One day I was taking the boys for a check-up at E.NT. with one of the doctors there at the office. Lo and behold there stood Dr.Schwaber that I was seeing at Vady clinic 20 years ago to see if I qualified for the cochlear implant.Back then they only would do the good ear and I had 40% hearing in the right ear at that time. Dr Schwaber and I talked for a few minutes, he asked when was the last time I had my ears checked. I told him that it was 2 years ago at Sha Ear clinic in Memphis,Tn and that Dr.Emmet said that I missed getting the cochlear implant by 5 point in my right ear. Dr Schwaber asked me to come in on November 18,2008 to do a quick hearing teat to see were my hearing was. John and I had a talk with Dr.Schwaber. He ask me to close my eyes and asked me to touch my nose. I did not hear him ask me to touch my nose.
Then he asked my how I felt about the cochlear implant.I told him that I never had thought about it and I had been turned down twice. He said I went you to come back to my office to do an evaluation but to first go get a cat scan on December 2,2008 and then be seen again on December 9,2008 to do a special hearing test. On December 9Th we found out that I qualified to get the cochlear implant in the left ear and that the qualification had changed and that I could get it. Then I met the audiologist Dr. Donna Schwaber that is Dr.Schwaber's wife. She talked about the cochlear implant and said that there are two brands.The one in the yellow box was the freedom and the second was in the blue box that was the Harmony. That I had to pick which one wanted. I picked the Harmony. The insurance company had given their approval December 29,2008. My boys had prayed for 3 years for this day and God as bless me to be able to get this wonderful technology.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
MY JOURNEY BEFORE THE COCHLEAR IMPLANT
I was born a hearing person.When I was three,my mom was taking the maid home for the day and a drunk driver hit her car head-on.My sister and the maid were in the back seat and I was asleep in the front seat of the car with my mom.No one but, my mom and I were injured. She had the steering wheel pinned on her chest...I rolled off the seat into the grove box.At the time of the crash there was a boy and his dad that help me out of the car and I never had a chance to thank them.My head was cut open from my right eye to the back of my right ear and I also had trauma to my head.They did not believe that I would not make it through the night.They said lo and behold the next morning I was sitting up playing with toys and they were in shock and could not believe it.At that time I had loss all the hearing in my left ear.They told us that I might go deaf in time, so as I grow up I had hearing tests to keep an eye on my hearing.I also had a bad arm and leg on the right side from the trauma to my head.I was blessed by God and given a second chance in life.
I was hearing just fine in the right ear and at the age of 28 things were good.One night I went to bed and the next morning I got up and noticed that something was wrong with my hearing. I called the doctor's office and told them what was wrong and they told me not to worry,that it may be wax in my ear and for me to come in so they could check it out.When he looked there was no wax in my ear at all and I knew that this was bad.They did a hearing test and found out that I had lost 50% overnight.The Doctor said that my nerve in my ear was getting weaker and that I would have to get a hearing aid.At that time I could hear some things but had a hard time understanding what a person was saying to me.I had to move back to Nashville to be close my brother and my sister.They set up for me to meet a Dr.Schwaber at vady about two years later. I met Dr.Schwaber and took my medical records of my hearing tests with me..He said that he would like to do some test to see if I qualify for the cochlear implant and found out that I could if my hearing got worse.He said that we only do the good ear and I had 40% at that time.
In mean time I went on with my life.One day I stopped at a truck stop to get gas and there I met John.We talked and we started to date.About a year later he asked me to marry him.we were married on April 8.1995.
One day John asked me how I lost me hearing.I told what happen when I was three.He asked me if the crash happened on March 3,1963 and I said "Yes" with a shocked look on my face. He asked where the crash was and I told him. I ask"Why" and he said that he and his dad helped a little girl that day and come to find that he was the boy that helped me out of the crashed car and is now my loving husband!
Two years after we were married,I noticed my hearing was getting worse and I and had to get new hearing aids,amplified telephones and the a VCO phones as the years passed. It was getting where I could not understand or hear on the phone.
Each day my hearing in the right ear is going down and at this time I have 28%in that ear. but with a husband that loves me for my heart and blessed me with two wonderful sons and step-children, we have our good time and bad together.
I was hearing just fine in the right ear and at the age of 28 things were good.One night I went to bed and the next morning I got up and noticed that something was wrong with my hearing. I called the doctor's office and told them what was wrong and they told me not to worry,that it may be wax in my ear and for me to come in so they could check it out.When he looked there was no wax in my ear at all and I knew that this was bad.They did a hearing test and found out that I had lost 50% overnight.The Doctor said that my nerve in my ear was getting weaker and that I would have to get a hearing aid.At that time I could hear some things but had a hard time understanding what a person was saying to me.I had to move back to Nashville to be close my brother and my sister.They set up for me to meet a Dr.Schwaber at vady about two years later. I met Dr.Schwaber and took my medical records of my hearing tests with me..He said that he would like to do some test to see if I qualify for the cochlear implant and found out that I could if my hearing got worse.He said that we only do the good ear and I had 40% at that time.
In mean time I went on with my life.One day I stopped at a truck stop to get gas and there I met John.We talked and we started to date.About a year later he asked me to marry him.we were married on April 8.1995.
One day John asked me how I lost me hearing.I told what happen when I was three.He asked me if the crash happened on March 3,1963 and I said "Yes" with a shocked look on my face. He asked where the crash was and I told him. I ask"Why" and he said that he and his dad helped a little girl that day and come to find that he was the boy that helped me out of the crashed car and is now my loving husband!
Two years after we were married,I noticed my hearing was getting worse and I and had to get new hearing aids,amplified telephones and the a VCO phones as the years passed. It was getting where I could not understand or hear on the phone.
Each day my hearing in the right ear is going down and at this time I have 28%in that ear. but with a husband that loves me for my heart and blessed me with two wonderful sons and step-children, we have our good time and bad together.
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