Kelly's Cochlear Implant Activation

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  • čas přidán 7. 07. 2014
  • Kelly's cochlear implant activation after several years of diminishing hearing due to ototoxicity from drugs related to Cystic Fibrosis and double lung transplant. She has had almost complete hearing lost for the past year.
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Komentáře • 102

  • @RTX94
    @RTX94 Před 9 lety +80

    The fact that she asked whether they've adapted such technology for blind people pulled a heart-string. You're a blessed man to have such a caring woman in your life, sir. I'm glad technology keeps progressing the way it does.

  • @mikeyurb1
    @mikeyurb1 Před 9 lety +111

    Bless her heart for asking about technology advancement for the blind during this time for her....so selfless. Good wishes for you both!

    • @ramose83
      @ramose83 Před 3 lety +4

      I thought exactly the same ....

    • @lionellloyd9003
      @lionellloyd9003 Před 2 lety +1

      Australian scientist are working on it. Seeing that their cochlear ear is such a success.

  • @stevethomas-cc5lz
    @stevethomas-cc5lz Před 5 lety +64

    well, im going in next spring 2019 to get one of these implants. ive been deaf for 40 yrs. wish me luck. i want to hear again.

    • @kyledraganov
      @kyledraganov  Před 5 lety +8

      Good luck! Hope the implant helps you.

    • @seanb9445
      @seanb9445 Před 5 lety +7

      @@kyledraganov good luck. my son is deaf and he is only 1 and half years and will be getting one of these :)

    • @Salsuero
      @Salsuero Před 4 lety

      Steve... don't delay... update us today!!!

    • @Chicken_Butt_Farms
      @Chicken_Butt_Farms Před 4 lety +1

      we need an update!

    • @bethmerryfield7186
      @bethmerryfield7186 Před 4 lety

      I truly hope for the best for you.

  • @gkprivate433
    @gkprivate433 Před 2 lety +19

    Wow, what she went through and still smiles. What a positive person

  • @lesskinner8588
    @lesskinner8588 Před 2 lety +9

    I've just had my surgery nearly 6 weeks ago, and the cochlear turned on for 3 weeks.
    I had exposure to ototoxic chemicals, as well as excessive workplace noise over a 42 year working life (so far).
    Ototoxic chemicals, drugs, pesticides, you really have to know what you are exposing yourself to in this modern world.
    Congrats to Kelly, after 8 years or so, I bet you are doing great, well I hope so. All the best.

  • @viviengreen7486
    @viviengreen7486 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Being implanted back in 1997 and re implanted 2019 Technology of internal was as good back in 1997 now the external processors with Bluetooth tech are amazing going from body worn processors to behind the ear was a huge step for me. So glad I was chosen to be first in South West England Uk and knowing they have done thousands of patients including children, babies since is outstanding.

  • @johnfenn
    @johnfenn Před 2 lety +2

    This girl is super smart, the smartest patient of all of these videos.

  • @ramose83
    @ramose83 Před 3 lety +4

    How caring of her to ask if they have the same technology for blind people. I love her voice too ...

  • @casualcrybaby
    @casualcrybaby Před rokem +1

    She is so lovely for asking about technology for blindness.. bless her heart. I’m so glad she had a good experience.

  • @loisjackson3846
    @loisjackson3846 Před rokem +1

    My granddaughter has these and you would never know. I am so thankful for them. 10 yrs. Now.

  • @annother3350
    @annother3350 Před 6 lety +23

    Kelly has such a nice voice!

  • @Cookenour
    @Cookenour Před 2 lety +12

    As I'm in the process of being evaluated for this implant and watching videos of those who have them, Kelly made me laugh at 1:08, only out of mutual experiences as she says to say that again. It takes someone with such hearing loss as ours to know the feelings. So glad to see that she's on the path of hearing.

  • @aucourant9998
    @aucourant9998 Před 5 lety +21

    She's a really nice person.

  • @vigorousera
    @vigorousera Před 3 lety +2

    It's so wild that someone clicking around an old-ass Windows screen will allow a deaf person to hear.

  • @KillerFix24
    @KillerFix24 Před 4 lety +3

    I would really love to have that job. The feeling of seeing the reaction of little children hearing their parents voice for the first time must be incredibly intoxicating.

  • @psycho.dad5252
    @psycho.dad5252 Před 4 lety +2

    she has the sweetest voice. she should be a voice actor.

  • @youtubeblockscomments
    @youtubeblockscomments Před 2 lety +1

    The people who made this device, thank you!

  • @bethmerryfield7186
    @bethmerryfield7186 Před 4 lety +2

    This is so heartwarming. I'm so happy for this young lady. Thank you for sharing.

  • @RobinPatrick
    @RobinPatrick Před 5 lety +4

    Way to go Kelly! It sounds like you're a fighter from way back. And, your voice is lovely!!

  • @luanneoshea
    @luanneoshea Před 10 lety +19

    This is so cool to watch; what a great journey we're witnessing! Kelly you're amazing! You definitely have got your drawl on ... love you!

  • @stevegray1308
    @stevegray1308 Před 3 lety +2

    Her speech is really good for someone deaf, she must have had excellent speech therapists.

  • @leonardo47000
    @leonardo47000 Před 4 lety +5

    Thank you for sharing your joy. It means so much at this point in my life.

  • @XrpAndy
    @XrpAndy Před rokem

    The way the doctor talks slow and mouths the words is incredible patient service

  • @spuriouseffect
    @spuriouseffect Před 4 lety +3

    Absolutely astonishing how quickly her brain reprogrammed itself.

  • @ShanonT12
    @ShanonT12 Před 2 lety +1

    Thank you thank you thank you for sharing with the world. This brightened my day, made me smile and extremely grateful to doctors and technology. ❤️

  • @sajero2
    @sajero2 Před 6 lety +3

    So happy for you, Kelly!

  • @yo19951O9rk
    @yo19951O9rk Před 9 lety +3

    This video is great
    I can now see the whole test procedure.

  • @googlinstuff8910
    @googlinstuff8910 Před 2 lety

    This is the most beautiful thing I have ever watched. I am late 50's and I am crying. Thank yolu.

    • @juliap.5375
      @juliap.5375 Před rokem

      You have unstable psycho system. Or maybe too lot of stresses and fears in your life? Illness, debt, something like that?

    • @googlinstuff8910
      @googlinstuff8910 Před rokem +1

      @@juliap.5375 No, I am merely expressing my thoughts and emotions while watching someone joyfully react to what I have taken for granted all of my life. Which includes vision, which includes reading, which includes reading your assinine question. I am still grateful, despite that. I would imagine that enduring the terror of living in China, as you do, has removed several essential aspects of humanity that you do not recognize.

  • @mygirldarby
    @mygirldarby Před rokem

    If I could go back in time I would have become an audiologist or a speech therapist. I find this field so interesting.

  • @BadTiger
    @BadTiger Před rokem

    In the middle of that she cares for the blind getting the same miracle. Jesus Christ that woman is a Saint

  • @stevenmclaren2730
    @stevenmclaren2730 Před 3 lety +1

    What a wonderful woman.

  • @dalehenry5233
    @dalehenry5233 Před 2 lety +2

    When I had mine turned on for the first time, It scared the bee geezus out of me, but sounded funny too but after a few days it started making more sense.

  • @martymcmannis9121
    @martymcmannis9121 Před 5 lety

    thanks for the video
    there ya go Miss Kelly, I wish you could hear my voice. God bless
    and I wish I could give this to anyone who needs it

    • @stevethomas-cc5lz
      @stevethomas-cc5lz Před 5 lety +1

      im going to need all your wishes and blessings next spring 2019. im going in to have this done. ive been very hard of hearing for 40 years. i want to hear again.

    • @kyledraganov
      @kyledraganov  Před 5 lety

      @@stevethomas-cc5lz I just saw your post. Have you got the cochlear implant yet? Hope it helps. It's not perfect, but has helped our communication it a major way. She can't really enjoy music as she used to, but we cam have in depth conversations again. She really loves that she can hear birds again. :-)

  • @Anzuri
    @Anzuri Před 6 lety +8

    Kelly is so pretty!

  • @claudec2588
    @claudec2588 Před 6 lety +1

    I wish you had not stopped the video. This was ALL very interesting. It's been 3 years since this was posted. Are there updates?

    • @kyledraganov
      @kyledraganov  Před 6 lety +13

      She has had the Cochlear Implants for over 3 year. She lost all of her hearing because of medication she had to take after a double lung transplant. So, she had no hearing for close to a year. That year was a mix of emotions... we were so thankful that she was alive because of the transplant... but, our conversation was limited to very basic sign language. The Cochlear's allowed us to engage in meaningful conversation again. It's not perfect hearing, she really can't distinguish music and sometimes hears words wrong (especially in loud environments), but beyond that we've been given a great gift that we can talk and have meaningful conversations again. That, and since she takes them off to sleep, I don't wake her with my snoring anymore. ;-)

  • @chasingthelight7139
    @chasingthelight7139 Před 2 lety

    Kelly...she's a keeper

  • @sambarreto9639
    @sambarreto9639 Před 4 lety

    Thank God she's doing really well,Nice.

  • @nancyflaherty7038
    @nancyflaherty7038 Před 3 lety

    This is beautiful!

  • @daveschwartz9712
    @daveschwartz9712 Před 4 lety

    Glad it all works out for you. You deserve a Medal from the President for what you have been through

  • @suzannemistretta9275
    @suzannemistretta9275 Před 5 lety +4

    so exciting. I'm on the journey!!

    • @MICKEYISLOWD
      @MICKEYISLOWD Před 3 lety

      How did it work out..?

    • @lesskinner8588
      @lesskinner8588 Před 2 lety

      @@MICKEYISLOWD SPEAK UP !! Lol.
      I've just had my surgery nearly 6 weeks ago, and the cochlear turned on for 3 weeks.
      It's amazing tech, life changing, but yeah a learning curve involved.

  • @111111111Tiger
    @111111111Tiger Před 3 lety

    Awesome for Kelly !

  • @saltyswamper2113
    @saltyswamper2113 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Is this Elizabeth C. ?

  • @weldorworx6858
    @weldorworx6858 Před 4 lety

    Hoping all is well still
    🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

  • @subaruwrx3381
    @subaruwrx3381 Před 4 lety +1

    Cochlear implants from Australia with love

  • @blankihernandez6529
    @blankihernandez6529 Před 5 lety

    A esta doctora la quiero yo. Lástima que estoy en chiapas. Mexico

  • @vgrof2315
    @vgrof2315 Před rokem

    Bravo!

  • @Ibrahim-cs3qj
    @Ibrahim-cs3qj Před 2 lety

    Where is here

  • @renemanuel7128
    @renemanuel7128 Před 2 lety

    Like my former teacher when she heard her voice on a tape recorder versus hearing from from inside out.

  • @mikey-mot
    @mikey-mot Před 3 lety

    Awesome! ❤

  • @patgarrett2152
    @patgarrett2152 Před 5 lety +1

    It's good to see adults get the implant, I have heard that some in the deaf community are very much against them, WHY?

  • @Spillinsanity72
    @Spillinsanity72 Před 3 lety +1

    "Sound Of Metal" brought me here.

  • @frankoptis
    @frankoptis Před 3 lety

    If it's still hard without visual cues, the doctor should have tried to go a little bit louder on the volume.

  • @ElliLavender
    @ElliLavender Před 2 lety

    that's fascinating! I honestly didn't know that patients with a new cochlear implant can understand words so quickly. I thought the brain needs more time to adapt tbh!

    • @juliap.5375
      @juliap.5375 Před rokem

      People have different brains. Look how some singers can use dozens languages, without accent (you know, different language have different sounds, often unique for language). They just hear example and immediately repeat it. While majority of people, regular people, even can’t understand and repeat what they just heard, they need months to hear and often years to repeat correctly.
      Aa example watch video “Alisa Supronova Katysha”, girl sing in 40 different languages.

    • @hairtoss7975
      @hairtoss7975 Před rokem +2

      4:25 - She lost her hearing, she wasn't born deaf, so she already knew what the words are, she just had to remember/reactivate/retrain her brain.

  • @robertfulton1991
    @robertfulton1991 Před 4 lety

    I have tinnitus really bad I sometimes have a hard time hearing clearly when someone is talking to me. Has anyone ever tried to see if cochlear implant would help someone like me ?

    • @lesskinner8588
      @lesskinner8588 Před 2 lety +1

      2 years ago, shame no reply.
      Do you also have hearing loss, medical or noise induced ?
      Hearing aids can reduce tinnitus, cochlear can help too . . . the brain wants to hear those missing tones, or more normal noise in general.
      There's not much that can cure it, sound therapy with / without hearing aids can help some, takes a while to start to work apparently.
      I have severe noise induced hearing loss from 42 years of working life, thankfully not much tinnitus, I know many that have said it's maddening.

  • @renemanuel7128
    @renemanuel7128 Před 2 lety

    Yes on the little ones.

  • @rickyvilorio8398
    @rickyvilorio8398 Před 3 lety

    Hola soy Ricky vilorio🙏👂Gaspar Hernández👂🙏

  • @tipoftheicebergicy6448

    How can she talk so well?

    • @kyledraganov
      @kyledraganov  Před 3 lety +4

      She only lost her hearing in her early 40s, due to medication she was taking after having a double lung transplant. So, at the time of this video she had only had hearing loss for about a year and a half.

  • @calvingarrett3245
    @calvingarrett3245 Před 2 lety

    Well I've been watching a few of these videos and they put this thing on their ear? That's not a implant that's just a upgraded hearing aid the way I see it there's no implant to do with this and if I'm wrong please enlighten me.

    • @juliap.5375
      @juliap.5375 Před rokem

      You are wrong. Do you see that thing, some disk on cord which she put somewhere to back side of head? She connected it right to implant.

    • @calvingarrett3245
      @calvingarrett3245 Před rokem

      @@juliap.5375 Yes I forgot to correct my comment before I seen how they were doing that but it was a few videos later when I actually seen how they were doing it thank you for bringing it to my attention

  • @adart2496
    @adart2496 Před 2 lety

    I’d would love to know what her voice sounded like before she lost her hearing. I imagine if u can’t hear, you phonate differently. Lovely sounding voice now, though, regardless.

    • @kyledraganov
      @kyledraganov  Před 2 lety

      Her voice actually never changed. She had hearing loss for a little over a year. Though, when her cochlear is not on, she sometimes doesn’t know how loud she’s talking.

    • @adart2496
      @adart2496 Před 2 lety

      @@kyledraganov Oh! Thank you. What a great spirit she is.

  • @leefithian3704
    @leefithian3704 Před 4 lety

    I guess if you’re already deaf from listening to loud music , you can make the switch , and then listen as loud as you want

  • @Ibrahim-cs3qj
    @Ibrahim-cs3qj Před 2 lety

    I have a deaf brother please answer me ,where is here

    • @kyledraganov
      @kyledraganov  Před 2 lety

      This is in South Carolina, USA.

    • @Ibrahim-cs3qj
      @Ibrahim-cs3qj Před 2 lety

      @@kyledraganov thank you for answer, how you know that.Could you say which hospital is it and number or email of hospital

  • @CMTZ11
    @CMTZ11 Před 2 lety

    So we are going to play some soothing sounds to test out for you
    “Hello, my name is Morgan Freeman and I want to tell you the story of apple pie”

  • @josephborrero3202
    @josephborrero3202 Před 7 lety +3

    the best things in life are free.💃😀😆

  • @magoolew5131
    @magoolew5131 Před 3 lety

    She's a cutie.

  • @faizahhussain8532
    @faizahhussain8532 Před 5 lety

    Can u be a gangster if ur deaf
    Naaah

  • @keeponkeepingon4357
    @keeponkeepingon4357 Před 2 lety

    Play them some zeppelin

  • @111MyTube1111
    @111MyTube1111 Před 7 měsíci

    Bap bap bah

  • @gkprivate433
    @gkprivate433 Před 2 lety

    We should spend billions on things such as this instead trying to land on the moon again

  • @meharazhossainriyadh4908

    আমি লিখতে পারিনা
    আমি পড়তে পারি না
    কানে শুনি না
    কথা বলতে পারি না
    বাক প্রতিবন্ধী--

  • @inkblot131
    @inkblot131 Před 4 lety

    Patient looks like "BBT's' Penny.

  • @Wowwwzaaa
    @Wowwwzaaa Před 3 lety +1

    The audiologist should turn her back...not allow her to read lips at the start

  • @lewishobbs9549
    @lewishobbs9549 Před 2 lety

    Good for hearing people not for deaf people ,…. put device in my skull (brain) no thank you. Hearing Aid will do ,…..wonder if you have heart can have electric shock your heart will it burn your brain ?

    • @kyledraganov
      @kyledraganov  Před 2 lety +3

      I’ve never heard anything about electric shock concerns. It doesn’t actually touch the brain, the line goes outside skull to the cochlea. But, I do know that if she needs an MRI, the implant needs to be removed. She tried hearing aids, those did not work. She had almost total hearing loss when she got the implants. I do know that many who are born deaf are not interested, but for someone who had hearing her whole life this has been an amazing help for her.