Cochlear implant

A professor's perspective
For 30 years he could hear normally. Then antibiotics made his world silent.

Physics professor Ian Shipsey lost his hearing after taking strong antibiotics while undergoing chemotherapy. After becoming deaf, Shipsey spent years conducting research at Purdue until he was finally offered a teaching position.

"Teaching while being deaf really brings you down from the pedestal," said Shipsey. "I had to find new ways to interact with students."

In 2002, Shipsey decided to get a cochlear implant. He went through eight unpleasant weeks of healing before doctors could activate his implant. During the activation, Shipsey began to ask, "Have you turned on this device yet?" Before he finished the sentence, he heard his own voice for the first time in 12 years. Soon he was able to hear the voices of his wife and daughter.

"It was amazing," he said. "I had my daughter read me stories as soon as I got home."
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Prof Shipsey was my Physic's prof. one of the reason i got A for the class :) actually i liked his English ascent and stories about his Italian wife and of course, his way of conducting the class. Sometimes, it's the daily demo forced me to way up and go to class. huhuh