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Meet 38-year-old Laura, a musician and cochlear implant user from Finland. Laura lost her hearing in 2018 and could not carry on with everyday life and could no longer make music. In this article, she tells us how life with hearing loss felt and how an EAS system—consisting of cochlear implant technology for high-pitched sounds and hearing aid technology for low-pitched sounds—helped her go back to fully enjoying and making music again.

Hi my name is Sherri and I am 58 years old. My husband Gary and I have been married for 32 years. We have two daughters and two amazing grandchildren. I have to say I am truly enjoying this stage of my life. We live on the south coast of the US. Our greatest joy

At MED-EL, we’ve always supported hearing in both ears. For someone with a severe-to-profound bilateral hearing loss, a cochlear implant may be the best option. But many people are unable to, or choose not to, receive two cochlear implants. So, for someone who has only one cochlear implant—what should be done with the second ear?

Let’s play a game. Say a word out loud, any word, it doesn’t matter. How many different frequencies of sound do you think that one word contained? One? Two? More? Actually, the sound of a single letter or word isn’t just a single frequency. It’s a complex group of different frequency components, all of which