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I am deaf. I lost most of my hearing when I was 20 years old and it has been 15 years since I became entirely deaf. I now use a “CI”: A Cochlea Implant, which has an external part and an internal part. The external part is a sound processor that picks up sound waves, digitizes them, and transfers them to the inner part. The internal part consists of electrodes implanted into the person, which stimulate the hearing nerves, permitting the brain to interpret that stimulus as sound. The external part is removed for sleeping, because otherwise it could be damaged.
Translated by Ilan Kelman.
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Josefsen, Å.Ø. (2015). Don’t Let Me Burn!. In: Kelman, I., Stough, L.M. (eds) Disability and Disaster. Disaster Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137486004_12
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