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…
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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…
CI Updates – Going bilateral!
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Today, I visited Dr. Diaz-Ordaz’s office for the express purpose of taking the steps necessary to have the other ear (left) implanted. While I originally considered the cochlear implant last year, Dr. Diaz-Ordaz and I were discussing whether to do…
Buffalo Marathon Relay – 1st Place!!
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Click here to see the Buffalo Marathon results. I don’t want to make much ado about this since Steph was suppose to be one of the runners but her hip kept her on the sidelines. Peggy, the gal on the…
CI reflections
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Not much has been happening over the past couple of weeks CI-wise. So, I thought I would take this opportunity to reflect on the past and what the CI has meant to me, thus far. To refreshen, the implant date…