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Wasn't aware that anyone was actually reading my blog...I didn't expect anyone to find it, let alone comment on it.

But I guess it's just a subject that everyone involved really just wants their opinion out there for. Thanks for commenting on it, I appreciate your thoughts. :D

So, to clarify, I know that speech ability varies from person to person. As my ASL teacher put it, it's like playing piano.

After a few weeks of piano lessons, her friend could play fluidly, but she was still picking notes out with her pointer fingers. Some people have a talent for it, and some people are just not good at it.

I actually have a Deaf friend that I didn't know was deaf until she told me. Her speech is incredible. I thought she might have been a little bit Hard of Hearing, but nope. She's stone Deaf. Can't hear a thing. She also doesn't have an implant.

Her parents have an incredible capacity for languages, though. I guess she inherited that trait. And she's had years of speech therapy.

Oh, hey, funny story. I finally got around to asking my ASL teacher if she saw the House episode, and she responded that she had and hated the ending.

After piquing everyone's interest, I finally told them, "House implanted someone with a Cochlear Implant...without their permission!"

And all at once everyone took in this shocked gasp of sheer horror. Someone even said, "Oh no, House! NO!"

It was hilarious. I think my teacher was especially amused by everyone's reaction because it meant that she'd taught us about Deaf Culture well.

And sometimes I'm almost a little afraid to express my opinion on CI's because I'm afraid of getting chewed out by both sides of the argument.

I actually have a neutral outlook of it. I think it's amazing that we have the technology to do that, since the brain fascinates me, and I didn't realize we had that technology to begin with, until I took the class.

I think if I ever went deaf, yeah, I'd go for the implant, but that's because I'm already /in/ the hearing world.

If my child was born deaf, then I would have to say that, No I wouldn't give them the implant. Not because I'm anti-CI or anything. I just think...well, you know the phrase, "If it's not broken, don't fix it?"

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Right, so no classes for me today, because I started hacking up a color of phlegm I've yet to see....It's not supposed to be brown, right? And with everyone around here freaking out about the five confirmed cases around here, I don't want everyone to think I've got Swine Flu when it's just a throat infection.

Well, since I freaked out the last time because the symptoms matched Mono, I actually did see the doctor it...so technically I guess it's an upper respiratory tract infection. I still don't know why I get them every Winter and Summer, but it means for the next two days I'll be downing Vitamin C like I'm trying to overdose. I need to get better...by tomorrow, if possible, but absolutely need to be back in classes by Friday.

Which I know sounds impossible, but I can attest to the positive effects of Vitamin C. Enough of it can honestly shorten the span of the infection from seven to ten days, to even two days.

I don't know why I've been smelling peaches in my room, but now I really want a peach. I wonder if we have any left?