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Hi my name is Lisa Jordan and
I'm 31 years old and from Hagerstown, Maryland. I chose Advanced Bionics for a variety of reasons
the first and foremost of which was music. I grew up hearing but had
transitioned into the Deaf world, serving culturally Deaf churches where the primary mode of communication was American Sign Language.
So the ease of communication at work was great, but at home it
was a different story. My parents didn't know any Sign Langauge and lipreading was getting very tiresome.
and frustrating. The cochlear implant technology has completely changed the way that I communicate with the outside world
Before the implants I wasn't able to use the voice telephone whatsoever
As I said before, I can use the phone effectively all the time. I'm now on the phone all the time.
Before I received my cochlear implants, and during the time I was profoundly deaf I was
using hearing aids, and they were giving me some awareness to environmental sounds, but toward the end very little.
The real reason I decided to go forward and seeking more information about cochlear implant was
music. I was a music major in college and I missed music terribly not
being able to enjoy it. With my hearing aids, I could hear a tiny bit of the bass but no melody whatsoever.
The ability of Advanced Bionics to create viritual electrodes was something that was going to be
The ability of Advanced Bionics to create viritual electrodes was something that was going to be
very exciting for music enjoyment. And over a year later I am very happy that I did go with Advanced Bionics
because I can't imagine music sounding better with another cochlear implant system.
The fidelity of the music is absolutely fantastic, as a music major I definitely can tell the difference between good quality music
and not so good. And I'm amazed at the quality of music when streaming either
directly connected to the ComPilot or through Bluetooth, it sounds equally amazing.
And it's even better than listening to my Bose headphones when I use those with the Naida CI,
so it's just been a really great experience.
so it's just been a really great experience.
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