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PLEASE VOTE FOR MY PHOTO ENTRY! (NF)

Posted by: Anne on: April 9, 2009

PLEASE VOTE FOR MY PHOTO ENTRY! DONT WORRY ABOUT THE PREVIOUS ONE, BECAUSE THIS ONE IS DOING BETTER! IT IS ALREADY RANKED NUMBER 19, AFTER 2 DAYS. WITH YOUR HELP AND YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS VOTING FOR MY PHOTO ENTRY, IT COULD WIN! IT IS EASY! JUST PRESS THE GREEN BUTTON! THANK YOU [...]

It was my dad that first convinced me to go out for cross country in high school. I could not run 400 meters…. (Click VIEW, and please vote for mine!)

Its like a “sweat condom” for the BTE!…

Posted by: Anne on: January 31, 2009

…but it is a water balloon! my friend and i went to wal-mart today… (after she took pictures of the HUGE amount of snow on my car, which she found to be humerous, while watching me clean most of it off!) …and when she asked what i wanted to buy, i responded “water balloons”! …(I [...]

Posted by: Anne on: January 16, 2009

Hey, other BTE-users- bloggers! Does anybody know if these (or something else??) would be recommended solution for moisture problem that i have been experiencing?! I have cochlear Freedom BTE-processor for my AB I, since November.
http://hsdcstore.com/browseproducts/Super-Seals-Kit.HTML
http://www.gearforears.com/
http://www.hearingaidsweatband.com/
Like i said in previous post, I switched the mic protector last night, but it still happening! (after a month a [...]

My Sidekick 3 was stolen!

Posted by: Anne on: January 8, 2009

My precious sidekick 3 was stolen last week! I already got a cheap replacement phone for just $20 (i’m not on contract right now, but still have service with t-mobile.), and its “okay” but just slow text messaging (15 button keypad). I am thinking about getting something else in a little while, but havnt decided [...]

Hearing with my new Freedom…

Posted by: Anne on: December 8, 2008

So, I’ve had my Freedom processor for about 3 weeks now and I keep being amazed. I sort of wish it could do the auto-sesituivity changing like the Sprint did, so now I always have to remember to change it. Last night I was talking with a friend and it was so noisy, and i [...]

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 [...]

Old radio ad is a new experience

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 [...]

I had not talked on the telephone for 3 years!

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 …

NYC Marathon (NF Team!) / and running with my new Freedom!

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! ThanksĀ to [...]