Re: questions/help...3:35PM SUNDAY California time:

[Guest guest]

Hi:

I read your posting about wanting your Mom to make an appointment for

you there in Colorado for an evaluation for a CI? That must mean your still a

minor? Is that right? How old are you?

Now to answer your question, no one can interfere with your Mother's rights

and her final choice, but what I can do here is let your Mother know a little

about it and why I did it for me.

I realize whenever we cut into the human head there are risks we may not want

for our loved ones. That also includes one's self. However, it is under the

skin and not near the brain at all. Therefore, there is little chance of

anything going wrong for your child. Also, the CI is by both Federal Law & the

FDA mandated not to be offered to any candidate who may either retain his/her

hearing with in a 3 year period of time, or someone who may benefit from

unusually strong hearing aids not on the general market. Hearing aids only

amplify your natural hearing. Therefore, if you can build a future with high

powered special hearing aids? That is of course the way to go with your child.

However, if your child is really deaf and there is no hope of that deafness

resending it's self ever. Then the CI offers your loved one the world of sound

again. No one can ever tell you how much your loved one will gain or not gain

from the surgery. Each of us are different, each of us respond differently.

Each of us choose different companies who also play a roll in how it all comes

out. For example, I went with Nucleus Cochlear Implant Company, because

they did a lot of firsts through out the world. They have been on the for front

of many wonderful inventions and their implant is titanium coated. I liked

that idea far better then plastic or meddle in my head. I really do believe you

need to spend some time with your loved one looking into all 3 companies,

talk to your CI clinic, research as much as you can before turning away from

this

once in a million chance of hearing again. It would offer your loved one the

right to once again participate in life as it was meant to be lived to it's

fullest. Even music is a big one I read all the time how CI people love to

hear music.

The laws regarding the devices are very strict and believe me, I understand

them well, because my Father sat on the Superior Bench for 36 years and my

Brother currently is practicing Law and I'm a pare legal. I do believe we know

what we are reading when we read the law. The Cochlear Implant is under very

strict & stringent laws through out this wonderful nation of ours. For anyone

under the age of 18 they are also required to set up and excite classes for

both speech pronouncement & speech it's self to be learned properly with the CI

once it is turned on for the candidate.

I'm a 55 year old Mom & Grandma. I am also legally blind. For me, the

choice was simple, either get the CI or live in both darkness & silence the rest

of my life. I opted for the better choice. To hear again even if it is just

the CI doing the hearing for me. I had my surgery this last week. Now I look

forward to hock up date on September 5, 2003, at 8:00 " AM and believe me,

I'll be very on time for that one.

You might want to read all the web sites, because that is what I did. I

spent 3 months doing nothing but CI research over and over again until Web sits

were sick to death of hearing from me.

I hope this assists you and your family in it's harder then hard choice

facing you? Remember, there is always a new way around things. They don't

cut

your skull, they don't cut anything like that. They don't cut the ear either.

You will learn all of that when you decide to sit down yourself and look

into it. Your child is very brave to go on line and ask for help in helping

you

to realize what your loved one is asking you to decide on. I wish you all

the very best and may the Good Lord above show you two the right path for you!

Please feel free to write me any time.

Thank you:

Felicity:

[Guest guest]

Yeah I'm still a minor for another month and few days.. I turn 18 next

month. Thanks for your message.

CD Meggers

From: FelciT@...

Reply-

Subject: Re: questions/help...3:35PM SUNDAY California time:

Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:35:41 EDT

Hi:

I read your posting about wanting your Mom to make an appointment for

you there in Colorado for an evaluation for a CI? That must mean your

still a

minor? Is that right? How old are you?

Now to answer your question, no one can interfere with your Mother's rights

and her final choice, but what I can do here is let your Mother know a

little

about it and why I did it for me.

I realize whenever we cut into the human head there are risks we may not

want

for our loved ones. That also includes one's self. However, it is under

the

skin and not near the brain at all. Therefore, there is little chance of

anything going wrong for your child. Also, the CI is by both Federal Law &

the

FDA mandated not to be offered to any candidate who may either retain

his/her

hearing with in a 3 year period of time, or someone who may benefit from

unusually strong hearing aids not on the general market. Hearing aids only

amplify your natural hearing. Therefore, if you can build a future with

high

powered special hearing aids? That is of course the way to go with your

child.

However, if your child is really deaf and there is no hope of that deafness

resending it's self ever. Then the CI offers your loved one the world of

sound

again. No one can ever tell you how much your loved one will gain or not

gain

from the surgery. Each of us are different, each of us respond differently.

Each of us choose different companies who also play a roll in how it all

comes

out. For example, I went with Nucleus Cochlear Implant Company, because

they did a lot of firsts through out the world. They have been on the for

front

of many wonderful inventions and their implant is titanium coated. I liked

that idea far better then plastic or meddle in my head. I really do believe

you

need to spend some time with your loved one looking into all 3 companies,

talk to your CI clinic, research as much as you can before turning away from

this

once in a million chance of hearing again. It would offer your loved one

the

right to once again participate in life as it was meant to be lived to it's

fullest. Even music is a big one I read all the time how CI people love to

hear music.

The laws regarding the devices are very strict and believe me, I understand

them well, because my Father sat on the Superior Bench for 36 years and my

Brother currently is practicing Law and I'm a pare legal. I do believe we

know

what we are reading when we read the law. The Cochlear Implant is under

very

strict & stringent laws through out this wonderful nation of ours. For

anyone

under the age of 18 they are also required to set up and excite classes for

both speech pronouncement & speech it's self to be learned properly with the

CI

once it is turned on for the candidate.

I'm a 55 year old Mom & Grandma. I am also legally blind. For me, the

choice was simple, either get the CI or live in both darkness & silence the

rest

of my life. I opted for the better choice. To hear again even if it is

just

the CI doing the hearing for me. I had my surgery this last week. Now I

look

forward to hock up date on September 5, 2003, at 8:00 " AM and believe me,

I'll be very on time for that one.

You might want to read all the web sites, because that is what I did. I

spent 3 months doing nothing but CI research over and over again until Web

sits

were sick to death of hearing from me.

I hope this assists you and your family in it's harder then hard choice

facing you? Remember, there is always a new way around things. They

don't cut

your skull, they don't cut anything like that. They don't cut the ear

either.

You will learn all of that when you decide to sit down yourself and look

into it. Your child is very brave to go on line and ask for help in

helping you

to realize what your loved one is asking you to decide on. I wish you all

the very best and may the Good Lord above show you two the right path for

you!

Please feel free to write me any time.

Thank you:

Felicity: