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Vallee: It sucks that back then, there wasn't alot of resources for hearing parents of Deaf children but by the time I came around '78, things got better. My parents was told of all 3 choices, oral, total communication, and state school for the Deaf. My parents went to an oral school and was...

I voted for sign language & speech.

I wonder if someone could tell me what brand of CI she wears from the photos ? I remember reading about this. I have the Freedom and hers doesn't look excatly like mine but it looks like it's a one of the Necleus Freedom lines? If I'm wrong, then I apologize!

Another CI moment! At my daughters soccer game - I was had my program on to program 2 & sensistivity is still set the same as when the audiologist set it for me. While people are cheering on the kids and people having converstations all around me. I could hear very clearly what this one...

Set2: I'm not sure if it had anything to do with our R ear being implanted, good question though! I didn't have the test at my one month post activation so I have nothing to compare to at this time. My audi will probably re-test me at 6 months though so hopefully my scores goes up. =] If...

LuciaDisturbed: You explained it very well, thanks sooo much!! :)

Oh man, some of the comments people posted really upsetted me. Like this one: Deaf adults who have CI are very dangerous people! They spread out myths to hearing parents that it is absolutely okay for parents to insert box in babies ears. Deaf adults should refrain from having CI until law...

Same here - I just got it today [well actually yesterday since it's 4 am now] - I don't even know how it all works so I'm a bit confused & have lotsa to play with. Right now I'm at a 12, but I've been going down to a 4-6. I can go all the way up to 20 for sensistivy and 9 for volume. Is that...

I don't know yet as I just got my sensistivy today at my 3rd mapping appt. Right now it's at a 12 w/ the volume being at a 6. She wants me to leave it like that for 4 days, using program 1 first then program 2 first at 2 days each. But I get to play around for 3 mos and tell her what works best...

That's sad. If I was in that situation. My heart would be breaking into a million pieces! Didn't he go with his wife to her CI evualtion and when she meets her surgeon? They tell the patients who are going thru the CI candidacy process that you aren't to have high hopes in case the CI doesn't...

New CI moment for me: Today at my 3rd mapping appt. I finally got to see my favorite Audiologist since she's back after having her baby, who put her Mommy in labor the day before she was supposed to activate me. lol. So obivously she missed my activation. She was sooo excited to see me and was...

I wear a CI [Freedom] on my right ear and have a hearing aid on my left but lately I've not been wearing my hearing aid. In fact, I am seriously considering getting a 2nd CI! That's how much I love my CI. :]

Could it actually be because of the # of enrollments is going down? See, I attended the state school for the Daef in my state for 2 yrs & they didn't have a football team but it is simply because the school I attended only had an erollment of about 120 kids from age 2 to 26 as we had about 10...

so tell me do you get sores with CI.. I don't know much about that.. No, I don't get sores on my ears, but that's probably casue I am used to wearing hearing aids all my life. But since I haven't worn a HA in my right ear for about 6 yrs, it felt strange and huge when the audiologist put...

I now wear a CI in my right ear & a HA in my left ear. But, I grew up wearing both HA's then for the last 6 yrs have only worn 1 HA until I got my CI on the side I couldn't wear my HA in anymore. :)

Hi all. Sorry I haven't been on here in a bit. I've had quite a few awesome CI moments. --One night, as my husband & I left our house to go pick up our daughters @ their Grandma's. I asked him "What's that I'm hearing" and he said crickets!!! I was so surprised 'cause I don't think I've...

I cheered in elementary school & high school, so that's like 5 yrs total of cheerleading & I always wore hearing aids, to all the practices & games I've attended. :) I wasn't involved in other sports so I can't answer for that, but for gym classes, I usually kept it in unless it was for...

Suzi: I apologize for being a few days late now. I had bad cramps & just had a real moody weekend, being a woman sometime sucks! ;) Deafskeptic: I think I was playing Miss Managment, Turbo Burger, Frever Frenzy, or Sally's Salon. One of those! Heh. :) Suzi: You're right, I did have...

DeafSCUBA98: Ha. My husband and I just had a convo about it last night. I told him I could hear the TV in the other room very well and he was saying he could barely even hear it. I asked him how the hell can he not? He said that maybe it's cause he is used to it, he's able to tune it out much...

My friend & I want to go to Cedar Point on the annual Deaf Awareness Day at Cedar Point, which I believe is Aug 4th or 5th. But, I realize, now that I have a CI - do I have to be careful as to avoid certain rides? If this was already discussed here, then I apologize - would someone post me the...