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More on the Med El DUET hybrid CI and on my CI

I was going to add this to the previous post but decided to start a new one here: Hearing preservation was a goal of mine and my surgeon going into my CI surgery. We did implant the worse of my two ears, but I had a fairly significant amount of hearing in the lower frequencies. As [...]

Music and Low Frequency Hearing

Music and Low Frequency Hearing

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 [...]

First trip to UNC

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 [...]

What changed my mind about getting a CI

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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I'm a 30 year old girl originally from upstate NY. I work full time as an engineer and try to pack as many hobbies into the other 14 hours of my day as I can. I lost my hearing at age 14 and have been using hearing aids since then. In April 2009 I received my first cochlear implant. That went really well so in December 2009 I got the second. The CIs are what prompted me to start writing publicly - but I try to cover other things as well.

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