My co-worker has an older son who is blind. Every six months or so she moves all the furniture around on him just for laughs. She's a little....strange.Iceman/Psylocke said:One of my cousins is almost totally blind (gradually gets worse). He came to our house for the second time a few months ago after about 8 years (he was about 9 at the time). He could remember his way around everywhere without any help!
Yeah, if they can accept their disability, they can have a very meaningful life. I would have thought it harder for someone who once had vision and then lost it but this guy seems to be trying to get the best out of life. Quite inspiring really.Mr Lex Luthor said:
It took an eternity, but it is a great way to kill boredom. People have been constantly *****ing "MORE SPOILERS! I demand spoilers!" But thanks. Now, I sound like an attention ****e. :dunce:squeekness said:I don't write good reviews, you have a better attention for detail than me. That must have taken you some tme to write.
As long as the joke is well intended I suppose it could be quite funny. Definitely strange though.squeekness said:My co-worker has an older son who is blind. Every six months or so she moves all the furniture around on him just for laughs. She's a little....strange.
Nothing wrong with a little shameless promotion. I get giddy whenever anyone asks about my story.Mr Lex Luthor said:
I specifically, if by specific you mean transcripts and **** then no not THAT specific, put in details page-by-page of each of the books I read, so just skip the big paragraphs in the middles. The afterthoughts are quite spoilerific, too, so I suppose they matter a lot unless you don't read Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and Uncanny X-Men or planning to read Spider-Man Special: Black and Blue and Read All Over and Warsong.Iceman/Psylocke said:
No offense.
Actually I read the whole thing, never could resist a good spoiler. They're quite well written (which was surprising j/kMr Lex Luthor said:
). I need to visit the bought/thought threads more often. I may even contribute once I've caught up with my reading.
None taken. You need to know that I have a special magnetic hearing aid that I can easily put on my right ear whenever I want. Its hearing ability is just as good as an average human's hearing ability.squeekness said:I love music far too much to imagine being happy to be deaf.
The horror. It's like a monster is roaring at me whenever I flush it.Iceman/Psylocke said:Toilet noises I can understand.
Vide supra. It doesn't affect it whatsoever. I hear the sound just as good as you do with my hearing aid on. It's not one of those rubber that the usual deaf people put inside their ears. It's much more advanced. It requires a long-hour operation. I had one back in 1999.Iceman/Psylocke said:Does it affect your enjoyment of films? I hate to admit
Can you tell me anything about it/what it's called etc. I might mention it to my mum if it's any good. Is it expensive? Is the operation risky?Mr Lex Luthor said:Vide supra. It doesn't affect it whatsoever. I hear the sound just as good as you do with my hearing aid on. It's not one of those rubber that the usual deaf people put inside their ears. It's much more advanced. It requires a long-hour operation. I had one back in 1999.
Really? That is very cool and very exciting. I didn't realize they had such excellent quality. Good for you.Mr Lex Luthor said:None taken. You need to know that I have a special magnetic hearing aid that I can easily put on my right ear whenever I want. Its hearing ability is just as good as an average human's hearing ability.
Vide supra. It doesn't affect it whatsoever. I hear the sound just as good as you do with my hearing aid on. It's not one of those rubber that the usual deaf people put inside their ears. It's much more advanced. It requires a long-hour operation. I had one back in 1999.
You should. I'd love to hear your side of opinion.Iceman/Psylocke said:Actually I read the whole thing, never could resist a good spoiler. They're quite well written (which was surprising j/k
They call it 3G.Iceman/Psylocke said:Can you tell me anything about it/what it's called etc. I might mention it to my mum if it's any good. Is it expensive? Is the operation risky?
So you get the best of both worlds in a way. Silence when you want it & superhearing whenever necessary.
I wear it with style. They come in colors; silver (moi), red, green, blue, et cetera.
Yeah, superhearing and silence. That's a good way to look at it.
One con, though; you can't get it wet. They should invent a new water-proof 3G with an MP3 player inserted and everything would be PERFECT.squeekness said:Really? That is very cool and very exciting. I didn't realize they had such excellent quality. Good for you.
So the clear, circular part was inserted under the skin, under the outer ear so the hole lines up with the hole in your ear? Is that what I am seeing? How much of this is visible outside your skin?Mr Lex Luthor said:You should. I'd love to hear your side of opinion.
They call it 3G.
No, of course, MINE is nothing like that peach-colored crap.
Specifically, it's called a Cochlear implant.
I don't know about it, financially. My mom said that it doesn't get paid until I'm 21. I'm not really sure how much it will cost for your mother to have an operation.
They had to cut the behind of my right ear and insert this inside the right side of my head. I, of course, was unconscious, so I couldn't feel anything, but the day when I had my bandage off was a *****, I'm not even KIDDING.
What is a Cochlear Implant ?
A cochlear implant (Bionic Ear) is an artificial hearing device, designed to produce useful hearing sensations by electrically stimulating nerves inside the inner ear. The Bionic Ear pioneered in 1978 by Professor Graeme Clark and his team.
The present day multi-channel cochlear implants, consist of 2 main components: 1) the cochlear implant package and electrode array (or receiver-stimulator) and 2) the speech processor and headset. The model shown in the Figures below is the Cochlear Ltd. Nucleus® 24 cochlear implant system, which was released in 1997.
The clear, circular part is inserted under the skin just above the ear. It's an everlasting, so they say, battery and I think the wires are like CPR machines, continually pumping electrical currents to my cochlear, the source of everything, while the OUTER peach-colored 3G, as you see in the first pic, is magnetically stuck onto where the clear, circular part is under the skin. The visibility is none, really, if you were referring to the clear, circular part.squeekness said:
I gotcha.Mr Lex Luthor said:
Still sounds great and I'm glad this technology is available for folks. Makes me wonder if Morg has one, and if he doesn't, why not? 
