well, that was cool
Med-El, the manufacturer of my CIs, has a forum on their website for CI recipients, and potential CI recipients. It's mostly people who've been implanted with Med-El products, but a lot of people who've just learned that they're candidates come there and ask questions, and there are a couple of people with AB or CA products as well. It's not a problem, it's all about providing people with a chance to ask questions and learn how others dealt with the process of learning to hear this way. And in the process, a lot of the people who post there regularly start to feel like a community. It's an international group - lots of Americans and Canadians but people from all over the EU as well, and some Australians. A week or two ago one of the women suggested an online chat. I immediately recoiled, because anything like talking on the phone has been a source of frustration for me for most of the last twenty years. But I decided to give it a try, because I'