Guest guest Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 Hi Sheila-- I am so sorry that I took a while to respond to your message. my history is very similar to yours. I am severely to profoundly deaf due to maternal german measles. In January of 2002, I suffered what was thought to be an infection or a virus in my left ear that rendered my wearing the left hearing aid useless as I could no longer tolerate the sounds coming from it especially the high pitched sounds. Yikes. Also at this time I experienced tititinus in that ear that absolutely drove me bananas. For 3 months I went to my hearing aid audie who tried to adjust my hearing aid so I could wear it comfortably but with no success. The ENT that I saw told me that I was not ready for a CI but my audie was friends with a CI audie said that I should look into the CI. So she called her and the rest is history. Even before I met my CI audie for the evaluation, I was put in contact with Alice who gave me her story and encouraged me to look into CI's as I was really skeptical at that time. It took me exactly 2 months from my eval to my surgery date for my first implant and I have never looked back. Yes, I am a bilateral. I got my 2nd one April of this year. I am doing excellent for a prelingually deafened adult. Please feel free to ask questions. Snoopy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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