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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 [...]

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 [...]

I need suggestions!   …  I got the Freedom (by cochlear co.) BTE sound processor for my ABI, back in November, but a few times recently I have noticed the batteries seeming to die like super-duper fast! i know my ABI program probably would use more power than most CI programs but still! So, it has [...]

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 …