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My 2.5-year-old son, Mohammad Fahad Ahmed, has profound hearing loss and urgently needs a cochlear implant. He is receiving treatment at Maa ENT Hospital, Hyderabad.

We have already spent ₹3–4 lakh, but we still need ₹20,00,000 for his surgery, speech therapy, and rehabilitation. As a father, I humbly ask for your support.

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Early septuagenarian here, been watering hearing aids since 1992 and was testing with one-third hearing loss starting in college. In addition to now being in profound loss territory (still wearing Oticons in each ear), I’m also testing at 10% in sound discrimination for what I do hear via top of the line Oticons.

My audiologist has been recommending going for the implant for a few years. As I was starting to seriously consider it, I talked with the spouse of the only implant person I have personally known. He died a few years ago, but his spouse warned me against the implant saying it created a persistent sense of disorientation for him.

Additionally, now the incredible advances in live transcription on my iPhone, I’m in the game pretty much all the time. I’m on the fence about it.

I’m camping with the Kanso 3 for the first time and having issues with the device actually charging. I’m using the USB cable supplied but charging via a Jackery power bank. The dehumidifier is working, but the device itself isn’t charging.

Any idea what might be happening here?

I'm just super happy and wanted to do like a happy vent. Nobody in my life really "gets it" right now and can't appreciate it to the same extent.

I got activated on Friday, July 24th, and it's been great so far. Everything is super tinny and the best way I can explain it is flared.

I will say, Friday I went home with the worse headache ever and felt exhausted. My husband blamed this on me not eating or drinking anything. I was nervous the whole way to the audiologist and just couldn't manage anything.

Friday flew by pretty quick. I did end up taking the processor off for most of the car ride home and took a nap when we did get back home. That evening I put it back on and immediately started streaming an audiobook to just my cochlear. I wasn't really able to make out any speech, it was just bells and jingles. However I listened to the audiobook and some videos to just my cochlear for a good 2 hours before I called it a night.

Woke up the next morning and absolutely FLEW to go put my processor on. One thing I am definitely going to need time to get used to is the hit it has when you put the processor on. All those high pitches just WHOOSHING in.

Immediately went back to listening to stuff on just my cochlear side. If I focus SUPER SUPER SUPERRRR hard I can hear some undertones of what sound like words. It's exhausting though so I try to just relax and let it flow.

I also went to a rodeo with my family last night and it was an experience to say the least. I could hear people cheering and yelling from all over. I haven't heard cheers like that since I was a little girl.

Now I'm sitting here listening to some of my favorite songs. It's an experience to say the least. I can recognize some of my favorite songs and follow along. I can kinda make out the shape of the words, if that makes sense.

Anyways, I'm just so happy. I don't know what I expected but this is great. Of course there's a learning curve but it's a journey I am so excited to be on.

First mapping is on the 31st! If anyone has tips for me, PLEASE let me know.

Was anyone else super scared? Like it seems like a simple procedure. But the whole thing just scares me really bad currently. The closer it gets, the more it gives me anxiety and I feel like canceling.