I was cleaning out my desk and I found the first and last hearing aids I ever wore. The one on the left is a Zenith Super R body aid. On the back of it, it is inscribed, the royalty…
Category: Cochlear Implants
Gotta love this dude’s creativity…..
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There is a thread on Hearing Journey, a web site that I am a member of with my CIs. We’re talking about the unique feature of my CI’s t-mic. We were specifically talking about the effects of heat and humidity…
HLAA Convention afterthought
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I spent the last four days in Washington DC. Why? It was the scene of the annual HLAA Convention. And it was my second one. HLAA stands for Hearing Loss Association of America. Most of you know that I have…
CapTel and Verizon Wireless
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As many of you know, I use a special telephone called CapTel. This phone translates voice to text and makes it easier for us hearing disabled to use the telephone. I wrote a post about it here. The other day,…
CIs and running
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I’ve been ask to do a guest blog post about wearing CIs while running. Now, I am speaking as an experienced runner rather than the casual weekend jogger. And, I have been asked to model as a runner wearing CIs.…
I do my own laundry
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Yea, I do my own laundry. Mom taught me well especially when she shipped me off to school. I resumed doing it about a year ago. Steph was complaining about the huge pile of laundry and for three people, it…
You
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You…that was precisely the subject in an email I got yesterday. And in the message body was this… *********************************************************************** Hi Sam, Read your latest blog on hearing. Very interesting. One question. If the hearing aids make everything just sound like…
How I communicate (NOT in person)…
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NOT in person is right…meaning when I am not in plain live view of you. I had to dig back into my past and I mean WAY back in my past to find that first website and the page that…
Sucking it in…
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The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan. -Exodus 16:35 It took the Israelites 40 years after their escape from slavery in Egypt,…
We are who we are…
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Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” -Matthew 19:21 On April 8th, my current contract as a Programmer Analyst…