February 2009
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By Sara on February 28, 2009
I’ve been reading a lot of new blogs lately, a lot of them written by other people about their cochlear implant experiences. I love random web surfing so I don’t remember how I found most things. When I end up with a couple dozen tabs open in Firefox I try to add blogs to Google [...]
Posted in Hearing
| Tagged cochlear implant, ELS, hearing aids, listening, sound files
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By Sara on February 26, 2009
I’m now an ‘elected member’ of the band I play with. My mom summed it up best by saying that I’m no longer considered a guest. What really happen was the sax ensemble has kept me from skipping band rehearsals like I used to. It definitely makes it more fun. Band itself is still not [...]
Posted in Activities, Hearing
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By Sara on February 24, 2009
I wanted to document my reasons for not pursuing a cochlear implant before now and that was the point of my other post last week. Now I want to write about what finally changed my mind. I heard about the hybrid CIs and that they were in FDA trials. I sent an email to the trials [...]
Posted in Hearing
| Tagged cochlear implant, hybrid
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By Sara on February 23, 2009
I wrote a comment on Deaf Mom’s World this weekend about why I’m always partaking in social bluffing. Usually it’s because I think I’ll catch up to the conversation and by the time I realize I’m not going to they have moved on I something new. The most frustrating part is catching a useless phrase perfectly [...]
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By Sara on February 21, 2009
Living in Charlottesville means that I don’t get much of a real winter. Not like NY, not even like NJ. It does get cold, into the 20s sometimes even, but there isn’t a lot of snow. When it does snow it doesn’t stick around. Strangely, I am closer to a ski resort than I was when [...]
Posted in Activities
| Tagged canaan valley, skiing, WV
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By Sara on February 20, 2009
I’ve started this post twice now and it has morphed into something else… Let’s try again. There are lots of reasons to get a cochlear implant. There are also many people who will be happy to go on and on about the reasons not to get one, or more specifically why you shouldn’t get one for [...]
Posted in Hearing
| Tagged cochlear implant, Hearing, Med-El, Music, technology
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By Sara on February 18, 2009
It has been over 15 years since I lost my hearing. In 1993 I was told that a CI would not help me. That they didn’t produce very good sound and that speech comprehension with one was lower than I was getting with my hearing aids. I wasn’t that deaf. Honestly, I didn’t really think about [...]
Posted in Hearing
| Tagged cochlear implant, Hearing, technology
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By Sara on February 16, 2009
Lately I keep finding myself with songs in my head from Sunset Boulevard. It’s a musical that won Tony awards in the early to mid 1990s. The sound track is from 1994 and features Glenn Close. I listened to many, many broadway musical soundtracks when I was in high school. I generally liked the stories and [...]
Posted in Music
| Tagged broadway, lyrics, Music, musicals
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By Sara on February 16, 2009
Until I was 14 I had perfectly normal hearing. That October, it was 1993, I had a minor cold (really more like “sick of school”) and that led to a stuffy feeling and a very loud ringing in my ears. I went back to school after the weekend and things sounded very odd… a stuffy, [...]
Posted in About Me
| Tagged cochlear implant, Hearing
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