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    Possible Future Sound Processor for Advanced Bionics’ Recipients

    You forgot to mention the technology's name- the Button processor. Advanced Bionics and Med-El wrote patents on it. One drawback of this configuration is that the microphone is located with the transmitting coil, which could impair sound pick up and compromise noise reduction systems like Beam...
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    What the...a totally implantable Cochlear Implant?

    No comments. ;) Dr. Phil is 100 % right that so far still a "long way off" to actualization. ..Decades maybe. I holded my breath on the Totally Implantable CI...and almost passed out. Do not count on this technology! Enjoy life with the CI processor. .
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    What are you thinking about? Part VI

    The Braves fans should not throw beer bottles on the field because the umpire messed up the infield fly rule. The MLB playoff series is better than one-game playoff. One bad call messed up the Atlanta Braves entire season in one game.
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    What you think ?

    It sounded like buzzing when the audiologist turned my CI on after mapping the computer. But, it gets realistic over time you're getting big benefits with the CI. .Congrats .
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    What you think ?

    Possible answer? the cochlear implant sounds "mechanical" at first. http://voices.yahoo.com/the-cochlear-implant-5153793.html .
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    For former and current Nucleus 22 users Where/what are you now?

    I'm a Nucleus 22 recipient. I upgraded to the Freedom processor in June, 2008 . The sound processing strategies in the Freedom processor is 100 times better than the Esprit 3G. My speech recognition scores increased 25 percent. I asked Cochlear about the Nucleus 5 processor? Their answer...
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    Why do some pp with profound loss have usable hearing and others don't?

    I'm not getting my hopes up too high about the Totally Implantable CI. ..I fall off the cliff. But it looks like the Envoy Medical is doing clinical trials on profound high-frequency sensorineural hearing. Profound high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss treatment with a totally...
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    Scientists have reversed inner ear deafness in gerbils.

    Don't worry. Whenever I try to get the Totally Implantable CI or stem cells cure, a big rock falls on my head. .
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    Hearing Test Anxiety

    Yes. After hearing loud beeps while hooked up to the audiologist's computer, my head starts echoing it - too. My experiment: It helps get rid of my tinnitus if I turn the CI processor's volume down from normal to the ABSOLUTE mimimum--- so that it sounds like it's almost off. (For 20...
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    10 things you shouldn't say to a deaf person

    The #11th thing you shouldn't say to a deaf person Wiki encyclopedia On October 5, 2005, the first of three recipients was implanted with Cochlear's TIKI device, a totally implantable cochlear implant, in Melbourne, Australia.[13] This was part of a research project conducted by Cochlear...
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    What's your dinner tonight?

    coffee table and red bull
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    Need help with finding Cochlear Implant Coil

    The CI Center replaced my Spectra 22 speech processor's coil free of charge when the Esprit 3G broke. Talk to the CI center. They might have spare parts left.
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    my daughters CI activation is tomorrow

    Good Luck with the CI activation. Learn ASL, too. It helps with the communication
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    Favourite TV Shows....

    Burn Notice
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    Man sets fire to home by microwaving socks, undies

    I microwaved an egg for WAY too long. It blew up like a grenade when I took it out of the microwave. I should have thrown it to my enemies ha ha .
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