i have a cochlear and after being totally deaf for a number of years within a few minutes of it being switched on i could hear the hear the audioligists and within 2 hoursi heard the train announce you are now approaching boxhill. . The unit is on from when i wake to going to sleep. I can only have one due to health problems. Wonderful to see others receiving the cochlear and enyoying it.

Tugs my heart when I am fortunate enough to see pure joy like this. Makes me want to give her a hug, cheer her on, clap for her, smile at her, enjoy the moment with her. These always give me joy too.

This might be one of the greatest jobs on the planet. To give people the gift of hearing and to be there to to witness their reaction the first time has got to make going in to work each day a highly rewarding experience.

@kevindevilliers3572

9 ай бұрын

Agree 100%.

I always think that the greatest moment must be when a person hears their own name spoken for the first time. "That's what I am called, that's ME!"

A very wonderful gift she was given after many years of being deaf. We who hear do take it for granted. This lady understands how her new ability to hear will change her life for the better. I’m so happy for her. ❤

I wish someone would hug her.

This happened to me......but it was hearing aids......I was 80%deaf and didn't even know.....I couldn't always hear what people were saying so I got tested and found out that I needed hearing aids......when I put them in.....I became so emotional, I was in a new world.....music sounded awesome, peoples voices, birds waves on the beach, everything was different.....but awesome

So wonderful to see this moment. Brought me to tears. May God really bless Jo Milne.

@graxxor

9 ай бұрын

We probably should thank the doctors.

@briantitchener4829

9 ай бұрын

@@graxxor oh yes, the doctors, the givers of life. I forgot.

@douglasbaiense

9 ай бұрын

@@graxxor and SCIENCE!

@bustinnutsinslutsbutts

9 ай бұрын

​@@graxxorfucking edgy.

@jakerazmataz852

9 ай бұрын

@@graxxor Engineers. Doctors put it in. Engineers created it. Probably some with a medical background.

That is what real gratitude looks like.

I hope she realizes how many strangers to her who have watched this video also have tears in our eyes. Thank you for reminding her that this is life-changing for her. Bravo, Joanne, and welcome to the world of words…poetry…and, yes, music! ❤

@MrPlatani

6 ай бұрын

I don't want to seem insensitive but I would have expected more empathy from the doctor.

@kevindevilliers3572

6 ай бұрын

I agree, she should have got up and hugged her.

@MrPlatani

6 ай бұрын

@@kevindevilliers3572 Maybe the doctor has gotten used to the image of patients in tears ahahahahaha she no longer notices it. Happy new year !!

This is a miracle. May this work for anyone else with this hearing issue.

Those days make me cry too, especially the work days.

I think here joy has us all in tears. Thank you for sharing.

Let me never take anything for granted ever again, like the simple everyday things I just accept w/o question or thought. 🖖

I’m SO thrilled for Joann!!!!!

I can pick up Joanne's British accent even through all the happy tears!

I'm 6ft 4in, almost 300 lbs. If medical science could get me an artificial pancreas to make insulin after mine was killed off by my immune system in 1985, I'd bawl like a baby too.

Invented and manufactured in Australia by a brilliant individual and organisation.

This is absolutely moving!!

God bless the woman helping her.

Impossible not to shed tears watching this.

@MrPlatani

6 ай бұрын

I don't want to seem insensitive but I would have expected more empathy from the doctor.

What a beautiful moment. Thank you for sharing it with us.

So pleased for her.

Great video! How touching. My uncle has been deaf since childhood. He has been presented with the chance to get his earing back in the past, but refused. I think he just feels like he's "normal" already and doesn't see any reason to change.

Made me cry

We humans can feel for others; sharing their joy and sorrow.

I need one of these EVERY day!!!

I came across these two ladies in the park one day that were balling their eyes out and I stopped to ask if they were okay and the one told me about the other having those implants put in and she was crying because she could hear it. Birds and all the sounds of nature. I'm not going to lie it got to me too once I realize the reality of being able to hear things you've never heard before.

"It sounds very very high" "YES....im gonna speak in a higher pitch as the video goes on...lol" In all seriousness, it's amazing that people who can't hear can have these moments and it makes you realise how lucky you are to have these senses

Thank God for this technology.🙏

What an incredibly happy emotional event🙏

What a wonderful day for a sweet woman. Nice to see her experiencing her first sensation of sound. ❤

I found this very emotional

Bless you, Joann ❤❤❤

Aww bless you Jo honey. Such a beautiful girl xxx

Heart warming to see her life changed in a few minutes, something medical science got right. We take for granted being able to hear and see the world and this really bought home for me how lucky we are. Hopefully the tech will improve and a similar technology, although more complex can bring sight to the blind. Be interested to know how the hearing these implants produce changes over time, how does it compare to normal hearing over say one year once the brain has adapted to the information stream the CI produces. I suppose it's a hard question unless you became deaf after being able to hear and have a point of reference.

God Bless you ! The world can be wonderful !!!

She's got the best job in the world❤

It’s a beautiful story and outcome, I just feel it’s so sad that people have to wait until adulthood before they get one, all the things they missed out on when in childhood. We all take our hearing and sight for granted, let’s hope more can be done to help those who need it as early as possible 🙏

Oh the tears I shed!!

Hi normal people, just be grateful for your healthy ears and eyes! Love each other. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

So happy for you!! ❤

A huge moment in her life and a positive one at that.

Bless her ❤

Congratulations, Joanne

Geeze, the woman is overwhelmed and the other lady is like a robot! "I'm going to say the blablablabla... did you hear those words?" Bawling, hands quivering..... ...... hug her for heavens sake!!!!!!

Just before you start talking you need to get the tissues out and get ready to give hugs, but ask first. Bravo

A beautiful life changing. I don't really understand how the people who never heard before understand the sense of the words they are suddenly hearing, it is something to read or to sign ,but how to put a sense of the noise each word means ? ( Sorry I know it does sound clear either what I mean).

It's absolutely beautiful.

God bless her.

Wonderful.

What a gift!

Beautiful!!

Be God be with you…God us so excited for you! Thank Heavenly Father ✨so happy for you ! Praise God . Be blessed.♥️🛐✝️☮️

Bless her lord ❤😂

Beautiful

Wonderful

First thing I’d do after giving her a hug is to play Elvis Presley songs for her. 🎶!!!

Amazing....

Why does nobody comfort her ??

So beautiful

Makes me weepy.

I just kept thinking, “play her some Mozart!!”

The things we take for granted ❤️this is everything 🥹 im crying too

I would play her some beautiful music. Perhaps Ben E. King singing Stand By Me.

Can deaf people understand a voice speaking as they haven’t heard it before so would it be like mumble jumble if they weren’t lip reading?

@2degucitas

9 ай бұрын

It depends. If they were born profoundly deaf, then yes those sounds are totally new to hear. If they were hard of hearing, then the sounds are familiar but clearer. 🎉

I disagree with the audiologist lady about not turning down the "high pitch" sounds Joanne was hearing. I know what I'm talking about. I am for once received 2 cochlear hearing devices, one in each ear, back in 2011. Hearing for the first time takes a lot of patience and time to get used to the sounds slowly. On the "high pitch" sounds that Joanne had mentioned, the audiologist should have tune the high pitch down to a certain level that Joanne was comfortable at. Those tunes are coming from the computer that control what the deaf people hear. I feel sorry for Joanne for her 1st experienced that the video looked to me 9 years ago. Most likely today, Joanne processor have been adjusted better to where she is comfortable at. The high pitched sounds are so annoying to hear all day long. For example, I can hear the Red or Brown Canary Birds sounds and it's high pitched. I cannot imagine hearing a loud high pitch sounds everyday. You simply cannot get along with hearing high pitch sounds all day/night. I do tell my audiologist how I am hearing and before I leave her room, I make sure I am satisfied. Congrats Joanne. I hope you are happy.

are these people deaf from birth? if so, how do they recognize the sound of words and know their meaning?

@lss74

9 ай бұрын

I thought this

@cjmacq-vg8um

9 ай бұрын

@@lss74... yep. it doesn't make any sense does it? humanity faces a big problem. people go through life just believing whatever they hear or see online. they don't ask questions or analyze anything. they just accept whatever they're told as true. even when it doesn't make any sense. that level of naïveté and gullibility isn't a good thing.

@Atlantis.Reborn

9 ай бұрын

It's called months and months of therapy. Maybe you should volunteer in one of these institutions which help the deaf, you will learn much! Ignorance imprisons! Knowledge liberates!

@cjmacq-vg8um

9 ай бұрын

@@Atlantis.Reborn ... you kidding? since i've been 6 months old i've been essentially deaf. none of these places ever offered me any help. furthermore these people seem to understand language upon immediately hearing it. not after months and months. so your comment didn't answer my question. remember - "Ignorance imprisons! Knowledge liberates!" i think i read that somewhere.

I allmost start crying myself,,,,,,, wow 👍🌷 enjoy 😃

Fantastiskt, You are great.....All hope too you, in a good days ...forward in time..mvh Magnus Lemhage Skövde Sweden 🙂👍❤

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Thank you. Just thank you so much. It is beautiful to see this.

How does this lady know what "high" sounds like? Could she hear a little.

@mplsmark222

10 ай бұрын

My guess is even though she is deaf, she still could feel vibrations. The brain can be hyper sensitive to other stimuli when one is missing. She has developed a speaking voice and can feel the vibrations in her head and must have always imagined what other people’s voices sounded like too. With her implants, she could finally put it all together, what a wonderful technology.

@timower5850

10 ай бұрын

@@mplsmark222 But "high" is something that she needed to have associated with the word. Not hearing at all I think would have precluded that.

@EPalsson

9 ай бұрын

I wondered if she was confusing "high" and "loud".

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Give the woman a damn tissue Please

Give her a tissue❤

that is nice to hear someones voice but after a few weeks se figures out that the nurse has a high pitch voice and its not the hearing aid

She needed a Happiness hug. And she did not get one.🤣🤣🤣

Would a person with one of these hear their own voice differently as normal hearing people sound different to themselves as sound passes through bone?

@vickil6325

10 ай бұрын

Yes they would. I do since I wear two cochlear devices, one in each ear. I can tell that my voice isn't the same as normal hearing people have. I don't know why that is since my voice worked but it could be that I didn't get any trained on my voice when I was small. My parents found out I was hard of hearing at the age of 4 years old. That was in the 1950's time. If I got my hearing aid sooner before turning 1 year old and whenever I begins to talk, maybe I would have more control of my voice. I get people asking me where do I come from? (speaking of being at another country) I have an accent when I speak. All these years, I'm used to hearing something different and this doesn't change the way I speak out. My cats loves me and that's enough for me. I hope I answers your question.

@ImCarolB

10 ай бұрын

Even for hearing people, our voices sound different to us than to others. I am always slightly surprised by recordings of my voice. I notice that I sound like my mother, which I don't hear while speaking.

In all fairness, the nurse does have a high pitched voice

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Give the lady a tissue!

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If she never heard before how could she understand the words?

"My voice will sound high at first." Nah, it always will.

I have a deaf brother please please answer me ,where is here

@user-rx4jg8lq7h

Жыл бұрын

I wish you and your brother very well. In answer, this is a charity in the UK/England that helps deaf people.

I wanted 2 share with Joann my god parents were deaf and they never got the chance 2 have what u have god did this 4 such a pretty women they should make a movie about u love Mr.Albert J Stelletell!

What an audiologist so insensitive to the patient. He seems stone, unable to support this woman's emotional moment. He would never seek her out or recommend her to anyone.🤦🏻‍♀️😡

If these videos aren't sponsored by Kleenex, they should be.

What I don’t understand is: How does a person who’s been deaf understand words they’ve not heard? Would they need sign language to accompany the spoken word to understand?

@gary.h.turner

9 ай бұрын

In this case, she's probably helped by lip reading.

Please play her some music…..

This thanks to brilliant minds and science. Take that all you science deniers . All the prayers in the world wouldn't do this.

Um, science

happy for here but why no hug,, no tissue.. just film it,, smh

Couldn't leave it on 666 likes!

It a fake video no way josa, had bad teeth all my life , it’s only about the Benjamin 10,000 dollars no way

Australian invention

That woman spoke to her as if she was a child .

Now hopefully they can restore her sight so she won't wear those horrible pants again.

Im curious to know how much cochlear implant patients speaking and diction improves , if at all, over time. . . . . . Of course Im talking about people who never heard before as opposed to people who lost their hearing due to age, injury or disease