One of my interpeeps over at The Roost is hosting a sort of “year in review” picture party, and I’m joining in. The funny thing is that I don’t have any pictures before May, because I didn’t know how to download picture before May. Because I’m just that clever. So, here Read More
Archive for December, 2008
Love this…
December 31st, 2008 by Do you hear that?
Commencement Address to Clarke graduates by New York Times Bestselling Author, Josh Swiller “…Graduates, I would also like to offer another, perhaps more unusual kind of congratulations. One you might not hear in too many other places. What I would like to do is congratulate you on Read More
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December 31st, 2008 by Raging 8th Nerve
Can I Open My eyes Now? Year 8 was both good and bad; Giants winning the Super Bowl, brand new digital hearing-aids. On the sad side was losing Kim, but at least he is free of the wheelchair now. And his spirit will continue to inspire others. I been having trouble with peoples gadgets. Every Read More
Posted in Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Years End.
December 31st, 2008 by Five String Guitar
Well It would not go down as my favorite year, but certainly not one that I loathed. It was a year that came in to being in total silence in my world, but will go out with noise through a man made cochlear implanted device. It was a year where I stayed out of the “Irish Sports pages” Read More
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My Christmas and it’s sounds….
December 31st, 2008 by Silent Sail
After distressing time finding a ferry within 2 days of travel after the original ferry went bankrupt, my parents were relieved to be in UK. Over Christmas I had my parents visiting for a week well it feels much shorter than that as it seems to go by so quick. They were staying with friends. Read More
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Happy New Year
December 31st, 2008 by Please face me, I read lips
[ Happy New Year ] Originally uploaded by Đя εℓ7σв ♥ ~ The New Year is a great time to reflect. Looking through this year’s blog posts I realized I’ve learned a lot, not only about what’s happening in the world of hearing loss, but also about myself in relation to deafness. This Read More
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened |
Reflections on 2008
December 31st, 2008 by Life with Lucas
On this, the last day of 2008, I thought it appropriate to make some reflections on the year. We brought Lucas home from the hospital a year ago today! After 8 helpless days in the NICU, we could finally be together as a family for the first time. The NICU experience is one that I hope to never Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss |
Century-Old Deaf Woman
December 31st, 2008 by About.com Deafness
What better way to end the old year than with this story about a born-deaf woman turning 100 years old? (From the Middletown Press, December 29, 2008). One funny thing… Read More
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A Year in Hearing
December 31st, 2008 by Say What?
Happy New Year to My Peeps! It has been almost a year since Nolan received his hearing aids. So, here is a snapshot of his past year with full access to the world of sound! January 9, 2008: A mild-moderate loss won’t hinder this little guy. Nolan’s first-ever hearing aid fitting! Read More
Posted in AVT, Hard-of-Hearing |
Happy New Years Eve
December 31st, 2008 by Loudest House on the Block
I’ve decided since I was so bad at blogging during the Christmas holiday, I’d spend a few minutes getting everyone caught up…..in pictures (yes, I took the easy way out). Christmas morning – we were, yet again, the first family in the neighborhood awake, as best we could Read More
Posted in Cochlear Implant, Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss |
Mommy gets an ci
December 31st, 2008 by Cochlear Kids
Keeping with the Learn 2 Hear theme from the lesson of the week, I received my first ci today. My surgeons, a beautiful five year old w/a pink surgical suit/sleeper, and an very handsome (and feeling so much better) seven year old who oversought the whole operation. You’ll see the Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant |
I’m Back!
December 31st, 2008 by The Rainbow of Sounds
I was busy for all these days, I needed to catch up my college works. My switch on date was delayed to 6\1\2008 .. Which is 6 days left Dizziness and tinnitus completely went away, and there is no more pain! Also the scar has gone, and my new hair appeared ;p .. I am still waiting for MY SWITCH Read More
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Tinnitus….
December 31st, 2008 by My Journey with Advanced Bionic Cochlear Implant
Man, it was SO bad last night. I’ve had this when I had my right side turned on. I knew it was going to happen, but the funny thing about is that when it started. It SOUND like it was playing the love song from Titanic, “My heart will go on”. It was just really weird. It lasted Read More
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Welcome to Holland
December 31st, 2008 by Miles Meets World
I found this essay on a blog at Deaf Village and thought I would post it here to get more exposure. I thought it summed things up beautifully. We are often asked about Miles’ hearing aids on the playground and when we inform people of Miles’ permanent hearing impairment, there are Read More
Posted in Hearing Aid |
Actually…
December 31st, 2008 by Laura's Medical Journey
I do have one resolution! More a challenge! I am going to continue the knitted square quilt that I started in 2006! I have various bright coloured knitted plain & patterned squares in a box under my bed! Although, I don’t know if I yet have enough to finish the blanket so I may have to Read More
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Activation day #1 with left side CI
December 30th, 2008 by My Journey with Advanced Bionic Cochlear Implant
WOW, it’s different! Comparing from the first time I got activated on the right side to this time on the left side. HUGE difference! Let me back up a little bit for ya. First time activating on the right side was BEEPING sound for the first 24 hours. For every sound that I was hearing Read More
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Hold Your Tongue!
December 30th, 2008 by Cochlear Implant Online
When you’re working with a child with a language gap, the temptation is to just pour language into them like there’s no tomorrow… and the assumption is partially correct. Constant narration of daily events and stimulation in a language rich environment is crucial to helping our children Read More
Posted in AVT, Cochlear Implant |
Playing in the Snow
December 30th, 2008 by Tayten Matthew
Tayten received two new sleds for Christmas, the one below is from Uncle Jason and Auntie Carla. He asks everyday to go play on his “sleigh”. He is actually trying to say “sled”, but since we’ve yet to hear the /d/ sound, “sleigh” it is. It works! I hope Read More
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Ci knew you were infected!
December 30th, 2008 by Cochlear Kids
…at least I thought so and sure enough, when the surgeon opened him up yesterday, infection poured out…yucky stuff! One thing is for sure…we’ve outgrown the sleepers!!! I was so embarrased and had to cover those toes w/socks! lol His surgery went well, took a couple of Read More
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Today’s the Activation Day!!
December 30th, 2008 by My Journey with Advanced Bionic Cochlear Implant
Today’s the day for the left side to be activated! I was nervous but excited yesterday! NOW I’m quite excited about it! I do need to ask Brenda to adjust the volume on the right side CI as I’ve been really senstive to it since getting the left side implanted. I don’t know if it’s Read More
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Deaf Steph hits the road as a trucker
December 30th, 2008 by the DeafBlog
Steph Burns has achieved her lifelong ambition, to become a trucker. Deaf Steph, 25, sailed through her lorry test at the first attempt as the examiner used sign language and placards to give her instructions. Determined Steph feared she had failed until he scribbled “you’ve Read More
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So far so good
December 29th, 2008 by HoH Life
So far I love my ONE versata that I have…I will be getting the other one on January 5th. I am still getting used to the automatic program as I am not used to the programs sort of changing by it self. I have had many compliments on the color of my new ha’s. I am still nervous about Read More
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What We did for Christmas!!!!!!!!!!
December 29th, 2008 by Frost Times
Late Tuesday evening we heading down to Monticello! The road was bad just in one spot of the trip. Spanish Fork Canyon it was scary. We went about 40 mph through the whole canyon. After that the roads where good! We showed up around midnight. Woke up the next morning and bake all kinds of Read More
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Going From A to Z
December 29th, 2008 by Five String Guitar
After just under five hundred days on an ambitious medical recovery, I will embark on a graduated return to the world of business. As I weigh in, and wade into my once upon a time daily ritual, I will be oh so aware that I am different. I am of course a cyborg in the true sense. My cochlear Read More
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New Year’s Resolutions.
December 29th, 2008 by We Cue!
I’ve never been a big fan of New Year’s until this year. I suspect it’s because my life used to revolve around the school calendar, from September ’til June. Now that I’m in the working world, there is getting to be some meaning behind our traditional calendar year, with a “new Read More
Posted in Cued Speech |
Thoughts from John…
December 28th, 2008 by The Burdett Journey
Danice has been prompting me to make a virtual appearance here on our blog. The semester was quite hectic and although my desire to write in this venue was high, the requirement to read and write about the progressivists, traditionalists, aesthetics and praxialists were required and therefore Read More
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101 Things in 1001 days
December 28th, 2008 by Growing Fruit
I first found this idea over at Our Crazy Adventures in Autismland. I thought it sounded great! Here are my 101 Things I want to complete in 1001 days. As another blogger said, as a Christian, God can and probably will change some or all of these goals as He see’s fit. It has been fun Read More
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What day is it?!
December 28th, 2008 by Sudden Silence
The days are all blending together right now. Christmas has passed and the candle business is closed for another week; Paige is off school until January 5. There’s nothing to really define the days – I can’t even use our favorite TV shows as a guide because everything’s in re-runs Read More
Posted in Late-Deafened |
Most Important Deaf Issue in 2008?
December 28th, 2008 by About.com Deafness
What do you think was the most important issue faced by the deaf and hard of hearing community in 2008? Internet captioning? AG Bell-DBC? Problems with ordering fast food? Challenges… Read More
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5 things i’m over- 2008 version
December 28th, 2008 by good but hard
1. our nice neighbor feeding the squirrels and local feral cats. as a result of her constant snack allotment, they are basically overrunning our garden in tag-team fashion and stealing all of the seeds or leaving behind stinky reminders of their presence. 2. wasteful parkers. when you park on the Read More
