Joanne Milne hears for the first time after having cochlear implants switched on

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  • Опубліковано 27 бер 2014
  • Joanne Milne is overwhelmed at hearing for the first time after having cochlear implants switched on. Read more at www.sense.org.uk/jo-milne-story

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  • @ImCarolB
    @ImCarolB 10 місяців тому +29

    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!"

  • @billhackett6715
    @billhackett6715 10 місяців тому +31

    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.

  • @penchant1972
    @penchant1972 9 місяців тому +25

    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.

  • @ronaldcole7415
    @ronaldcole7415 10 місяців тому +32

    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.

  • @briantitchener4829
    @briantitchener4829 Рік тому +68

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

    • @graxxor
      @graxxor 9 місяців тому +3

      We probably should thank the doctors.

    • @briantitchener4829
      @briantitchener4829 9 місяців тому

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

    • @douglasbaiense
      @douglasbaiense 9 місяців тому

      @@graxxor and SCIENCE!

    • @bustinnutsinslutsbutts
      @bustinnutsinslutsbutts 9 місяців тому

      ​@@graxxorfucking edgy.

    • @jakerazmataz852
      @jakerazmataz852 9 місяців тому

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

  • @mellow5123
    @mellow5123 10 місяців тому +14

    I wish someone would hug her.

  • @faithhall8175
    @faithhall8175 9 місяців тому +12

    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. ❤

  • @cydkriletich6538
    @cydkriletich6538 9 місяців тому +16

    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
      @MrPlatani 6 місяців тому

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

    • @kevindevilliers3572
      @kevindevilliers3572 6 місяців тому +1

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

    • @MrPlatani
      @MrPlatani 6 місяців тому

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

  • @JonahPedersen-tz3uk
    @JonahPedersen-tz3uk 9 місяців тому +5

    That is what real gratitude looks like.

  • @randyellis9460
    @randyellis9460 9 місяців тому +4

    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

  • @marielucier7982
    @marielucier7982 10 місяців тому +13

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

  • @alanstrong55
    @alanstrong55 10 місяців тому +8

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

  • @rbspider
    @rbspider 9 місяців тому +2

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

  • @PopModalVideos
    @PopModalVideos 10 місяців тому +15

    I’m SO thrilled for Joann!!!!!

  • @panchitoborja
    @panchitoborja 10 років тому +21

    This is absolutely moving!!

  • @BebeesHuman
    @BebeesHuman Рік тому +7

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

  • @kevindevilliers3572
    @kevindevilliers3572 9 місяців тому +4

    Impossible not to shed tears watching this.

    • @MrPlatani
      @MrPlatani 6 місяців тому

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

  • @billyoung8118
    @billyoung8118 9 місяців тому +7

    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.

  • @bajamcguide
    @bajamcguide 9 місяців тому +2

    God bless the woman helping her.

  • @tomjones6777
    @tomjones6777 10 місяців тому +5

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

  • @jonathanross812
    @jonathanross812 9 місяців тому +3

    So pleased for her.

  • @randal_gibbons
    @randal_gibbons 9 місяців тому +5

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

  • @SimonsBand1
    @SimonsBand1 9 місяців тому +6

    "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

  • @wyattfamily8997
    @wyattfamily8997 9 місяців тому +3

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

  • @grahamtempleton1560
    @grahamtempleton1560 10 місяців тому +6

    Made me cry

  • @AhJodie
    @AhJodie 9 місяців тому +2

    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!!!!!!

  • @TomO-nx1bd
    @TomO-nx1bd 9 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @DaneToTheBone
    @DaneToTheBone 9 місяців тому +2

    Bless you, Joann ❤❤❤

  • @alexanderv7702
    @alexanderv7702 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @foxyjazzbopper
    @foxyjazzbopper 9 місяців тому +1

    What an incredibly happy emotional event🙏

  • @albertaowusu3536
    @albertaowusu3536 10 місяців тому +3

    Thank God for this technology.🙏

  • @johnthibodeaux5287
    @johnthibodeaux5287 9 місяців тому +3

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

  • @TheConsettcowboy
    @TheConsettcowboy 2 роки тому +6

    Aww bless you Jo honey. Such a beautiful girl xxx

  • @VernWatson-bd8yk
    @VernWatson-bd8yk 9 місяців тому

    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.

  • @Jack-pu4rf
    @Jack-pu4rf 9 місяців тому +1

    I found this very emotional

  • @garethwatkins6347
    @garethwatkins6347 9 місяців тому +1

    She's got the best job in the world❤

  • @susangibney3805
    @susangibney3805 10 місяців тому +2

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

  • @petewilliams6404
    @petewilliams6404 9 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @138fish
    @138fish 9 місяців тому +1

    So happy for you!! ❤

  • @No2Censoring
    @No2Censoring 9 місяців тому +2

    Bless her ❤

  • @annevanderlaan6441
    @annevanderlaan6441 9 місяців тому

    Oh the tears I shed!!

  • @nineteenfortyeight6762
    @nineteenfortyeight6762 10 місяців тому +1

    Congratulations, Joanne

  • @ThEhObBiT1959
    @ThEhObBiT1959 9 місяців тому

    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 🙏

  • @bishdizzle67
    @bishdizzle67 10 місяців тому +2

    It's absolutely beautiful.

  • @dominicdeheuer937
    @dominicdeheuer937 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @tevya017
    @tevya017 9 місяців тому

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

  • @richardl772
    @richardl772 9 місяців тому

    God bless her.

  • @s.kertanguy8433
    @s.kertanguy8433 9 місяців тому +1

    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).

  • @pigtailtrucker4672
    @pigtailtrucker4672 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @dabprod
    @dabprod 10 місяців тому +1

    Wonderful.

  • @LLBP.
    @LLBP. 9 місяців тому

    Beautiful!!

  • @daveroberts936
    @daveroberts936 10 місяців тому +1

    What a gift!

  • @sylviawhitfield8372
    @sylviawhitfield8372 9 місяців тому +1

    Bless her lord ❤😂

  • @smokey7142
    @smokey7142 9 місяців тому

    Wonderful

  • @mariajenner5486
    @mariajenner5486 10 місяців тому +1

    Beautiful

  • @j.johnson5217
    @j.johnson5217 9 місяців тому

    Amazing....

  • @richardblais7445
    @richardblais7445 9 місяців тому

    So beautiful

  • @marciakirkbride4210
    @marciakirkbride4210 9 місяців тому

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

  • @badapple65
    @badapple65 9 місяців тому

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

  • @cjmacq-vg8um
    @cjmacq-vg8um 10 місяців тому +7

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

    • @lss74
      @lss74 9 місяців тому

      I thought this

    • @cjmacq-vg8um
      @cjmacq-vg8um 9 місяців тому

      @@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
      @Atlantis.Reborn 9 місяців тому +2

      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
      @cjmacq-vg8um 9 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @davidsault9698
    @davidsault9698 9 місяців тому +1

    Makes me weepy.

  • @Investorpotamus
    @Investorpotamus Рік тому +4

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

  • @jeremyreid9582
    @jeremyreid9582 10 місяців тому +3

    Why does nobody comfort her ??

  • @erikhoffa966
    @erikhoffa966 9 місяців тому

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

  • @bozoivankovic2211
    @bozoivankovic2211 9 місяців тому

    😢😢😢😢🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️

  • @switchmuso
    @switchmuso 9 місяців тому

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

  • @alloralodicoio
    @alloralodicoio 9 місяців тому +1

  • @timower5850
    @timower5850 Рік тому +4

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

    • @mplsmark222
      @mplsmark222 10 місяців тому +2

      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
      @timower5850 10 місяців тому +1

      @@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
      @EPalsson 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @lellabellab144
    @lellabellab144 10 місяців тому +3

    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
      @2degucitas 9 місяців тому

      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. 🎉

  • @melissacolon2350
    @melissacolon2350 10 місяців тому +3

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

  • @magnuslemhage1133
    @magnuslemhage1133 10 місяців тому

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

  • @serafinatruth4029
    @serafinatruth4029 9 місяців тому

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

  • @micky3208
    @micky3208 10 місяців тому

    ❤❤😊

  • @BransMaarten
    @BransMaarten 10 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @moraghowiemacdiarmid443
    @moraghowiemacdiarmid443 10 місяців тому +1

    Give the woman a damn tissue Please

  • @mightymissk
    @mightymissk 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @thistledownz.2982
    @thistledownz.2982 9 місяців тому

    Give her a tissue❤

  • @ThingOurs
    @ThingOurs Рік тому +1

    😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @michaelsnell4034
    @michaelsnell4034 10 місяців тому +3

    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
      @vickil6325 10 місяців тому +1

      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
      @ImCarolB 10 місяців тому +1

      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.

  • @NeilJR
    @NeilJR 10 місяців тому

    Give the lady a tissue!

  • @randyp0514
    @randyp0514 9 місяців тому

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

  • @michaelfred8848
    @michaelfred8848 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @roberthudson1959
    @roberthudson1959 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @vickil6325
    @vickil6325 10 місяців тому +6

    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.

  • @Ibrahim-cs3qj
    @Ibrahim-cs3qj 2 роки тому

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

    • @user-rx4jg8lq7h
      @user-rx4jg8lq7h Рік тому

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

  • @albertstelletell53
    @albertstelletell53 Рік тому

    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!

  • @malola49
    @malola49 9 місяців тому +1

    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.🤦🏻‍♀️😡

  • @jvs333
    @jvs333 9 місяців тому

    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
      @gary.h.turner 9 місяців тому

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

  • @TTony-tu6dm
    @TTony-tu6dm 9 місяців тому

    Um, science

  • @johnkeviljr9625
    @johnkeviljr9625 10 місяців тому

    Please play her some music…..

  • @alanshields8036
    @alanshields8036 10 місяців тому +1

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

  • @glennherron9499
    @glennherron9499 9 місяців тому

    Couldn't leave it on 666 likes!

  • @boyanbizoev7504
    @boyanbizoev7504 6 років тому +11

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

  • @RobertSmith-bz5ug
    @RobertSmith-bz5ug 10 місяців тому

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

  • @markflint2629
    @markflint2629 9 місяців тому

    Australian invention

  • @boatbuilder508
    @boatbuilder508 9 місяців тому

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

  • @redkos
    @redkos 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @Jokerjaxs
    @Jokerjaxs 9 місяців тому

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

  • @johnsmith-tr3dh
    @johnsmith-tr3dh 9 місяців тому

    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