Cochlear Celebration 2009

Ally SD- AuD/Awareness Network Manager

        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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High Fives: 79

DebbieT-Cochlear Volunteer for Mid-Atlantic

I am so glad to be able to hear with my cochlear implant. What would we have done without computers! I have been deaf since birth but did not wear hearing aids...

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High Fives: 9

Karen K.

I was born 10 weeks premature and evidently had severe bilateral hearing loss from birth.  My mother thought I was a good baby not to wake up from all the...

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High Fives: 21

Linda D. - Cochlear Awareness Network Manager

I had normal hearing growing up and we believe a severe case of mono and high fevers triggered what became a progressive hearing loss. By age 29 I couldn't hear...

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High Fives: 39

Carol F - Cochlear Volunteer since 2003

I was a hearing person most of my life. Then one day a number of years ago, I woke up to a loud buzzing sound in my ear. I went through all of the usual testing...

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High Fives: 5

MaryH

After spending over 50 years wearing hearing aids for profound hearing loss,  I had my first implant in 2003 with the 3G in my right ear.   This was my worst...

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High Fives: 5

Kristie - CAN Volunteer

Lydia is a 5 year old female with a rare chromosome deletion.  She was diagnosed with a “sub-telemeric deletion of chromosome 1Q”.  All that means is that...

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High Fives: 8

Carol B - Cochlear Volunteer

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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High Fives: 32

KimP - CochlearVolunteer

My son was born in January 2005. The hospital did the newborn hearing screen and he passed. When Max was 12 mos. old I knew that something was not right. He was...

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High Fives: 13

gidget

I was born with normal hearing and as a child I did have several ear infections and had one set of tubes.  My hearing remained normal until my 20s where my right...

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High Fives: 6