Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007

R.I.P Sten Harris
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Sten Harris died yesterday, after a long time of illness. Sten worked at Rikshospitalet for many years, operating most of the CI-operations up until now. He was a true CI-pioneer in Norway. His illness and following death is probably one of the reasons that Rikshospitalet has problems with the capacity of performing CI-operations these days. [...]
Tech Fri, May 09 2008 · hide this blog

Audio depth perception (and pitch)
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Thanks to all friends who responded about my question of wether to fight for bilateral from the start-line or do one by one... The decision has now been made I want stereo!!! I want depth perception and I want my pitch back.... This image is a good analogy of the sound-problem I have these days. Try [...]
Tech Fri, May 02 2008 · hide this blog

The rings of Saturn - simultaneous bilateral CI-surgery?
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 The Sahara desert, where I was recently, is like a window to the universe. I was excited to be able to see Saturn with my very own eyes through a telescope. Fantastic! Just like the picture above. The thought just came to me; In space there is no sound. Sound carries through air. No air [...]
Tech Sun, Apr 27 2008 · hide this blog

My letter to the Norwegian Treasury Department
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 The text has been translated and changed some, compared to the original letter in Norwegian. My status and reason for writing this letter: I have been hard of hearing all my life, and at the same time I have been working like everybody else at 100% in the IT-industry for as long as I could. Never learned [...]
Tech Fri, Apr 04 2008 · hide this blog

Minister of Health in Norway guarantees CI-operations for...
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 This is a translated, abridged, shortened and reworked version of a Norwegian article found on HLF's website. Guarantees CI-operations and screening of infants. Norwegian Minister of Health, Sylvia Brustad gurantees that screening of hearing on infants and CI-operations will be carried out, regardless of the cutbacks at Rikshopitalet. In response to MP Berit B...
Tech Culture Tue, Apr 01 2008 · hide this blog

The cost of a CI-operation?
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Can anyone tell me the cost of a CI-operation? Either for one ear, or simultaneously both ears? I would like to “hear” (pun intended ) from everyone who has knowledge about it... On a personal note... My writing is a bit slow these days, I hit a mental bump in the road caused by these budget cuts [...]
Tech Thu, Mar 13 2008 · hide this blog

Open Source Project for finding subtitles
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Find new subtitles in a whiff! When TV-networks doesn't caption their popular shows, deaf and people with reduced hearing are discriminated. On the Internet and by the use of home computers, there is a way around this. Most of the activity related to this is by copyright laws and such, regarded as illegal in various countries. [...]
Tech Wed, Mar 05 2008 · hide this blog

Norwegian translation "Recruitment": Om fenomenet...
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Artikkel av Dr. Neil:Forklaring av “recruitment” ifbm hørselsnedsettelse © Juni 2001 by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Norsk oversettelse: Stein Thomassen, www.tinnitus-tips.noLink til originalen: www.hearinglosshelp.com/articles/recruitment.htmDu kan kontakte Dr. Neil på neil@hearinglosshelp.com Spørsmål: Enkelte mennesker kan ikke bruke høreapparater fordi de har...
Tue, Mar 04 2008 · hide this blog

Captioned video of me on national news 27.02.2008
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007
Media Language Tech Fri, Feb 29 2008 · hide this blog

The health debate in Norway (it’s all about personal...
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Just wrote a short piece in a comment-field about the political game that is ongoing in health-Norway right now: (sorry for not translating to english right now) This is in response to the main article in Dagbladets online news this morning. Alle debattinnleggene her har litt rett. Det er blitt en catch22-situasjon og nå er det et [...]
Culture Fri, Feb 29 2008 · hide this blog

An update about the CI-situation in Norway feb 29th 2008...
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 This article is from hlf.no Garanterte CI-operasjoner – og måtte gå Styremøtet på Rikshospitalet torsdag ble meget dramatisk. Først garanterte direktør Åge Danielsen at Rikshospitalet vil levere CI-operasjoner til voksne og barn som bestilt i oppdragsdokumentet fra helseministeren. Så fikk han sparken. Klokken 00.20 natt til fredag fikk administrerende direktør Åge ...
Tech Culture Fri, Feb 29 2008 · hide this blog

I was on national news today
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Here is original video from NRK. The piece where I appear begins about 7 minutes into the news... It's in Norwegian, of course [link] I'm working on the video-file, but unfortunately the overstream.net-service written about here earlier is undergoing maintenance due to high demand (!!!).Will post video here later with English captions... For Eng...
Legal Culture Wed, Feb 27 2008 · hide this blog

Status update II
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Where to begin??? Well, since my last “Status update from Nov. 6th 2007” (where everything is still valid, I won't repeat everything) some things has changed. Overall everything is a little bit worse. Tinnitus is loud, perhaps more constant, fatigue is a bit more severe. I get tired a lot faster from a lot less sound. [...]
Language Tech Tue, Feb 26 2008 · hide this blog

Localization with single CI
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 A fellow CI blogger, Michael Chorost, the author of “Rebuilt”, recently wrote about an experience concerning localization with his bilateral CI's.I just found this article in the Laryngoscope, to back up his findings with facts (all the way at the bottom ): Localization by Postlingually Deafened Adults Fitted With a Single Cochlear Implant. Laryngo...
Mon, Feb 04 2008 · hide this blog

Captioning videos @ Overstream.net!
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 One of my CI-blogfriends, Abbie (Chronicles of a bionic woman), recently created this captioned CI-activation-video! For all of us who can't understand spoken words very well, this is a gift!Thank you Abbie, for letting us really participate in your experience. I learned a lot just from understanding what your audie says!!! I saw this video [...]
Language Tech Fri, Feb 01 2008 · hide this blog

Vestibular disorder symptoms I have experienced
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 I came across an interesting website for an organization called VEDA (VEstibular Disorder Association). I found this list of possible symptoms that is very interesting. Image copied from “vestibular system.” Online Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 23 Jan. 2008Here is an explanation of the Vestibular system. I did not initially place all these ...
Wed, Jan 23 2008 · hide this blog

Explaining the analogy: "Recruitment" of hair cells in...
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 During my research into my own declining hearing- and health condition, I came across information about a phenomenon regarding hair cells in cochlea called “recruitment”. I strongly suspect “recruitment” is what happens to me. It certainly would explain a lot of the things that happen(ed) to me and my hearing and the fatigue... (Most of [...
Tech Tue, Jan 22 2008 · hide this blog

Dreaming in captioning?
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Ever imagined getting captioning in your dreams? I recieived a question from one reader yesterday that made me analyze my way of dreaming. The question was wether I hear sounds in my dreams or not, being almost deaf and having lived with hearing aids since the age of 4. As opposed to people who has been [...]
Tech Thu, Jan 17 2008 · hide this blog

What I hear (or what’s left)
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 It would be a good idea for me to put down some kind of status as to how my hearing is these days (as a baseline): Without my hearing aids I can barely hear: My son singing at certain notes at the top of his voice (gives me echo-effect on that frequency until I hear new sounds) A [...]
Art and Storytelling Tech Wed, Jan 16 2008 · hide this blog

Mentally drowned
Becoming Deaf in Norway 2007 Feeling of defeat is not a good feeling. Yesterday I attended my fathers 60th anniversary celebration and had some experiences with my hearing, or rather, the lack of hearing... In the days up to his celebration yesterday, I had my son with me as I usually have every second (extended) weekend. This time I really had [...]
Art and Storytelling Tech Sun, Jan 13 2008 · hide this blog