[nfb-db] coming to HKNC

Sun Jan 19 23:20:42 UTC 2014

Hi Marsha, yes, you will, and I've been cleaning some of my old lp's and 
recording them in to the computer so that I can bring them with me to finish 
the process of getting the pops, scratches, and other noise out of them 
after I get there so I'll have something to do if I get bord, and offer them 
to any one who wants a copy.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Marsha Drenth
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:41 AM
To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-db] coming to HKNC

Gene, that is great. I guess we will see you in a couple of days.

Marsha drenth
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> On Jan 18, 2014, at 11:46 PM, "gene richburg" <gene5402 at austin.rr.com> 
> wrote:
>
> 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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