Week 2 was also successful! The homework load has increased, and there has been an annoying amount of “busy-work” but it has certainly been bearable. It was pretty uneventful (except for a bunch of other sophomores unofficially declared on Tuesday “Scrub Day” which I find Read More
Author Archive
Hearing Loss, Confidence, and my Second Week of School
September 4th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
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Sophomore Year- Week 1
August 30th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
So far, everything has been pretty good and my teachers have been wonderful (knock on wood). We’ve watched a few movies, and every time they have either been captioned (knock on wood), or the teacher has told me in advance and worked out how I will get the information. My hearing has been Read More
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Guest Post by Joey of BTaC
August 26th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
The following is a guest post by Joey from BigTeethAndClouds.com. If you would like to write a guest post, please contact me with your idea. At this time, I am not interested in guest posts for advertising or those that are specifically about a technology that I do not/have not used. Read More
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A long way to go
August 21st, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
A few days ago, I was at a good friend’s house with a group of girls. I’m close with some of them, but there were a couple who I was friends with when I was younger but haven’t talked to very much in recent years. I was discussing how I was taking my driver’s test the Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss |
Alarming rate of teen hearing loss
August 19th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
I figure most of you have heard this by now, but being a teen I think it alarms me that much more to consider the number of friends that I have who will likely require hearing assistance when they are older. So, I’m posting this for those who already haven’t already heard…1 in 5 Read More
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A little bit of everything
August 17th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Full disclosure: For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been feeling burnt out and tired of the hearing loss “world”, and felt like I had nothing left to give or receive. I was all but ready to take a break, but just today had some exciting hearing related things occur Read More
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The Remote
August 8th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
The Nucleus 5 CP810 processor comes with a remote. It certainly seems to be one of those love it or hate it sort of things. I don’t think it should be a deciding factor in choosing an implant/processor, but I can’t say how many times I’ve heard “You should get brand X Read More
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Lipreading Fail: A Frightening “deaf moment”
August 2nd, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
After a long day of SAT classes and a night of getting engrossed in the latest novel I was reading, I finally fell into a deep sleep late that night. I slept soundly, dreaming of puppies and butterflies.. *shake, shake* I rubbed my eyes. Why was someone awaking my slumber at this unearthly hour Read More
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Comfortable Kinds of Hearing Aids
July 30th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
The following is a guest post from a hearing aid center employee. If you would like to write a guest post, write a comment or send an email to pinklam94 ‘at’ yahoo ‘dot’com (replacing at and dot with the respective symbols). I will be back to writing some posts of my Read More
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The GED of IEPs- A Guest Post
July 21st, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
The following is a guest blog post, as written by “Moxy”, a fellow teenage girl with hearing loss. I’m sure she would greatly appreciate any comments! Are you interested in writing a guest blog post? Post a comment or email me with the topic you would like to write about, and I Read More
Posted in Advocacy, Cochlear Implant |
Comedy, Deafness, and Political Correctness
July 16th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
One thing that I’ve increasingly noticed on the internet is the argument of political correctness. Not only in terms of names used to describe people (hearing-impaired vs. deaf vs. hard-of-hearing), but also in terms of joking- what’s okay, what isn’t. I do think part of it is Read More
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AG Bell (2)- Friday Afternoon and Evening
July 12th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
On Friday afternoon, we were given the options to listen to listen to some of the speakers. They gave us a list of sessions that they though might be interesting to teens, and we signed up for the ones we wanted to go to. I went to three and they were all very good. Here is a brief summary of Read More
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Orlando/AG Bell (1)- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
July 3rd, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
I’m baaack! I thought you guys would like a short summary of each things we did, from a teen attendee perspective. The convention didn’t officially start until Friday, so we spent the first two days there exploring Disney. On Wednesday evening, we went to Magic Kingdom. I’m not Read More
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Brace Yourself
June 22nd, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Tomorrow I leave for Orlando to go to AG Bell’s biennial convention.I’m really looking forward to meeting up with old friends, as well as making some new ones. I haven’t heard of many other bloggers/readers coming to the convention (sounds like everyone is still Read More
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FDA Approves Rechargeable Batteries for the N5
June 15th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
I just received an email from my audiologist that the FDA has approved the rechargeable batteries for the Nucleus 5 processor. Here are some of the details: Cochlear will begin shipping rechargeable batteries starting this upcoming Monday to current Nucleus 5 recipients. People who already have Read More
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Defying Science
June 5th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
So, there’s a slight bit of controversy over the effects of having two cochlear implants versus just one plus a hearing aid. I personally believe that they both have their pros and cons, but my own experience has led me to believe that it’s much easier conversing in background noise Read More
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a big mush of information
May 30th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Remember how I said that I’m occasionally indecisive?Well, I wasn’t lying! I still have an announcement, just not the original one that I had planned. So, recently I had time to do some reflecting. And, the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like the right choice. I’m Read More
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Free Batteries, News
May 18th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
A reader of this blog who I’ve become pretty good friends with shared some links with me about free hearing aid batteries. I thought I’d pass them along to anyone who may be interested. *Disclaimer* I have never used, nor do I endorse any of the websites mentioned for free batteries. Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Education, Hard-of-Hearing |
Why yes, I am bragging
May 1st, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Do you ever have those weeks where it seems like nothing is going your way? And you just want to go sit in a corner and cry?Well that’s how this past week was for me. And the week before that. I don’t want to go into a long rant about it, but there were a lot of things that I Read More
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Announcement….and a contest?
April 26th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
First and foremost… DeafTeens.org is up and ready for viewing! Take a look around. I can assure you that many hours of planning and perfecting went into this website. The other thing that I wanted to share with you all is that Phonak is having a contest for FM users under the age of 19. Read More
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Never a Dull Moment
April 19th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
This post was written about a week ago… If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ve probably noticed that whenever I get myself in a sticky situation, my dog is there. I’m sure there are some people out there who, from reading these posts, think I spend too Read More
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A Year with Two Ears
April 3rd, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Yup, that’s right. I’ve been bilateral for a year, and what a year it’s been! Rather than write an entire novel about it, (when you consider I’ve written over 70 posts in the past year), I thought I could just post some flashbacks. So, here’s a post that I posted Read More
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Spreading Awareness- That’s Just the Way We Hear
March 29th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Many of you guys have probably heard about Mel Paticoff. She’s the creator of HearingExchange Teens on Facebook and the author of Sophie’s Tales, a cute little book about Sophie, a dog who has a cochlear implant. She has several family members with hearing loss and is currently Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss |
Mmm Hmm
March 28th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Lately, my mom has been insisting that I need to go for a mapping for my CIs. I will admit, 95% of the time, she’s right and just notices before I do. But, going every two weeks kind of gets old, and my allergies are causing my hearing to fluctuate a bit, so I’d rather stretch it out Read More
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Perspectives
March 27th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
I can’t help but occasionally wonder how big of a deal my hearing loss is for the people around me. Is it something that makes people act differently around me, or do most people not give it a second thought? This week I’ve gotten some insight on that, and thought I’d share. A Read More
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Shameless Promotion/Request
March 20th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Okay, faithful readers, you always come through when I need you to. Don’t fail me now! As most of you know, I’m assisting with David’s Project and I’ve been pretty involved with the blog and Facebook page (there’s a link to it on the right hand side of this blog). I Read More
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the tinnitus that wasn’t
March 19th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
My spring break is almost over. The idea of going back to school makes me start hyperventilating (I’m only exaggerating slightly.) I think I speak for all the students and teachers of the world when I scream, “IS IT SUMMER YET?!” Anyway, I was home alone on this lovely spring Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss |
Interesting Article
March 18th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
In all honesty, I’m about to go to sleep and barely skimmed the article. The first few sentences looked promising, so I thought I’d share If I don’t find it interesting in the morning, I just may take this post down… Designing A Tool For Operations On People With Severe Read More
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Is it best to know?
March 15th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
I don’t know what caused my hearing loss. I’ve had some genetic tests, and therefore I do know that it’s not from Connexin 26 or Pendred Syndrome, which leaves roughly another million possibilities. Growing up, I always seemed to have one medical issue after another. Read More
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Nucleus System 5- My Experience
March 13th, 2010 by Cacophony to Symphony
Well, I finally got my new processors on Tuesday. When they say it takes 6-8 weeks to arrive, they’re not kidding! I did get pretty impatient, but the important thing is that they did come. Here are some pictures… *sorry for the blurry quality. These were taken Read More
