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" Picnik Show " Create a free slideshow with Picnik! http://www.doorinternational.com/news/door-india-celebration OVER 1200 JUBILANT DEAF INDIANS, PACKED INTO A CONCERT HALL IN THE SOUTH OF INDIA, WITNESSED HISTORY ON JANUARY 30TH, AS AN INDIGENOUS DEAF TRANSLATION TEAM DEDICATED GOD'S WORD INTO THE LOCAL SIGN LANGUAGE.

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.