Weird Little CI Moment

I doubt this happens to guys very often but ladies, do you ever find yourself in a public bathroom stall and realize someone else in the room is carrying on a conversation with you?  Man.  For me, that was always the most stressful situation I could imagine.  :S  I’d be takin’ care of business and [...]

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I’m gonna wrap myself in paper….

I can’t believe Thanksgiving is a week and a half away!  I guess winter really is on the way now.  I’m giving in and switching all my summer clothes (in my closet) out for winter clothes later today. 
I knew the holidays were approaching when I started getting emails from the Black Friday ad [...]

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The Mapping That Wasn’t

When I first got my cochlear implants activated at the end of August, I was seeing my audiologist once a week for a mapping.  A mapping is basically an adjustment of the software program in each of my implants.  In the beginning, I was mainly getting more volume at each mapping.  My brain was still [...]

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Insurance, revisited

Well, the insurance issue still isn’t officially resolved yet but I’m feeling hopeful that it will all turn out in my favor.  That’s the short update.    I thought I’d go ahead and write a more detailed, coherent explanation of insurance and how it applies to me, since we all have such different insurance [...]

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Unbelievable.

I’m too upset to go into much detail here, but I just got a letter from Aetna threatening to cancel my policy retroactively.  They suddenly decided that I either lied or omitted information on my application when I first applied for insurance in Dec. 2007.  They requested all my medical records and asked me 8 [...]

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