[nfb-db] coming to HKNC

Sun Jan 19 04:46:15 UTC 2014

Hi Marsha, well I think everything is worked out with section8, I'm gonna do 
the recertification by mail, my cw's supervisor said I can do that, so yes, 
I am coming on the 21st, I think I'll be getting there around 4:05 pm, now, 
I don't know if that's est or central time.  My mom is coming as well for a 
tour, dars paid for a round trip plane ticket so that she could see the 
center, and partisipate in some of my classes to see what I'll be learning 
there.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Marsha Drenth
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 11:02 AM
To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Frustrated with svcreenreaders

Gene,
Did everything get worked out with your section 8 housing? Are you going to 
be coming to HK this coming week?

Marsha drenth
Sent with my IPhone

> On Jan 4, 2014, at 3:49 PM, "gene richburg" <gene5402 at austin.rr.com> 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Catherin, and every one else, I have been looking in to getting an 
> implant my self.  The advanced bionics people have gotten me in touch with 
> one person who is pretty much blind, and he told me to that he really 
> likes his ci.  He really likes the clear voice program because he's 
> actually able to hear people over things such as blenders and mixers, the 
> kind of thing that would have been almost impossible with ha's.  He told 
> me, that at first, things sounded pretty robotic, then, as time went on, 
> it just got better, and better.  So he tells me that when things are 
> quiet, he can tell where things are, and he also told me that the cergent 
> was unable to get all the channels in to his cochlea, so that might have 
> something to do with how well he is able to do.  I also got to talk to 
> some one at the ab event that I went to last June, who told me her 
> incredible story of how she went totally deaf all of a sudden with out 
> warning when she was 17.  She's now 61, and she got her ci, and the audi 
> told her that he had a meeting to go to, and to set her processor on the 
> music program, so she could try to listen to her iPod.  So, she did that, 
> and she said she isn't the kind of person that usually cries, but she said 
> that when she heard music that she use to listen to before she went deaf, 
> she just broke down.  Then she tried learning to listening to speech, so 
> she got this children's story book, and the tape that went with it, and 
> she said that for about two weeks, everything just sound like mo, mo, moa 
> momo, until one day, she turned it on, and she heard, this is the story of 
> snow white, and the 7 dwarfs, and then everything after that was just 
> jumbled again.  So, she rewound the tape and tried it again, this time, 
> she heard a little more, and so that's what she did to get her through 
> that, eventually she learned how to listen. Then, she decided to try the 
> phone, so she decided to call her x husband's office, because she new that 
> no one was ever there, and that there would be an answering machine, well, 
> she found out later, that she called it 17 times, before she was able to 
> understand every word.  Now, here's the most magical part.  Then, she 
> decided to call her daughter, now, her daughter had never heard her speak 
> before, so get ready for this one.  So she called her daughter, and when 
> her daughter said hello, her mom said, Tarra, this is mom, and Tarra said, 
> a, mom?  So, Tarra wasn't sure she wasn't dreaming, so she made her mom 
> repeat everything Tarra said to make sure that it was really real, and 
> when they got off the phone, Tarra passed out.  Now, is that somethen or 
> what?  This lady, deb, also told me that there are two different types of 
> implants, there is the advanced bionics, and just the regular one, don't 
> know what that one is called, but with the ab one, you get an 85 db sound 
> window, where as with the regular one only 45.  She's also a ginny pig for 
> these implants, so she has implants for both kinds, she said that when she 
> listened to music with the regular one, she could not hear the soft sounds 
> period, they simply didn't exist, but with the ab one, she could hear 
> everything.  She al so said, that the difference in the two implants, is 
> that the regular one has only one electrode, and that serves the power 
> source and channel for it, so it sounds like it only has one channel. 
> Now, the ab one, has 16 electrodes, and 16 channels, but you have to make 
> sure that the clenic you go to is able to do the advanced bionics, as some 
> only do the other one, because the ab is more complecated.  I've also ben 
> told I would not be able to follow music that I've never heard before by 
> the audiologist that tested me, but Deb was telling me that she's able to 
> listen to, and follow songs she's never heard before.  I guess what it all 
> comes down to, is how well the brain is able to adapt, and how much work, 
> time, and energy a person puts in to it.  So, have any of you on this list 
> that have implants, are you able to tell the difference between 
> purpendicular, and parallel traffic?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catherine Miller
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 11:43 AM
> To: nfb-db at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfb-db] Frustrated with svcreenreaders
>
> April, have you considered cochlear implantation?  I got my first one, and 
> it changed my life for the better.  A year later I got my second one. 
> Blind people get priority on the waiting list.  Check to see if you're 
> eligible; you've got nothing to lose.  Risk these days is so minimized 
> compared to how it was before.  They're being done every day in amazing 
> numbers, and surgeons are more skillful; plus surgical instruments are so 
> much more developed.  Cochlear implantation is not for everyone; but 
> non-ASL DB need to investigate for sure!  Cathy Miller
>
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