CI: Cochlear Implant -Success? Failure?

Here's a video of a "Bionic" woman, who has had the surgery, and is having it adjusted. Apparently, the surgery is not as bad as it used to be.

http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=a8s5nvega9tp

It's hard to get any neutral ideas about CI (Cochlear Implants), because most people are highly passionate both ways - either for or against them.

There are many anecdotal pieces from both sides, but hardly a way to see successes/failures together. How would someone know how to choose?

Plus, there is the issue of being "almost hearing" and "almost deaf" at the same time - kind of between to worlds, two very different cultures. Sometimes receiving support from the Deaf, and not fitting in with the hearing, and sometimes vice versa.

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