Thursday, May 05, 2005

Why I think it should be called "Bionic Cochlear"

I am calling my implants as "bionic cochlear" instead of "cochlear implant" for many reasons. Here's why:

  • Reason #1:I am not getting my cochlear transplanted, replaced, or removed. It stays there.
  • Reason #2: An ear has many tiny parts, each part is no bigger than size of a pea. Image how a tiny part can affect a person's lifetime of hearing, personality, and well-being. Pretty sobering, so please wear ear plugs all the time if it is loud and everybody should have a hearing test often.
  • Reason #3: My right cochlear was upgraded to "Cochlear Version 2.0"
  • Reason #4: I have a serious hi-tech device, called bionic cochlear, implanted inside me.
  • Reason #5: Nothing can repair or replace a cochlear.
  • Reason #6: Nothing in the world, even in distant future, can create something to help one to hear more and bring a very natural hearing experience instantly. It all relies on the ability of a person's mind to perceive the surroundings.
  • Reason #7: Today's bionic cochlear gives me a very "close to natural" hearing experience than amplified hearing aids can do.
  • Reason #8: The bionic cochlear does not replace the ear, it merely supplement the current cochlear and uses electrical pulses to represent the hearing simulation.
  • Reason #9: With the bionic cochlear, I have to re-learn the hearing all over again, and the advantage is that hearing will be much better, million times over.
  • Reason #10: What is like to hear with implant...? Not much different from what you hear. "It's all in the ear of the beholder"... it means it's all in the mind. All the information from the bionic cochlear to my mind is all beeps. Using my mind, I try perceive these beeping sounds as an impression of a source. By doing lots of concentration like telling my mind where and what these beeping sounds represent... And time will tell when I can finally understand these impressions as natural hearing. Enough said!

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