[nfb-db] coming to HKNC

Wed Jan 22 21:53:20 UTC 2014

Gene,
Too bad your mom can't come with you. But you will be well taken care of without her. 
Hopefully you will get here tomorrow. I would say bring as much warm clothing as you possibly can, its extremely cold up here. Not to mention the 10 inches of snow on the ground. 

Marsha drenth  
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> On Jan 21, 2014, at 5:24 PM, "Gene Richburg" <gene5402 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
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> Hi Marsha, oh yeah, I found that out when I went to the ap this morning, my mom put the confirmation number into the keyosk at the ticket counter, and it said the flight was canceled do to an intisipated snow storm that was suppose to blow in, and it looks like it did, so the hk people said that Thursday would be a better day, so I think that's what I'm gonna do, though the person at dars isn't very bright, so my mom's on the phone with her to try to get things straightend out cause she left off the first part of the schedule, the part when I leave Austin.  Well my mom will not be coming with me after all cause she's gotta work this weekend to make up for what she had to miss, but Molly said that she might be able to come up for a visit in the spring.
> 
> Gene
> -----Original Message----- From: Marsha Drenth
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 3:38 PM
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> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] coming to HKNC
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> Gene,
> I am assuming because of the weather, you won't be arriving today? Or atleast I hope not today. If you didn't know, there is a huge snow storm, impacting much of the east coast right now, expecting to get about 12 inches of snow. Hope your well in sunny warm Texas still...
> 
> Marsha drenth
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>> On Jan 19, 2014, at 6:20 PM, "gene richburg" <gene5402 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] coming to HKNC
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>> 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
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> -----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
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>>>> 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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