User Stories

Editor’s note: we’re happy to introduce a new guest author, Morgan Martins, who will share with us her experiences with hearing loss and receiving a MED-EL cochlear implant. Here is her first post: My ears have always been my Achilles’ heel. My first disease was an ear infection at just 3 months old, and after

Editor’s note: this is the second in a series of guest posts from bilateral CI recipient Adam Fitzgerald. In his previous post, he talked about the first steps of his CI journey. Family and cochlear implants: for a recipient, these two things often go hand-in-hand. One of the things that surprised me most when receiving

  Now here’s a special cochlear implant story from a MED-EL recipient. Michele Alexander has bilateral MED-EL RONDOs, and was recently invited to have an on-air radio interview with Steve Mills and Basil Zempilas of the 6PR Breakfast radio show in Australia. We’ve got audio of the interview, and thought that you might like to

Editor’s note: this is the second post from Matt Jones, a MED-EL cochlear implant recipient. You can read the first part here. Then came the next step: I had the operation. I was in and out and all dopey from the anesthetic in no time. After weeks of recovery, it was time to take the next step.