Tomorrow we leave for Daytona, Florida for a week. I can’t tell you how excited I have been all day, yet tonight I feel some kinda sadness inside of me … sorta like that feeling where all you want to do is have a good cry, get it out, and feel great again. I don’t know if Read More
Archive for July, 2008
See Ya
July 31st, 2008 by Living The Questions
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame. ~William Butler Yeats When I began blogging last spring of 2007 it was as an experiment. Initially I had no idea what to Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
We Just Signed Adoption Papers!
July 31st, 2008 by I'm adopting a Deaf child with Ushers, now what?
Rebecca is now adoptively placed in our home and now we wait on our court date. I have requested an interpreter for court, we will see if I have to play the same song and dance again. It has been a long road for our little girl (who’s not so little) and I’m so excited she’s Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, SEE |
Say What Club Convention – Day Five
July 31st, 2008 by Living The Questions
This is the last in my series on conventions I attended this summer. Over this past summer I’ve come to realize how much I crave real-life interaction with other people with hearing loss. I hope to become more involved with the local HH/deaf activities in my area, as my work schedule Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
“Ellie’s Ears” Featured in AG Bell’s “Volta Voices” Magazine
July 31st, 2008 by Cochlear Implant Online
From the “Soundbites” section of the July/August 2008 issue of “Volta Voices,” the magazine of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Children’s Book Helps Explain Hearing Loss “Ellie’s Ears” is the first children’s picture book to feature a Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant |
Cochlear Implant Surgery, Part 2
July 31st, 2008 by Sudden Silence
11:50 am: I realize someone is tapping or shaking me on the shoulder and my eyes flutter open. “Wendi! Wendi!” Some nurse I don’t recognize is smiling and waving. I think I smile back…man, it’s SO hard to keep my eyes open, what is going on?! It slowly dawns on me that I’m in Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
LEMONADE FOR SALE
July 31st, 2008 by Growing Fruit
WELCOME TO MY SALE. DO YOU WANT SOME LEMONADE? WHERE ARE THE CUSTOMERS? OH HAPPY DAY!! HMMM…WHICH ONE? This one!!! For Babo’s description see below it contains idioms! I am planning a future blog where Andrew and I put together our lemonade stand. It was an excellent guided Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant |
New CI centre to be built in UK
July 31st, 2008 by At The Rim
Profoundly-deaf Finn Knaggs, six, with consultant and Ear Trust founder Chris Raine at the stone-laying ceremony. A state-of-the-art cochlear implant centre in Bradford, the first in the UK, has been officially set in stone. Hard hats were donned yesterday as the foundation stone for the Read More
Posted in Deaf |
Coil Update
July 31st, 2008 by Live*Laugh*Love*Family
Thank you to the Moms who wrote to me about changing out the coil. The quarter did the trick, and it definitely wasn’t that hard to fix. Hopefully, this has solved the problem Read More
Posted in ASL, Cochlear Implant |
No Internet? Eep.
July 31st, 2008 by dorkette: EXPOSED
It seems in our blinding excitement, we forgot to confirm whether there is a cable wired in our new apartment– (turned out there is NO cable anywhere in the apartment)… so we cannot order anything from Comcast because we cannot do a dial-up internet (two computers and a videophone??? Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf |
MRI Results
July 31st, 2008 by Life with Lucas
Dr. Kazahaya (CI ENT @ CHOP) called last week and left a message for me about Lucas’ MRI results. At first, I was mad that I chose not to answer the call (because it was a random phone number), but then I was glad to have his message on my voice mail, because I listened to it like 10 times Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Mind Blogging
July 31st, 2008 by candy
Is Blogging Therapeutic? Here’s this conversation I had with my daughter the other day as she wanted to make sure I’d promise to take her to some salon to get her nails done after she gets out of the bath. I said “sure.” She then let me know that it would be another 45 minutes before Read More
Posted in Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
Negativism and Hate are at it again…..
July 31st, 2008 by Smashing Down The Door
Here we go again….Ridor can not help himself, he must always be negative towards law enforcement… In his most recent posting, he slams police from coast to coast, hurling accusations without true facts to back them up, and supporting only one statement of his with a highly prejudicial Read More
Posted in Deaf |
AVT activites completely filled the crafting void…..
July 31st, 2008 by Loudest House on the Block
in my life. At one point in life I had a crafty, artistic side- and then I had child 1. I still managed to do a few things here and there, but by the time 2, 3, and 4 came along, I was both too tired and too busy. Today I got back in touch with my crafty side. I discovered the Hearing Journey Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid |
What Do You Need for Support– Oticon Asks Parents
July 30th, 2008 by DeafMom
If you’re a parent of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, you may want to participate in this survey developed by Oticon, a hearing aid manufacturer. Oticon wants to hear from parents and find out what is needed after a diagnosis of hearing loss to provide information and support to Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid |
Her new “Do”
July 30th, 2008 by Mikaela's Path
Lately, Mikaela will not leave the hearing aids alone. Unless I am sitting with her and occupying her with toys and redirecting her hand, she is pulling at them constantly. Even more so when she is tired. Let’s say she is in the ‘neglect-o-sphere’ (1), aka exersaucer, and I run Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
My 2nd Cochlear Implant
July 30th, 2008 by Laura's Medical Journey
My 2nd operation was shorter than the last. It was November 2000 and I had just finished my mock GCSEs I knew the routine by now when it came to operations, the pre-op appointment and the tests but I never got used to the being put to sleep stage as I’d had so many and I’d hated the cannula Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
Disaster Strikes!
July 30th, 2008 by Laura's Medical Journey
6 years later I suddenly caught an ear infection which might only seem a little thing to anyone but an ear infection can be a disaster for cochlear implantees. I was given ear drops and antibiotics by my doctor Mr Raine but to no avail, the ear infection stayed. Mr Raine decided to do a few Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
My 1st Cochlear Implant
July 30th, 2008 by Laura's Medical Journey
I wasn’t born deaf, my hearing gradually deteriorated as I grew up and I had various hearing aids from hospital but they never helped. At Easter 1993 I woke up and found myself profoundly deaf when I was 8 yrs old. My parents found out about a device called a Cochlear Implant and tried to Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
An Unnecessary Trip
July 30th, 2008 by Say What?
When we made our last trip to the audiologist to pick up earmolds, two appointments were made. One for a hearing test, and the other for earmold impressions. I received appointment cards for both appointments, but foolishly never consulted them and remembered the dates (the 28th and the 7th). Read More
Posted in AVT, Hard-of-Hearing |
If You Want Me To
July 30th, 2008 by Hearing Elmo
Since I recently posted about getting my daughter, Kyersten, ready for college… I wanted to follow-up with a very special post. Kyersten is an incredible young lady. I realize I’m “her mom”, but those who know her can tell you that she is very special. I really look forward to the Read More
Posted in ASL, Cochlear Implant, Hearing Loss |
Deja’s Question
July 30th, 2008 by DBC Facts
Hi. My name is Deja, I’m Barry Sewell’s daughter. I asked my father if I could post a vlog concerning DBC and he said it was fine with him. I’m 14, going to be 15 in a matter of weeks. I’m hearing so you’ll understand that I have a hearing person’s point of Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf |
Please Face Me – And Make it a Double (part one)
July 30th, 2008 by SayWhatClub Weblog
Questions, questions. “What do you think made you start drinking?” Laundry List: - Pending divorce and expected result: bankruptcy - Looming debts rivaling the national budget - Loss of driving ability from sporadic bouts of vertigo (fear factor) - Tinnitus - Hearing loss “What – Read More
Posted in Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Pray
July 29th, 2008 by Impaired but Empowered
Yesterday Mrs.Alaka Hudlikar talked about the word pray and everything attached to this word.I have spoken to Prisha about praying and our Gods, but I realised I needed to talk about other religions as well.So the class was about the class name ” religion” and the religions are Read More
Posted in AVT, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
The ASL-Illiteracy Aftershock!
July 29th, 2008 by The Orange Deafie
We Southlanders been rattled big time this morning with the subterranean rumbler below Chino Hills. But, by the afternoon has passed, I get a lot of communications from deaf people. This wasn’t about the quake, it was about the coffee settlement, big enough to picture an interesting Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf |
Much Better
July 29th, 2008 by Kohler Five
The hearing aid vs. teether war might be coming to an end with the glorious help of a bonnet! Thank you to all who responded with tips and ideas, it certainly helped! It’s too hot for pilot caps, but not for bonnets! Today we had another excellent meeting with Lisa and Jacque at Sunshine Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant |
CART Versus Typewell. Does a College Have the Right to Choose?
July 29th, 2008 by About.com Deafness
I received an e-mail from a frustrated mother of a deaf college student with a challenging major. The student wants Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services but the college is… Read More
Posted in Deaf, Hearing Loss |
Mainstream or Deaf Ed
July 29th, 2008 by I'm adopting a Deaf child with Ushers, now what?
Why is it such an accomplishment for children to be mainstreamed, but when you tell someone that your child is in Deaf Ed is it looked at with pity? Why is there this push to mainstream? Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Deaf, SEE |
Cochlear Implant Surgery, Part 1
July 29th, 2008 by Sudden Silence
It’s been one week since my cochlear implant surgery, so I thought I’d honor the day by writing up the actual surgery experience. This is the kind of thing I really wanted to read before my surgery, so I hope it might help anyone who might be considering this surgery and wonders what it’s Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Late-Deafened |
“Did you really just say that?” and other horror stories
July 29th, 2008 by Tania Says
I stumbled upon this article today on DiversityInc (literally stumbled upon – it’s my new fave internet toy) called “7 things NEVER to say to people with Disabilities.” One of my personal favorites is #6: “But you look so good.” 6. “But you look so good.” There is no doubt Read More
