CI Blogs

This is a work in progress! Please comment if I have information wrong.

If you would like to be added please include blog link, title, your name, which ear and when you were implanted, and the brand.

A friend of mine suggested sharing whether you had your “better” or “worse” ear implanted as well.

This page was lost and re-found thanks to the Wayback Machine!

CI Blogs

• A Cochlear Implant? “Friends, Romans & Countrymen, lend me your ears”! (Colin)
  Left implant July 2008, Right implant April 2009, Cochlear
• Bionically Yours (Tasha)
  Left implant June 2008, Advanced Bionics
• CD’s Ear Blog (CDM)
  Waiting approvals, etc
• Chronicles of a Bionic Woman (Abbie)
  Left implant August 2007, Right implant March 2009, Advanced Bionics
• CIsoundsX2 (Janet)
  Left implant December 1998, Right implant July 2008, Advanced Bionics
• Cochlear Implant Online (Rachel and Elizabeth)
  Not so much a personal blog as a place to read about other’s experiences, especially children
• Deaf Translation – Broken Without Warranty
  Implant May 2003
• Deaf Village
  A list of many blogs
• Five String Guitar (David)
  Bilateral implants in 2008
• I HEARD THAT! (Michelle)
  Right implant March 2009, Cochlear
• Just Another Cyborg (Deanna, Cyborg Queen)
  Left implant January 2008, right implant May 2008, Cochlear
• Katie-Louise’s Cochlear Implant Blog
  Left implant April 2008, Advanced Bionics
• Laurie’s Dance With Sound
  Left implant in August 2005, Right implant in January 2007, Cochlear
• Life Is About Creating Yourself (Kelly)
  Left implanted March 2009, Cochlear  — she’s still around somewhere, need to look up her new site.
• Literally Blind-Sided (Shari)
  Right implanted July 2008, Cochlear
• Living La Vida Alpo (Allison)
  Left implant April 2009, Cochlear
• Lucid Sounds, Learning to Hear Again (Erin)
  Left implant December 2008, Advanced Bionics
• Metal Postcard (Jeff)
  Left implant December 2007, Advanced Bionics
• Michael Chorost’s Blog
  Left implant September 2001, right implant January 2008, Advanced Bionics
• My Journey To A Cochlear Implant (Lauren)
  Right implant November 2008, Left implant April 2009, Med-El
• Nabeel’s Cochlear Implant Journey
  Right implant April 2009, Cochlear
• Not Listening (Dan)
  Right implant March 2009, Cochlear
• Show Of Hands (Katie)
  Blog about the ASL Performing Arts Community, author had Right implant 1991, Left implant 2008
• Silent Sail (Charlotte)
  Right implant July 2008, Cochlear
• Snared Soul (Kristi)
  Left implant 2004? Right implant 2008?
• Sound of Cochlear Implant (Vivie)
  Left implant May 2008, Cochlear
• Sudden Silence (Wendy)
  Bilateral implants, July 2008, Advanced Bionics
• Surround Sound (Jennifer)
  Right implant November 2007, Left implant August 2008, Advanced Bionics
• The Ambling Rambler (Robyn)
  First implanted 1993, reimplanted April 2009, Cochlear
• The CI Journey (David
  Right implant April 2008, Cochlear
• You hear some funny things when you are deaf (Mog)
  Waiting for dates, Med-El — she’s still around too…