Posted by: Anne on: November 28, 2008
Blogging…. Numerous times, I have clearly gotten this message from my family… “hearing impairment, of any sort, is not accepted in this house.” Well, why do I feel this way? Read on….
I’m the only one in family with hearing loss. late deafened, but last year I got ABI to help with lipreading [...]
Posted by: Anne on: November 26, 2008
A while after lunch I drove to the park and did short run today. My batteries for new Freedom for my Auditory Brain-stem Implant ABI died while I was running. (this processor is so new that I have only changed the batteries 4 times so far and charge – time is a little different from [...]
Posted by: Anne on: November 24, 2008
… I LOVED TALKING ON THE PHONE!!! … I became deaf. I knew I’d probably never talk on telephone again. My audiologist had told me that MOST of the ABI-recipients can’t understand much speech without lipreading. Well, I am the kind of girl that does what MOST people (that I know) think would be impossible …
Posted by: Anne on: November 24, 2008
On November 2, 2008 me and about 30 or 40 in that team ran and all completed (with a number of PR times, including mine) the NYC Marathon! I just found out that through this event alone NF Endurance Team raised a lotal (so far) of about $ 68,000 toward a cure for Neurofibromatosis! Thanks to [...]
Posted by: Anne on: November 22, 2008
I know I havn’t written on here in a long time, but now I’m back!
I was working in summer, college, and running cross country, and now I’m in fall break.
On November 2, I ran NYC Marathon with Children’s Tumor Foundation’s NF Endurance Team, and finished in 4:33, which is 27 minutes faster than my [...]
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