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Has anyone gotten the MED-EL cochlear implant?
Hearing Loss | Last Active: Jul 10 6:47am | Replies (28)Comment receiving replies
I have mixed feelings about the cochlear implant. Today, hearing aids are better than ever. Every person I know who has a cochlear implant raves about them. They are very fortunate. The problem I have is that once it is accomplished and it does not work, you cannot exchange it for another one or purchase hearing aids. You are completely Deaf. Hearing aids have improved over the years and many assistive listening devices are also available. A competent audiologist will fit your hearing loss and list the assistive listening devices available. The Hearing Loss Association of America is an excellent organization for those with hearing loss and their families. I found out there are millions of people in the USA with hearing loss, but it is an invisible disability. I have been hard of hearing all my life and I am now in the mid-eighties.
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I am fortunate in the fact that I did not get hearing aids until my 60’s. I should have probably gotten them several years earlier.
I agree that hearing aids are continuing to get better and I am encouraged that the research to regrow our hair cells is ongoing.
Hearing loss is an invisible disability in this country.
I can only hope that changes but change can only come if we demand it through the ADA. Auracast can be a great step forward if it is embraced by the business community. It can only be embraced if we push them to embrace it.
The country is only getting noisier. I notice it in restaurants and on the streets. Why restaurants feel they have to have background noise is a mystery to me. It just makes people eating there have to talk louder.
Our recent obsession with bigger and bigger SUV’s and pick up trucks is insane and after going to Europe totally unnecessary. They function very well with much smaller cars and SUV’s. What am I missing when every new model is wider and longer and many times noisier. What am I missing when I see people adding accessories to actually make their cars louder. You don’t see that in other countries.
Those of us with hearing loss have got to demand better from our country. Am I alone in feeling this way.
I welcome your comments.