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SharonC- Cochlear Awareness Volunteer
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 suffered Kidney Failure, Li...
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Iola
Hi everyone. I will be receiving a CI some time in 2010.  My hearing loss began about 10 years ago. Slowly it got worse and worse and then in one day in the spring of 2009, I lost a...
EllenBR
I'm Ellen, a new member of the cochlear implant community. I was diagnosed with otosclerosis at 26 years old. Now at 55, I'm excited I received the Nucleus 5 as my first implant. My loss has...
grammaK
    Although I didn't go to have my hearing tested until I was 38 years old, I now know I was not hearing what others were hearing when I was in my early 20's.      I was having s...
MargoK-Cochlear Volunteer
I am a cochlear implant old timer! I am an adopted child with no known family history. My initial hearing loss with no hearing in my left ear was detected after I was in a car accident when...
Rustycms
I have been Hearing Impaired all my life (nerve deafness, they said at the audiologist) , a teacher noticed when I was 10, because I could hear "sounds" my parents did nothing and I did ...
Paula M -Awareness Manager
Hello and welcome to the Cochlear Community! I hope you enjoy your experience here. There are a lot of wonderful people here who are willing to share their experiences with you. I grew u...
Shelley E -Cochlear Volunteer
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 nothing less then miraculou...
CathyAM
I am 53 years old and was born hard of hearing with serve loss in both ears due to my mother's exposure to German measles during her pregnancy with me. No one in my families have hearng lo...
barbw
I have had sensorineural hearing loss since childhood that has been attributed to having chicken pox and measels at a young age. I have been told all my life that hearing aids would not he...
