Hearing Herself for the First Time

Thank you for sharing this(sloanchurman as well as Neatorama)I am currently back in school studying to be an SLP so that I can work with children that have received cochlear implants. It makes me cry each and every time I see someone's implant get activated. Reminds me why I'm working so hard in school!

I'm happy for that girl. I'm sure that moment in her life is unforgettable. Good job Envoy Medical! ;)Thanks for sharing Miss Cellania! ;)

Awww, very awesome and totally made me cry.

i cried

A wondrous moment frozen in time...Congrats, sister!

After that no way you will ever beat
the NEAT
in Neatorama.
How wonderful to have been able to see that.
THANK YOU.
That was wondrous.

DUDE!! Put down the freakin' camera and celebrate with your wife! Is posting it on youtube so important that you need to stand there and giggle while your wife experiences the most profound thing that's ever happened to her? Comfort her. Love her.

So it took seven comments before someone decided to take the happy out it. Bravo, JeffL, for being superior.

And congrats, sloanchurman. I look forward to experiencing a similar reaction in 2023, when I can finally see infrared. :)

She has a husband?

That was really great. At the risk of sounding trite, it's nice to see something that's 100% goodness.

I have a feeling JeffL is single.

JeffL if you refer to her page on Youtube, she says that she wishes he taped it longer. I'm sure it was a mutual agreement that he was taping.

Aw, so sweet, I KNEW it was going to make me tear up and it did.

Tissue, please!

Sooner or later, she may realize that suicide is the only method that can only bring happiness.

Good for you!

btw: you, eh...got a little schmutz on your arm, there.

Beautiful, thank you!

Videos like this prompt a kind of depravation-meditation from viewers, which is nice. It shuts up our selfish-minds long enough to reflect on what life would be like without one of our senses.

Now, imagine what life would be like without any senses or even a thought - imagine your death. Lame isn't it? Not much "going on" at that point, eh? Looking from this perspective, what do you want? What do you really want? To see? To hear? To taste? To touch? To smell and think? Does it even matter what it is that you feel, as long as you feel something?

Damn. Good for you girl.

It's nice to see all the positive responses. The Deaf community generally disaprove of cochlear implants, particularly for children. Some go as far as to compare audiologists to Nazis performing a systematic genocide on Deaf culture.

Crap. Got dusty in here all of a sudden.

First time hearing? Someone put on some Nina Simone in there, stat!

Very Nice, gave me the warm fuzzies.

I wonder what was the first thing he said to her.

I don't believe that girl was born deaf. Her speaking voice is that of a hearing person, from some time. Deaf people from birth have a very different speaking voice. Still cool.

This makes me cry in happiness every time I watch it :) so awesome and I'm glad it was shared with everyone to watch <3

Why are you congratulating her? Now she will know the horror that is Celine Dion.

Seriously though, awesome.