Welcome everyone! Thank you Cochlear for providing all of us with such an amazing community of friends:) So here's my story & how I got to...
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In 1989 I started having periodic severe (knee-walking, commode hugging) vertigo attacks. I was 47 years old at that time. On two occasions I went to the...
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I am an early recipient of the Nucleus 5. My surgery was on September 9, 2009 and ever since the CI was activated three weeks later my hearing experience has been...
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Hi, everyone I was born and raised in Sarasota Fl. and now live in Maryland since 1986. I have been deaf in my right ear since I was 4 yrs old I am now 39. I...
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Hi my name is Sharon I suffered from sudden onset deafness, after coming out of a coma. They say it was the Vancomycin anti-biotic that caused my deafness. I also...
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Hi, my name is Michael. I was born in Pawtucket, RI in 1968. I was born with a broken jaw (dr's error) and by the time I was three years old, my family...
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Hi! My name is Lesley. I'm currently 15 years old and a freshman in high school. I was diagnosed with a moderate-severe hearing loss when I was three and a...
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In December of 2006, at age 56, I retired from NY State as Deputy Director of Criminal Justice and was planning to continue my work as a training consultant...
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My Cochlear Implant Story is one of great joy and certainly full of amazement. In 1996 I was seriously considering disability retirement, as I was barely hanging...
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