Over the past three or four months, I've gone from being able to hear, to total deafness, to a restoration of hearing through a cochlear implant. I'm so touched by all those in our extended EIB family pulling, praying and pushing for me. This recap of my announcement of autoimmune inner-ear disease - AIED - explains just what the affliction and the cochlear implant are. People have written and called asking for the facts, so here they are.(November 19, 2001: Bionic Rush 2002)
(December 11, 2001:...

I also want to make sure the story gets out with all the facts, because I'm a facts-first kind of guy. So I have always come before the Golden EIB Microphone and shared with you the truth of my hearing loss - and now, of the technology to restore it. We've linked below to all the information on my situation, including the latest on having my cochlear implant "programmed" or "mapped," as I put it.
Based on my tests, I am about six to eight months ahead of the average recipient in understanding...