Thought I would share with you how things are going with the CI. At the last mapping session, I had one of my old HiRes programs put back into the 3rd slot. This program is somewhat softer and not as…
Month: June 2007
21:18!
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A brand new PR – #3 for the year and #11 lifetime! AND, it blew the previous one out of the water by 35 seconds. No…I wasn’t on steroids. It was a perfect running day with an extremely fast course.…
Nice quiet Father’s Day weekend
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It looks to be a nice quiet Father’s Day weekend. Nothing is really planned except for puttering around the house and maybe do the Jog for the Jake, a traditional Father’s Day race that loops around Delaware Park. If I…
Mapping session and insurance updates
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Today, I had a mapping session to deal with some slight twitching I was experiencing. What we decided to do was lower the gain on two of the programs and made a new program with a small window so that…
“…bilateral cochlear implants have not been medically proven to be effective…”
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That is the reason my insurance company, Univera, will most likely deny authorization to cover my other ear. Nope, I am not giving up…not by all means. I don’t quit; its not an option. As far as I am concerned,…
Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Position Paper on Cochlear Implants
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Cochlear Implant Position Paper reprinted with permission from the Hearing Loss Association of America, www.hearingloss.org. Hearing Loss Association of America Cochlear implants (CI) are designed to provide a person access to acoustic information while completely bypassing the normal route of…
The Freedom Run
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My line for the Freedom Run… 29. Sam Spritzer 0:22:28 0:07:14 3/M50-54 28/M It was definitely NOT a runner’s kind of day, weather-wise…humid, mid 80s and a bearing down sun. The course which winds through the Audubon part section of…