hearingelmo

I have had a bi-lateral hearing loss since the age of twenty-five. By Christmas of 2003, my hearing loss had become so profound that communication had become very difficult. Even with the aid of two BTE hearing aids, assistive listening devices, and speech reading, trying to communicate had become very difficult. In the fall of 2004, I began investigating the cochlear implant and was evaluated at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. I was told that I qualified for implantation in "either" ear. I chose to implant my "worse" ear, which is my left one. On April 6th, I was implanted with the New Freedom, recently released by the FDA. I was activated on May 13th. I am hearing in a whole new way, and my life has completely changed! I did not think I would hear this way again "this side of Heaven"!