Blogs
What’s A Blog?
A web log, or blog as they are popularly called, is basically an online ongoing journal. A blog is a website on which a person records his or her thoughts on a regular, ongoing basis. The most recent entry is the first one listed, with older entries below that or in the archives. Many cochlear implant recipients are using blogs as a method to share their stories.
The following blogs are created and maintained by Bionic Ear Association Volunteers. The statements depicted are the unique experience of each individual and are not intended to be predictive or descriptive of the experiences of others.
Bilateral Blogs
| Wendi Kast
Join Wendi on her journey from sudden deafness to simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants, which she received in July 2008. Read all the details of testing, surgery, recovery, mappings and more.
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Sheila Adams
After an adult onset, gradual hearing loss affected her emotionally and vocationally, Sheila received a cochlear implant she is reconnecting with the world.
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Read about Sam's experiences with his new Bionic Ear. He is a 50-something male who was originally implanted on January 12, 2007 and went bi-lateral January 15, 2008. |
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Abbie Cranmer
(http://contradica.blogspot.com/) Read an amusing and often hysterical account of Abbie's progressive hearing loss, which led to her cochlear implants. Follow her journey and anticipation to hear sounds that she could only imagine in her once world of silence. |
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Dan Solcher (http://dan-2-ci.blogspot.com) A bilateral recipient and a prelingual deafened adult, Dan recounts new sounds that he is learning and also provides many helpful facts about topics related to hearing loss. |
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Jennifer Thorpe (http://stereophonicbionic.blogspot.com/) Jennifer is a 30-something wife and mother who is discovering new sounds every day with her first cochlear implant and is excited about the opportunity to hear in stereo (for the first time in over thirty years) with her upcoming second implant! |
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Liz Hupp
Liz is a late-deafened adult who got her first pair of hearing aids at age 33. Over the next 15 years, her loss progressed and she received a cochlear implant in March 2006. Liz went bilateral in July '08. |
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Jenifer Benner
Meet a busy scrapbooker and mom to three kids. Implanted in the summer of 2008, she's getting ready to go bilateral later this year. |
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Michael Chorost
Meet Michael, a bilateral AB recipient and author of "Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human" |
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Janet Haines
After a 20 year progressive hearing loss, Janet received her first CI in December 1998 and was thrilled to go bilateral in July of 2008. Janet is excitedly rediscovering in-stereo podcasts, radio, music and many other joys of having bilateral hearing! |
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Glenice Swenson
Glenice writes about her experiences and feelings of losing her hearing gradually over 30 years and the joys of hearing again with cochlear implants. Sometimes she just tells the story and other times the story comes out in a poem. |
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Blogs about Children
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Bionic Family Blog
Join the Bionic Family on Buddy and Melody's Journey to Hearing. And learn more fun facts about your favorite monkey family!
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The Markert Family (http://www.bionicboys.blogspot.com) Follow the trials and triumphs of a family with two children using cochlear implants. |
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Max and Claire Hawkins
Meet Max and Claire, two young children whose dad shares their cochlear implant journey, bravery and successes through laughter and tears. |
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Blogs about Teens
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Samantha Brilling
Samantha was born hard-of-hearing, used hearing aids all her life, and then recieved a cochlear implant at age 15. This teenager has great insight and it is evident that she enjoys telling her story and sharing her experiences. |
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Amanda Conde
http://www.jenniferbrunoconde.blogspot.com/ Meet a 14-year-old recipient who uses American Sign Language and became a cochlear implant recipient in the summer of 2008. Her stepmother, Jennifer, chronicles her journey. |
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Blogs about Adults
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Debbie and Steve Bottles
Meet Debbie and Steve, brother and sister, who recently celebrated their 5-year cochlear implant anniversaries. |
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George "Geo" Cobb
Meet and endurance cyclist with progressive hearing loss in both ears. Read about Geo's life and cochlear implant journey from late 2007 on.
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