I'm sure you have heard the term and you can imagine something in your mind, probably a hearing aid I would say. But I think like me – mostly, if you don't have someone in your family of group of friends with a cochlear implant you are not sure what I'm talking about.
Well – I didn't until I met this fine little guy I like to call “Tata”. He was born with 100% hearing loss in both ears. When I first met him he only had one implant, now he has it in both ears and the progress I seeing in this little guy is just tremendous!
I'm feel so blessed to know him and his family. And just the other day he came over with his Koala, a stuffed animal that also had the “Papapa” (this is how he calls his Implant System). Him and his brother got a Cochlear Koala when he had his second implant's surgery, just a few weeks ago. Watching the kids playing with the bear was just priceless and after they leftour house my kids were very interested on getting a bear with an “implant” as well. “How come does Tata gets one of these in his ears and I don't?”
And here I go explain to him all of it. It got me into the whole idea of REALLY – how does it work?! And I did a little reading about it – its just AMAZING! The Bionic ear!!! If you find that you have yourself a little time you may want to read if yourself. And there are many stories of real families – newborns to adults that have the implant as well.
How amazing is that God gives man such technology to develop such a thing to give us awesome devices/support/experiences like this!!
Their web site is: Cochlear Implant
Here is a picture of my friend Tata, this is what the implant looks like - a pic from my phone so it's not such a good one!
And he didn't want to finish his Pasta so he grabed a pillow so Koala would be tall enought and told him to sit and eat it all!
This is the Cochlear Koala - you can get him on the site fro $30 or just to Cochlear Kit for $8 and use it in any stufferd animal you wish! Cool, no?!
