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From: Gerry.Grimm@p0.f15.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Gerry Grimm)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: cochlear implant
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Date: 2 Oct 90 01:04:41 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Sorry  Wayne...I already  beat George Forster as the "first"? cochlear 
implant  recipient on  Silentalk.  I've been checking in here now 
and again.  I'm pretty sure I mentioned in earlier this year.  I've 
had a Nucleus Corp. 22-channel cochlear implant  for about 3 years 
now and am  doing reasonably well  with it....certainly better than 
before (I was totally deaf for about  2 and 1/2  years).  I can 
understand most one on one conversations  now and  to some extent 
use the telephone.  Music,  unless real basic, is  pretty  much  
out but that wasn't unexpected.
 
If you or George  or anyone else would like to hear  more, drop me 
 a note....talk  to you later....
 

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