cochlear implant

Ellis runs ahead of me in all his four-year-old boy vivacity. As I lumber along with the baby on my back, lugging our little bag full of snacks and water bottles, I watch him, waiting for the moment, just before he disappears around the ...

Blog entry - diber - 09/14/2009 - 22:36 - 19 comments

Yesterday we went down to the children's hospital (CHOP) again for Ellis's two year evaluation and mapping. Today marks two years since his activation of his cochlear implant. He wears a Cochlear Freedom on his right ear. Ellis is ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/24/2009 - 13:28 - 3 comments

I've gotten some fun movies of Ellis recently. These are taken roughly around eighteen moths post CI activation. In the first, Ellis is fingerspelling the title to his bedtime story--and saying the letters as best he can (though he's not wearing his ...

Blog entry - diber - 01/29/2009 - 17:34 - 4 comments

Yesterday was such a dreary day! We woke up to a blanket of snow that eventually got soaked with rain, becoming a wretched blanket of slush. Since our weather was somewhere between snow and ice, I took Ellis to his audiology appointment via ...

Blog entry - diber - 01/29/2009 - 12:57 - 3 comments

In June of 2005 our son, E, was born. E's birth was the bright spot in a very difficult year. In the wake personal loss, regret, and tragedy, E's arrival brought us joy and peace. We had just moved from New Orleans, only a few months before Hurricane ...

Story - admin - 01/13/2009 - 17:29 - 8 comments

...for every Phillies Tshirt I saw today... Yay Phillies! I must admit, though, it didn't even occur to me to watch the game last night. I think I may have heard that it was going to be played on Wednesday, but it didn't really compute. I was too ...

Blog entry - diber - 10/30/2008 - 23:00 - 2 comments

Hubby blogs---- Wow. What a week. Actually, it's been a week and a half. About the middle of last week, I was looking at a deadline. I knew I had to finish this particular project by the end of the week or so, though I did think I would have the ...

Blog entry - diber - 09/27/2008 - 11:14 - 4 comments

We spent the afternoon at CHOP today. Ellis had his one year evaluation and mapping for his cochlear implant. The past few times he's been in the hearing booth, he's HATED it, like cried and crawled all over me. Today he was much better, and even ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/28/2008 - 22:20 - 3 comments

Ellis's CI was activated . I hope to write more later. Email this post Thank you for your interest in spreading the word about Ellis Island. NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/24/2008 - 08:49 - 3 comments

After settling into his CI for quite some time, Ellis has been taking it off and pulling it apart recently. Mostly, it seems, because he's bored and/or a bit ornery (as he is with a lot of things--understandably getting used to a new baby and ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/10/2008 - 00:09 - 4 comments

A year ago today was Ellis's CI surgery . It's been a busy year, and we're starting to find our pace with it. It's hard to think about it too much, though...the surgery, that is, so I won't. I can't believe it's been a year already. ...

Blog entry - diber - 07/02/2008 - 23:33 - 0 comments

Sometimes when I turn on something for E to watch, I just hit the mute button. It's one of the perks of having a deaf kid. I usually don't hit mute when he has his CI on, but today I wasn't thinking and when annoying children's TV music came on, I hit ...

Blog entry - diber - 04/08/2008 - 23:03 - 3 comments

Yet another rare appearance by Dad! Ever see Das Boot, or Crimson Tide? The Hunt for Red October doesn't count, because it doesn't really convey the reality of daily life on a submarine. It's excruciatingly boring, characterized by much olfactory ...

Blog entry - diber - 03/14/2008 - 23:04 - 9 comments

E's been doing really well about wearing the CI. Much better. He's worn it without taking it off all day almost every day for the past couple of weeks. (Except for the bit yesterday when he wouldn't wear his hat and CI at the same time--and the hat ...

Blog entry - diber - 03/12/2008 - 23:37 - 4 comments

Just when you think you have two-year-old figured out, he goes wonky on you. Morphs into a new human. There's a hundred little ways he's growing and changing. He wants to do it himself--he gets the juice out the fridge, ...

Blog entry - diber - 03/01/2008 - 09:37 - 11 comments

It's been six months since Ellis's CI activation . It was actually 6 mos exactly a week ago, but I've been wanting to sit down and write a long, eloquent post, but it's just not going to happen, at least eloquence isn't. So I'll pound out some details ...

Blog entry - diber - 01/31/2008 - 23:42 - 12 comments

It's probably about time to do another update on how fantastic Ellis is *grin*. I was kind of on hiatus from all deaf blogging for a little while. The comments were starting to get too intense for me, which, to some extent, I allow to happen merely by ...

Blog entry - diber - 11/03/2007 - 22:06 - 14 comments

I need to write this before I forget, because I think this little incident was an important little milestone in E's CI journey. He's 2 1/2 months post-activation. He doesn't respond to his name as much as I'd like, but then he doesn't respond when I ...

Blog entry - diber - 10/05/2007 - 00:04 - 2 comments

I've been doing more research on the internet. I think I just need to go away and read a novel. I'm dreaming about deaf issues lately. It's just all deaf all the time. I'm trying to get a feel for the CI community. It's something I've resisted for a long ...

Blog entry - diber - 10/03/2007 - 23:05 - 12 comments

The two month mark has passed from E's CI activation. He's doing well, especially expressively. When he's wearing the CI, he more regularly turns to his name/other sounds. And he's consistently saying "bye-bye" and "aaah" for airplane. He's imitating ...

Blog entry - diber - 09/27/2007 - 23:14 - 33 comments