That's exactly what's happening with her. Only today she also added the whole right side of her face twitching if the volume is up too loud! Did you ever have that?
Ha ha ha...we would've thought she would have taken her monkey along as it was such a focal point pre and even post surgery. Oh well, she's 14 and that says a lot!
Thanks for your well wishes. Amanda is here reading along with me. :-)
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I am stepmother to 15 year-old Amanda. We met when I was her teacher when she 3. She was my student in a class of deaf preschoolers using ASL.
She had been wanting a cochlear implant since she was 10. She finally received a CI, July 14, 2008 at the age of 13 and was activated August 12, 2008 at the age of 14. She is currently hoping to become bilateral and we are working on that process.
Follow Amanda's CI Journey by reading, looking at photos and watching captioned video clips.
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2 comments:
I know what Amanda's talking about!.... I had this eye twitchings too when I had mine activated in 2006.
Just one eye ball, not both. So it was weird.
It looked like she picked up the first sound only after one minute...it took me like 20 minutes before I finally answered. That's good sign for her.
She forgot to bring her monkey along?
Please tell Amanda good luck on her new journey for me.
Hi Lane,
That's exactly what's happening with her. Only today she also added the whole right side of her face twitching if the volume is up too loud! Did you ever have that?
Ha ha ha...we would've thought she would have taken her monkey along as it was such a focal point pre and even post surgery. Oh well, she's 14 and that says a lot!
Thanks for your well wishes. Amanda is here reading along with me. :-)
Jennifer
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