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US troops loose hearing in Iraq 2008-03-08 04:31:43 This should hardly have to be news, but good thing anyway. Increased attention to hearing damage by the US military.
As reported by Associated Press today:
Based on a report written by Theresa Schultz from NHCA. She is a former Air Force audiologist.
Here is another article based on her work from 2004.
[...] Read more:Iraq
Find new subtitles in a whiff! 2008-03-05 08:05:07 Open Source Project for finding subtitles
When TV-networks doesn’t caption their popular shows, deaf and people with reduced hearing are discriminated. On the Internet and by the use of home computers, there is a way around this. Most of the activity related to this is by copyright laws and such, regarded as illegal in various countries. [...]
An update about the CI-situation in Norway feb 29th 2008 (in Norwegian) 2008-02-29 02:00:01 This article is from hlf.no
Garanterte CI-operasjoner – og måtte gå
Styremøtet på Rikshospitalet torsdag ble meget dramatisk. Først garanterte direktør Åge Danielsen at Rikshospitalet vil levere CI-operasjoner til voksne og barn som bestilt i oppdragsdokumentet fra helseministeren. Så fikk han sparken.
Klokken 00.20 natt til fredag fikk administrerende direktør Åge Danielsen ved Rikshospitalet sparken av [...] Read more:Norway
, Norwegian
The health debate in Norway (it’s all about personal prestige and money, not the patients…) 2008-02-29 01:35:49 Just wrote a short piece in a comment-field about the political game that is ongoing in health-Norway
right now: (sorry for not translating to english right now)
This is in response to the main article in Dagbladets online news this morning.
Alle debattinnleggene her har litt rett. Det er blitt en catch22-situasjon og nå er det et [...] Read more:patients
I was on national news today 2008-02-27 15:39:52 Here is original video from NRK. The piece where I appear begins about 7 minutes into the news… It’s in Norwegian, of course -tv/klipp/342000
I’m working on the video-file, but unfortunately the overstream.net-service written about here earlier is undergoing maintenance due to high demand (!!!).Will post video here later with English captions…
For English speakers: the [...]
Status update II 2008-02-26 07:34:26 Where to begin??? Well, since my last “Status
update from Nov. 6th 2007” (where everything is still valid, I won’t repeat everything) some things has changed.
Overall everything is a little bit worse. Tinnitus is loud, perhaps more constant, fatigue is a bit more severe. I get tired a lot faster from a lot less sound. [...]
Unconditional condition 2008-02-17 07:37:57 I just sat very comfortably in my favorite chair in front of my computer for two hours, doing some work that requires concentration. I had no sounds to distract me, since I turned my hearing aids off for the work-session. I can’t stand the sound of the fans, even though I have water-cooled most of [...]
Sky on fire 2008-02-16 10:30:33
View from where I live
The best, the good, the bad and the ugly 2008-02-15 08:16:50 Here’s some random (scrambled brain) thoughts….
The ugly side of life:When reality bites hard, misery loves company.Having said that, there’s always opportunities to be found, even in bad times… Just don’t freak out. Shift your weight from one foot to the other….
The bad side of life:When life is stalled for some reason. When things happen that [...]
Not hearing all voices 2008-02-06 05:29:27 Last night it became very clear to me the difference between lip reading/hearing a person I know well, and lip reading/hearing someone I don’t know that well.
I visited my best friend, Rolf, for his birthday. We almost always have great conversations, this time over a nice dinner he made. I have almost no trouble [...]
Localization with single CI 2008-02-04 04:54:14 A fellow CI blogger, Michael Chorost, the author of “Rebuilt”, recently wrote about an experience concerning localization with his bilateral CI’s.I just found this article in the Laryngoscope, to back up his findings with facts (all the way at the bottom ):
Localization by Postlingually Deafened Adults Fitted With a Single Cochlear Implant.
Laryngoscope. 118(1):145-151, [...] Read more:single
Captioning videos @ Overstream.net! 2008-02-01 08:22:15 One of my CI-blogfriends, Abbie (Chronicles of a bionic woman), recently created this captioned CI-activation-video! For all of us who can’t understand spoken words very well, this is a gift!Thank you Abbie, for letting us really participate in your experience. I learned a lot just from understanding what your audie says!!!
I saw this video [...] Read more:videos
View from a room 2008-01-30 03:43:40 Snow brightens the day and give me pleasure of beauty…
The cost of a CI-operation? 2008-03-13 21:12:31 Can anyone tell me the cost of a CI-operation? Either for one ear, or simultaneously both ears?
I would like to “hear” (pun intended ) from everyone who has knowledge about it…
On a personal note…
My writing is a bit slow these days, I hit a mental bump in the road caused by these budget cuts [...]
My hearing diagrams 2008-03-27 09:59:33 Finally got myself around to scan these charts and post them here
First of all, here is a source of terminology and technical explanations related to sound.
From 2004:
The yellow “banana” is the speech discrimation area for normal hearing. Deafness is defined as below 85 dB. The measurement stops at 100 dB. On this [...]
Minister of Health in Norway guarantees CI-operations for 2008 2008-04-01 02:54:28 This is a translated, abridged and reworked version of a Norwegian article found on HLF’s website.
Guarantees CI-operations and screening of infants.
Norwegian Minister
of Health
, Sylvia Brustad gurantees that screening of hearing on infants and CI-operations will be carried out, regardless of the cutbacks at Rikshopitalet.
In response to MP Berit Brørby (Labour Party) the [...] Read more:Norway
My letter to the Norwegian Treasury Department 2008-04-04 04:23:49 The text has been translated and changed some, compared to the original letter in Norwegian
.
My status and reason for writing this letter:
I have been hard of hearing all my life, and at the same time I have been working like everybody else at 100% in the IT-industry for as long as I could. Never learned [...] Read more:Department
, Treasury
Pharaohs and Red Sea impressions 2008-04-19 06:14:26 In order to justify this posting on this blog, I would like to say that anyone on the brink of deafness who suffers conditions like hyperacusia, tinnitus and/or extreme fatigue would probably benefit from an exotic trip.
It will help for thinking about other things than “the condition”.I can testify that I feel somewhat better, [...]
As life goes on… A post-mortem salute. 2008-04-18 12:18:05 A person I liked extremely well for her incredible kindness and self-sacrificial nature has moved on to the next world…
Ingrid-Line Hernholm, mother of 5, passed away peacefully on April 14th after she had been in coma since suffering a brain hemorrhage on April 1st. She suffered the brain stroke while working for Norwegian Association for [...]
My un-sound condition - pre CI era 2008-04-24 05:21:45 I want to make this list in order to remind myself what it was like before I got the CI (2007/2008). Maybe I run into problems post-surgery post-sound activation and need a reminder of how I reacted to sounds before the operation(s). It’s a time capsule to myself…
Here’s a similar post I wrote january this [...]
Feel like I’m walking in Sahara 2008-04-28 14:57:18 This shot was made with my brand new Olympus 570-UZ camera (it has a built-in panorama function, as you can see). I’m very pleased with it
What I’m not so pleased with, is that I went to Rikshospitalet today to find out how much longer I have to wait. Last time I asked, [...] Read more:Sahara
The rings of Saturn - simultaneous bilateral CI-surgery? 2008-04-27 13:54:13 The Sahara desert, where I was recently, is like a window to the universe. I was excited to be able to see Saturn
with my very own eyes through a telescope. Fantastic! Just like the picture above.
The thought just came to me; In space there is no sound. Sound carries through air. No air [...]
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