OT Daughter update
I have really good hearing aides. I've been wearing them for 13 years and every pair has been so much better than the ones before.
They do take a lot of getting used to. Being hearing impaired in a loud world can be a blessing. I popped mine out this afternoon at my son's swim practice.
When I don't wear them at all (I've had periods of stubbornness) I do become more removed from the world. It also impacts my family life. I will tell you that all my family members have excellent clear diction.
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HUGS... I am happy to hear your guys are doing OK. I do believe that as parents you had responsibility to do what you thought is best for your daughter. As she gets older - she can decide about herself. And anybody else - should back off. more (HUGS)
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Paul I think you and your wife have done a wonderful thing for Chloe. I also wasn't sure what the CI was but read your reply to others. It touched my heart to read about it. Y'all are giving Chloe the best of both with the implant and learning sign. There is nothing IMO more beautiful than to see someone sign. I've often thought about learning it but haven't taken the time.
For those that have anything negative to say, I'll just say read LadyTazz' reply. She said it much more PC then I would have.
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Thank you for the update Paul. I applaud you (and your wife) for taking your daughter and her needs into your heart and coming out with the best answer for her and your family. I know fully how difficult parenting and the hard decisions are, though I have never had one like this to make.
Martha 
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Paul, I am happy you are helping your kid. I am not happy about being accused of bagging you, which I was never. I was simply answering a question speaking from my deaf experience and perspective.
I am in my late 40s and I was born deaf, and times were very different back then in the 60s, no CIs, etc and I'm sure if I was much younger, I may have looked into CI.
My supervisor sometimes asks me if I consider having a CI, I say no, because I don't like hearing sounds. My hearing loss is too severe/profound that I don't think I can benefit from having a CI.
I am happy your daughter may benefit from CI and experience both worlds!
246 in Dec 2008 before banded 1/28/09 at 215 lbs, band crapped 9/09 at 170 lbs and struggled with it and regained to 203 revised to bypass on 8/1/11 and am very happy.
I appreciate this.
What was said, what was meant and how it was taken can often be completely different things. To be honest I was offended at your response and chose to just let people be entitled to your opinion.
Your comments here show that what was said and what was meant are different.
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I appreciate this.
What was said, what was meant and how it was taken can often be completely different things. To be honest I was offended at your response and chose to just let people be entitled to your opinion.
Your comments here show that what was said and what was meant are different.
Never meant to offend you at all. Never even tried to offend you and I apologize.
I am at work and what I meant to say about parents not accepting deaf kids. That was partially incomplete, so that's what I get for multi-tasking, anyway, from my experience, I have several deaf friends whose parents could not accept their deafness, (no CIs back then and still no CI) and now we are all in our 40s... their parents did not want them to learn sign language, made them learn oral skills, etc., wouldn't let them have a TTY in fear of losing lipreading and talking skills. My deaf friend who is good at lip reading, finally convinced her mom to get her a tty so we could talk on phone. Her mom finally relented seeing that she never lost her lip reading and talking skills.
I tried learning oral, but couldn't and my hometown state **** did not provide sign language, so my parents called schools in WA to see if they had sign language and they did so they moved here to WA and I learned, then finally learned to lipread. I wore hearing aids, but really hated them because it hurt my ears, and I couldn't identity sounds at all so that's why I don't think I would have benefited from CI.
Technology nowadays is really great especially for the deaf compared to 30-40 and more years ago.
246 in Dec 2008 before banded 1/28/09 at 215 lbs, band crapped 9/09 at 170 lbs and struggled with it and regained to 203 revised to bypass on 8/1/11 and am very happy.
This is all very interesting to me because my elderly mother is getting quite deaf. It sucks. Having been alive for 80+ years doesn't make hearing loss any easier than it is for someone young. Mom finally tried a hearing aid--due to family pressure--but returned it after a few days. She hated all the ambient sounds. After only a few years of progressive hearing loss, her brain had lost the ability to sort and ignore some sounds.
When you say you don't like hearing sounds, it's a bit shocking to me at first (as a hearing person), but my mother's experience gives me some understanding of how that comes to be. I imagine suddenly acquiring sound would be a huge, maybe insurmountable, adjustment.
