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By Sara on March 20, 2009
This looks like a really great set of listening activities - http://www.hearingjourney.com/Listening_Room/Teens_and_Adults/Listening_Gym/index.cfm?langid=1 I like the idea of being able to call a number and listen to a recording to practice using the phone. I’m glad that the professional engineering exam that I am taking will be completely done before my surgery. I have enough distractions from [...]
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| Tagged cochlear implant, listening
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By Sara on March 4, 2009
It was only a few weeks ago that my boss at work asked me what frequency an octave is. We were planning to do an acoustical test for some fire insulation and it came up in the discussion. He figured as a musician I would know. Never having studied acoustics, I didn’t, but Google did [...]
Posted in Hearing, Music
| Tagged cochlear implant, hearing aids, hybrid, Music, piano, sound frequencies
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By Sara on March 2, 2009
The drive down yesterday, Sunday 3/1, was awful! There was a severe snow storm for the 60 miles between Lynchburg and Danville, VA and we were crawling along at 25 mph seeing cars slid off the road into the ditch every half mile. I looked at the radar map as we were heading into the [...]
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| Tagged CI eval, cochlear implant, EAS, Hearing, hybrid, testing, UNC
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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 [...]
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| Tagged cochlear implant, ELS, hearing aids, listening, sound files
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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| 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 [...]
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| Tagged cochlear implant, Hearing, technology
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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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By Sara on February 13, 2009
I don’t know where to start writing about my cochlear implant journey, so I’ll just start writing and fill in the background as I feel like it. Luckily there isn’t much background yet because I’m just getting started. Wednesday I received a big package in the mail from UNC. It had a map of the hospitals [...]
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| Tagged cochlear implant, Med-El
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