am encouraged by what I saw - a voice of REASON. Dispelling myths, encouraging understanding between all aspects of the deaf community. She advocates that the deaf community embrace those with CI's, and they in turn will be embraced. Helping dispel the fear and...

Well I think any CI doctor who recommends CI-implanted children should be denied the ability to learn sign language if that is the choice of the parents, is crazy!!! Its not THEIR call as to how a child should be raised/educated! Sounds far too much like Big Brother for my taste.

I call BS. There will always be people who CI's can't help, or who chose NOT to have CI for whatever reason. Deaf culture will endure - this is the kind of fear-mongering by ignorant people that causes the misunderstandings, and anger that we see on deaf boards where CI is concerned.

I didn't know that AB has a implant that can do that too! I have a Cochlear Freedom and that's one of the big selling points that you can have an MRI as long as you remove the magnet beforehand.

Again - nothing about his prosthetics is robotic- they're simply prosthetics...HE does the running/walking and they're assistive. Again - a person may use a robotic piece of equipment, but that doesn't make the PERSON themselves a robot. My grandmother uses an electric wheelchair to get...

well said.

I have nothing against topics being revisited, but Kalista has a record of trying to stir the pot with her posts. She's made it very obvious she's 100% against CI's and doesn't bother to do any homework before she makes a post. I mean - YOU of all people should understand that, jilio, being that...

I think my response says it all. Besides we've already discussed tasers and CI's on this forum - all she had to do was search.

Here we go again.

Yes apparently scars are an issue for some. It was mentioned on the "Why wold you not choose a CI" thread http://www.alldeaf.com/hearing-aids-cochlear-implants/46471-why-would-you-not-choose-ci-3.html#post929327 I don't make a habit of staring at the back of people's ears....I don't know...