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Emotional Moment Teen Hears For First Time With Cochlear Implants
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Posted on 09/18/2023 7:05:05 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose

This is the emotional moment a teen with irreversible hearing loss that she shares with her mom has her cochlear implants activated for the very first time. Katelynn Bronson, from Provo, Utah, shares a hereditary hearing loss, passed down through her mom, Jennifer. Jennifer, 38, started losing her hearing in her 20s, and after Katelynn, now 14, was born her family were worried she would start losing her hearing, too. Having passed her hearing test at birth, Katelynn began to show signs of the same condition as her mom after her first birthday, and she received her hearing aids when she turned four. Katelynn learned to read lips, but in school it was clear her hearing was getting worse, Jennifer said, so her family started looking into cochlear implants.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 1sttime; chochlear; hearing
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1 posted on 09/18/2023 7:05:05 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose
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I was really expecting more, because I have seen the reactions of others hearing sound for the first time & it was considerably more dramatic & animated than this. But she will react mor differently as time passes I’m sure. I’m happy for her though. 🙂


2 posted on 09/18/2023 7:26:03 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: foundedonpurpose

That’s amazing. It must be overwhelming for profoundly deaf people to really hear for the first time.

(I used to work with hearing impaired people, and depending on the nature of the hearing loss, many still have some bone conduction; so they can dance to the beat of the music, like the young couple at their wedding.)


3 posted on 09/18/2023 7:35:57 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: foundedonpurpose

I love these videos, and those getting their special glasses to see colors!


4 posted on 09/18/2023 7:53:10 PM PDT by loboinok (It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. -Voltaire)
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The videos are fun to watch, but I don’t think those glasses really show the colors - they somehow simulate it.

The cochlear implants transmit real sound. Takes a lot f adjustment, though.


5 posted on 09/18/2023 7:56:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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I have a sort of relative (cousin-in-law?), deaf from birth, who had those implants done; and then had them removed, as the world was far too noisy.


6 posted on 09/18/2023 8:05:41 PM PDT by Robwin ( )
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Yes. Some individuals can’t deal with the drastic change and adjustment. Life becomes entirely different.

I worked with elderly people who could never adapt even to regular hearing aids, either. Even the most modern hearing aids aren’t exactly like natural hearing and can take a lot of adjustment - adjustment of the aid itself, and on the part of the person wearing them.

We would tell people to get them when the problem first arises because it’s easier to adapt then, than waiting till later.


7 posted on 09/18/2023 8:13:14 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: foundedonpurpose

I wonder how many times Rush assisted people with hearing issues? He was so good at explaining everything in life. When his hearing started to fade, and then was gone, I know he must have assisted many others that could not afford it. I can imagine some of his donations came with a proviso that the recipient not divulge it. Or perhaps he donated anonymously to the clinic.

The fact that he could still do some impressions was amazing.

He would explain that if he heard a song that he already knew, had already heard before the cochlear implants, he would hear, experience the song as you and I hear it. His memories filled in what the implants couldn’t. New music was mostly noise to him.


8 posted on 09/18/2023 8:22:36 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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Thanks so very much for posting those comments, as I read, I recalled segments from his shows. It was great to “hear” his voice again.


9 posted on 09/18/2023 9:24:44 PM PDT by PsyCon
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To: Jamestown1630

That is my next step, I’ve had 2 Meniere’s attacks, and each one steals more of my hearing, Medicare/Tricare Life does NOT cover spouses for the surgery. Plus being 75 is against me. Noisy places are torture.


10 posted on 09/19/2023 5:18:49 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: loboinok

I still haven’t done the color thing. I’m as color blind as humanly possible.


11 posted on 09/19/2023 7:52:26 AM PDT by foundedonpurpose (Praise Hashem, for his restoration of all things! )
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I only recall a couple of clients with mild Meniere’s, so I don’t know a lot about it; though I’m sure that approaches to it have improved since my day.

I wish you the best. Even the people we served said it truly was torture.


12 posted on 09/19/2023 8:11:40 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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I don’t know if they do or not. I’ve only watched 6 or 7 of them and the reactions were always powerful. It seemed the older the individual, the more powerful the reaction.

It just makes my day to watch a baby get the implant and watch their face when it is turned on and they hear mom or dad for the first time.


13 posted on 09/19/2023 9:17:54 PM PDT by loboinok (It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. -Voltaire)
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The few I watched getting them had some pretty strong and favorable reactions that gave me the impression it was a life -changing event for them.


14 posted on 09/19/2023 9:25:12 PM PDT by loboinok (It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. -Voltaire)
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I’ve watched the videos, too; and I’m sure they are wonderful for people who have always been colorblind.

I was interested in how they work, and looked into it:

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/do-color-blindness-correcting-glasses-work


15 posted on 09/19/2023 10:12:19 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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The first attack was at 62, I woke up with a severe Vertigo attack, we have a High Rice bed, grabbed the pole and crawled to the RR, and puked. Vertigo landed me in the ER. They stopped the puking and sent me to an ENT. Top-notch testing, POS SADIST as a DR. 3 days of steroids in the left eardrum, not numbed enough. Destroyed the ear hairs. The second was caused by a loud noise at nearly 72, loud roaring and no understandable sound, and vertigo. Different ENT, same treatment, so procedures haven’t changed at all. Just a better doctor. I had Vertigo for a year after each one, still have a few on and off.

1st Dr. was a stand-alone facility like a mini St. Judes’. So not be able to sue him or I would have. You don’t shoot 3 laser holes in a person’s eardrum without the correct sedation.


16 posted on 09/20/2023 10:28:01 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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The audiologist that fitted the one I have for my right ear said she loves folks expression first time they can hear. She said kids are her favorite & she cries at their reactions.


17 posted on 09/20/2023 2:50:44 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

I remember listening to Rush after I had stopped for a couple years & remember thinking he’s going deaf by the way he spoke. Several months later, he came out about it.


18 posted on 09/20/2023 2:53:39 PM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Jamestown1630

Thank you! That helps explain how they work, and some of why the reactions varied.


19 posted on 09/20/2023 4:43:52 PM PDT by loboinok (It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. -Voltaire)
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That’s amazing. It must be overwhelming for profoundly deaf people to really hear for the first time.

Hearing sounds and words for the first time, I wonder if they understand what the words they are hearing mean?

20 posted on 09/20/2023 4:57:22 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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