Posted in Cochlear Implants, Medical Visits, tagged Cochlear Implants, deafness, hearing loss on July 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Finally!! I had a tentative surgery date as of last Friday evening but I wanted to wait until this week to say anything because it still wasn’t definite then. My doctor was on vacation last week, so my surgery was set up with the hospital but he still had to confirm that the [...]
Posted in Cochlear Implants, Observations, tagged cochlear implant, cued speech, deafness, hearing loss, sign language, tty on June 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Freeze Frame
As of tomorrow, I’ve had my CI approval letter for one week. So far, I haven’t gotten any new information. It’s starting to get frustrating, but I also haven’t been pursuing it as aggressively as I could so it’s just as much my fault as the doctor’s office.
On Friday, when I got [...]
Posted in Cochlear Implants, tagged cochlear implant, deafness, hearing loss, insurance on June 20, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’m in the middle of a long post about going to Eric’s college for freshman orientation, but I had to pop in to say…my cochlear implants just got approved!!!!
Paige went out to get the mail and the letter was there. It’s kind of hard to understand (and that’s saying a lot because deciphering insurance used [...]
Posted in Cochlear Implants, Observations, tagged cochlear implant, hearing loss, tinnitus on May 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
…oh, how I miss it! I used to really enjoy just sitting in a quiet house, with the absence of sound. I’m sure there were sounds there but with my level of hearing loss, I didn’t hear them. It was just nice, peaceful and relaxing. Around here, the phenomenon of a [...]
Posted in Cochlear Implants on May 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I’m working on a long post about my CI evaluation (in short: good news, I qualify!) but in the meantime…if anyone has any insights, good or bad, to share about the CI company they went with, factors they wish they had considered or what has turned out to be the most important thing to [...]
