Quote:My Friend Joe Milne who suffers from Ushers syndrome, was deaf from birth. She had bilateral cochlea implants fitted which allow her to hear for the first ever, this is the moment they are switched on!
Video by her mother. The other woman is a nurse.
Try this if the video doesn't work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyDdVJ81Ixs#t=30
This hits me on a couple levels. Amazing as a scientific/medical story and certainly a personal one for Jo.
Quote:"The switch-on was the most emotional and overwhelming experience of my life and I'm still in shock now. The first day everybody sounded robotic and I have to learn to recognise what these sounds are as I build a sound library in my brain," she told The Journal.
"Hearing things for the first time is so, so emotional, from the ping of a light switch to running water. I can't stop crying," she added.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ama...18755.html