Reasons why I wanted this Implant

My hearing was borderline on being a candidate for the Advanced Bionic Cochlear Implant for a long time. But the reasons we were holding back was becuase of my speech. We didn't know if it would go down or if it would even improve. Your probably wondering why I would have such a great voice if I'm deaf but the truth is...its all beacuse of my mom! She was the one who made me go through therepy for so many years. My mom, a therapist, and I did Auditory Verbal therapy till I was like 9 years old. Now thats only beacuse they didn't know I was deaf untill the age of 2. Most people are probably in and out of thereapy by the age of 5 or 6. But my speech and hearing has been going downhill for several months. And we all decided it was time to get it. My mom already had to go through this with my brother, so she already did all the resaerch on which implant was the best. So that was one step less for me. We had already decided that we were going to do the Advanced Bionics Implant becuase my brother had such a success with it. Other things that we really liked about the Advanced Bionics Implants were: the service we get (it was fantastic everytime we needed something or even for an answer to a stupid question we had- haha), we also liked the looks (It comes with a variety of colors, and the processor itself looks "sleeker" and more stylish). So you can tell we are big fans of the Advanced Bionics Cochlear Implant. But anyways, when thinking about this, there were a whole list of things I wanted to get out of it, such as
- hearing all the annoying noises in the enviroment,
- hearing my friends talk in the Cafeteria,
- hearing someone ask me out with out saying "WHAT?!?!",
- hearing people in a resturant and the waiter taking our order,
- and watching T.V without Captions,
I want to hear everything possible in this world!! So these are my goals through this journey of having the Implant. Maybe this will help you make an easier decision on getting the implant.