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• Implanted 2006
• Business Owner

I was diagnosed with a sensineural hearing loss in my early thirties. At the time I was a mother of five, a part-time teacher, volunteer, and wedding & funeral singer. So this diagnosis & news was devastating to me. I went into hearing aids and made the best of it for thirty years, because there was no other solution available. I had been singing professionally with my husband in vocal jazz groups, then we started singing as a duo for many paid & charity gigs around our area. After putting up with high quality aids that still squeaked, squealed, & amplified loud noises, we were forced to quit singing altogether! Phone conversations were almost impossible & if you take them off to talk, somehow they get lost! I found myself in embarrassing situations when people asked me questions that I didn't hear correctly & I would give an inappropriate answer or just smile and look foolish.

 

• Implanted 2005
• Business Transfer Advisor

My name is Brent and I am thankful for so much in my life!  My beautiful wife, Barbara, is my best friend and my true inspiration!  Our family consists of 3 wonderful children, Emma, Lauren and Ethan, who make us proud every day!  I have a loving mother and father who have been married for over 40 years and 3 younger siblings, who I am grateful to claim as great friends.  I am also quite fortunate to still have all 4 grandparents in my life.

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• Implanted 2008
• Writer/Producer/Director

As a broadcast writer/producer/director, I have learned that people use most of their senses when being informed or entertained. Much of my career has been in television production, having worked at a local CBS affiliate in Phoenix for 25 years before branching out as an independent.

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• Implanted 2008
• Cowgirl

August 2008 was the beginning of an extraordinary change in my life.  The Esteem is now "turned on".  Two months earlier, as a participant in the Envoy Clinical Trial, the Esteem hearing restoration device was implanted in one ear.

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• Implanted 2005
• Writer

I’ve been an Esteem recipient for five years. In 2004, I saw a TV trailer for a totally implantable hearing system. Hands shaking, within five minutes, I sent an email and applied to the research program. Finding I’d missed Phase I, I waited – an impatient, anxious five months – for Phase II.

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• Implanted 2006
• Salesperson & Mother of Two

I am 30 years old and the mother of a six year old little girl and a three year old little boy.  We have a genetic form of sensironeural hearing loss that dates back six generations in my family.  My ancestors met at a deaf school and married each other.  In my immediate family alone, my father, two brothers, and I all have hearing loss.

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• Implanted 2006
• Salesperson & Mother of Two

I am thirty-five years old and the mother of two boys now ages eight and five.  Just four years ago, my life changed dramatically when I opted to be a patient in the clinical trials for the Esteem implant.