There are so many people I am thankful for in my life, and I’ve said so many times throughout my blog. My family and my husband’s have all been very supportive to me through so many years of deafness before my Cochlear implant, but today there’s also another I’m so very grateful for.
I’ve seen an enormous amount of posts across the web from so many who are thankful about various people and things (yay food!), and I couldn’t go without posting my own warm and fuzzy thoughts.
I’m thankful today, Thanksgiving day, for this man.
I thank God today for Professor Graeme Clark.
I’m thankful that Professor Clark had the tenacity to succeed and successfully implanted the very first multi-channel bionic ear and cochlear implant. If it hadn’t been for his perseverance, despite so much stacked against him, I wouldn’t be hearing during my very first winter Thanksgiving after being deaf for so many years.
Many, many thank you’s to Professor Clark and to Cochlear Americas for what they began and what they continue to do.
“In spite of the problems and criticisms, I just had to go on. A cochlear implant was their only hope of ever hearing.” – Professor Graeme Clark
Diary of a deaf girl 
Posted by rhonda on November 24, 2011 at 9:22 pm
My CI surgery is in exactly one week. All throughout today as I was hearing with my hearing aids, yet still missing out on conversations and laughter, I kept thinking “how is next year’s Thanksgiving going to be like with my CI.”. I’m so thankful for yours and other’s blogs who have helped me learn about CIs and give me the hope that a Cohlear Implant can and will help me.
Posted by Angela on November 25, 2011 at 4:05 pm
I’m so glad I could help in any way. Congratulations on your upcoming surgery and I wish you the very best!
Posted by Chronicles of a Bionic Woman on November 25, 2011 at 4:49 am
I am thankful too! God bless you Prof. Clark! May there be more pioneers like him in the near future!
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