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keithk

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Celebrity BAHA Users
« on: January 06, 2011, 04:14:12 pm »
Does anyone know if there are any celebrities who wear a BAHA.
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leapyrtwins

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Re: Celebrity BAHA Users
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2011, 11:43:27 pm »
Not that I'm a BAHA expert, but I don't know of any.

Then again, celebrities are sometimes hesitant to disclose things like this so you never know.

I'm sure many celebrities as they age need hearing aids, yet I've never seen a celebrity sporting one.  Has anyone else?

Jan
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Re: Celebrity BAHA Users
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2011, 08:35:13 am »
Leslie Neilson (RIP) wore one in each ear. A hearing aid I mean.
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Re: Celebrity BAHA Users
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2011, 10:36:58 am »
Jan is being modest - she is OUR celebrity BAHA user, along with Lori and Kaybo, of course...

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Re: Celebrity BAHA Users
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2011, 11:09:48 am »
Yes, we'll be signing autographs later...   ;D

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Re: Celebrity BAHA Users
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2011, 11:59:41 am »
unfortunately...I am BAHA-less... :-[

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Re: Celebrity BAHA Users
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2011, 04:55:08 pm »
I noticed last week that Rush Limbaugh was wearing an aid.  (He was on the golf channel.)  I googled it and learned that he has something like a cochlear implant.
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Re: Celebrity BAHA Users
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2011, 05:19:32 pm »
Quote from: Brewers7 on January 18, 2011, 04:55:08 pm
I noticed last week that Rush Limbaugh was wearing an aid.  (He was on the golf channel.)  I googled it and learned that he has something like a cochlear implant.

Correct.  Limbaugh went deaf in 2001 and received a cochlear implant at HEI. 

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Re: Celebrity BAHA Users
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2011, 09:04:34 pm »
Rush does have a CI.  Didn't know he got it @ HEI though.

Thanks for the info., Jim.

Jan (not a true celebrity, but certainly infamous)  >:D
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I don't actually "make" trouble..just kind of attract it, fine tune it, and apply it in new and exciting ways
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