Personal Narrative: My Cochlear Adaptation

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It’s been 7 years since I lost my hearing… I can define it as rock climbing, it can be an hardcore work to reach to the top of the mountain, the rocks falling near me, my hands and feet getting swollen and my muscles feeling burn all of that didn’t matter once I could hear again using my cochlear implant. Once I was at the top. I didn’t have to deal with a loss anymore because I wasn’t losing anything I was gaining one of senses back, the one that allowed me to be independent again. With my cochlear implant I am part of this wonderful world of sounds my voice is louder, clear and powerful. I have more power under my control than any other hearing person in the world! I can control volume, sensibility; I can hear people whispering, the water

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