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39-Year-Old Deaf Woman Hears for First Time
Yahoo ^ | 3-28-14 | Ralphie Aversa

Posted on 03/28/2014 1:54:49 PM PDT by kingattax

VIDEO AT LINK

A 39-year-old woman is hearing sound for the first time after receiving a set of cochlear implants. Joanne Milne of Gateshead in the U.K. was born deaf because of Usher syndrome. It also made her lose her sight when she was in her late-20s. She is now legally blind.

But thanks to doctors at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Milne regained one sense. About four weeks ago, she underwent surgery for cochlear implants. This past week, Milne returned to the hospital to have the implants turned on. She brought a friend, Tremayne Crossley, along to film the moment.

In the video that Crossley shot, Milne is sitting across from a hospital employee who cautions that her new sense of hearing might be overwhelming at first. As the worker begins to recite the days of the week, Milne is moved to tears. The employee also warns that everything may sound high-pitched at first, but eventually her brain will readjust and everything will sound normal.

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To: tflabo

YES...

I did not get ‘turned on’ until my implant was in for six weeks..you need to be totally healed before going for the mapping procedure.

believe me you know there is something there after the implant...I always warn the hairdresser before she shampoo’s my hair that I have ‘several bumps’ hidden up there and they are some times tender...


41 posted on 03/28/2014 5:42:40 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: haircutter
Can you describe what your hearing is like?

Rush Limbaugh says that conversations almost sound like they are computerized. And he can't hear music (at least in the sense that he used to). A song that he would recognize immediately, he can't identify.

42 posted on 03/28/2014 5:54:50 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
note to Genius... She was not brain dead...she was deaf...please learn about hearing impaired individuals..it is not fun to be deaf, but don't call us stupid...OK? thanks in advance. My first words after my cochlear implants were turned on...'OH Kathleen I can hear you' that was directed to my special Angel, my cochlear audiologist.. some one once asked me what was I hearing now that I didn't hear before or at least for a long, long time... my answer,,, rain falling on the metal roof of our house, and birds singing so beautiful on a summer day...just simple little things hearing folks take for granted... p.s. and to all you conservative haters out there, Rush Limbaugh was my inspiration for getting my implants..I could not always understand him, but read his web site daily to 'hear' what he was telling us...now I CAN LISTEN TO HIM...and still read his web!!!!♥
43 posted on 03/28/2014 6:05:32 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: haircutter

That must be a wonderful experience.


44 posted on 03/28/2014 6:07:53 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is)
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To: boop
at first my hearing was...like listening to ‘donald duck’ but that soon left, and each day and each adjustment on my mapping procedure it improved, to the point now I hear just like I use to..

and like Rush, I no longer really enjoy music, like I use to but now I think that could be an age thing too..but my hearing does not feel computerized..at least not to me..my processor I wear has four programs in in and with a remote I can change programs..
when driving, I really like program #2 as it shuts out the outside traffic noise and keeps the inside of the auto very calm for me..then I sometime like to listen to soft CD music. with my remote control I can also control volume as well..it is truly a wonderful medical miracle, next march I will qualify for an newer updated version..I'm anxious for that and look forward to even better hearing results,

45 posted on 03/28/2014 6:18:38 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: BfloGuy

Oh, for God’s sake, why don’t you take a chill pill.

She lost her sight in her 20s. Misread it. Big deal.


46 posted on 03/28/2014 6:27:35 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: kingattax

Then she heard her first rap song, then immediately asked to be deaf again.


47 posted on 03/28/2014 6:29:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Maybe that was also about the time she heard her first presidential address....


48 posted on 03/28/2014 6:33:07 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: haircutter
Thanks for the share!

Now Rush of course was a DJ in the 70s, so he knows that era's music intimately.

He said that he cannot really enjoy any "new" music, because it is really difficult to understand/grasp it.

Perhaps this has changed and he has one of the newer model cochlear implants, like yourself.

He can certainly afford the best.

I know that he only got one side implanted. I think it's because he was hoping technology would come up with something better, before he took the plunge with his opposite ear.

49 posted on 03/28/2014 7:21:00 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: boop

I believe his other ear was tested and did not respond for a bi transplant..

I felt my first one was so wonderful, that when the doctor asked me if I was ready to go for the second, I said YES instantly.
by the way when I first got turned on the audiologist called the doctor to come and join us as I was ready to HEAR...

I go yearly for a check up and go thru a total mapping and hearing test and have four processors (a back up for each year) and they are inspected and checked out...I have recharge batteries but also use throw away batteries when I travel, actually the throw away last me longer than the recharge...but they are EXPENSIVE, very expensive..so I treat them like fine jewels.

I’m so grateful to have been a chosen one, so to speak..there are only 250,000 cochlear implants in the world..that number may have grown a bit, I’m not certain...a great website is cochlear.com it is so informative for hearing impaired folks...


50 posted on 03/28/2014 7:41:33 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: haircutter

Good for you. I’m glad to hear that. Are you able to discern music unknown to you before your deafness?


51 posted on 03/28/2014 8:45:15 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: haircutter

How nice you are. Bless your heart. Is your reading comprehension any better than your hearing, Genius?


52 posted on 03/28/2014 9:12:18 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Cyber Liberty

two words to you
the same two I use when I speak of Hussein O.


53 posted on 03/29/2014 5:40:10 AM PDT by haircutter
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To: Cyber Liberty
just trying to share my experience but as usual there are just too many ‘genius's’ on FR any more...

and be careful...I'm now an old hag, so speak kindly to your elders...

have a great week end all..off to visit my ‘genius’ adult kids...

54 posted on 03/29/2014 5:43:07 AM PDT by haircutter
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To: haircutter
two words to you
the same two I use when I speak of Hussein O.

Pathetic. FU2

55 posted on 03/29/2014 8:46:06 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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