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Cochlear's Hear & Now Blog

Learn more about our recipients and their experiences with Cochlear.*

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Picture1-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high">“My name is Randy and I live in Colorado. I have had profound hearing loss in both ears that started 44 years ago, due to working underground with high noise levels. I started wearing hearing aids 43 years ago. The last four years my hearing loss progressed significantly. My word recognition and ability to understand &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/cochlear-implants/daily-rehab-cochlear-implant/">Continued</a>

After 44 years, hearing rehab and cochlear implants have helped Randy hear again

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Blog-2025-Scholarship-Winners-6-300x300.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async">&#8220;We are incredibly proud of this year&#8217;s scholarship recipients. I am personally inspired by all eight recipients. These exceptional individuals embody the spirit of resilience and innovation, and we are honored to support them as they continue to make a positive impact in their communities and beyond.” &#160;-Lisa Aubert, President Cochlear North America. Graeme Clark &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/cochlear/community/2025-cochlear-scholarship-winners/">Continued</a>

Meet the Cochlear North America 2025 Academic Scholarship winners

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/JeffD4-e1745957571628-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async">Searching for a solution &#160; “My journey to the Osia System unknowingly began back in July 2023. Because I’ve had profound hearing loss in my left ear for most of my life, I have relied on the normal hearing in my right ear. Beginning in early 2020, I began to notice a sudden, rapid decrease &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/bone-conduction/osia-system-hearing-details/">Continued</a>

Jeff’s journey with the Osia system has him hearing sounds he had forgotten

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Picture2-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">Protect your hearing Reduce the time and level of exposure to loud sounds by using ear protection in loud environments such as concerts, sporting events, racetrack, or noisy hobbies. Visit Deafness and hearing loss: Safe listening for more. Use your devices wisely Use the built-in safe listening feature on your devices and use noise cancelling &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/cochlear/community/better-hearing-month-2025/">Continued</a>

6 ways that you can take part in Better Hearing Month 2025

<img width="300" height="267" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Jeannie-Child-e1744401584620-300x267.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">“I received my Cochlear Osia System in July of 2021. I can honestly say that getting the Osia System is the best decision I have ever made. Living a life without a hearing solution I lived over 35 years with single-sided deafness without a solution. When I was diagnosed in the early 1980’s, I was &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/bone-conduction/single-sided-deafness-osia/">Continued</a>

Jeannie’s journey to better hearing with single-sided deafness through the Cochlear Osia System

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CI-scaled-e1744401135157-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">“’Trust the process’ is what cochlear implant recipients are often told from the beginning to end of the surgical, activation and hearing adjustment process. If I had to sum up my experience of becoming a bilateral cochlear implant recipient in just a few words, those words would be ‘trust the process.’ How my journey to &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/cochlear-implants/transition-to-bilateral-cochlear-implants/">Continued</a>

Trusting the process: Samantha’s transition to bilateral cochlear implants and hearing in both ears

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Jerry-photo-1-e1744138158247-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">“I grew up in a family of hearing loss. Every paternal male member of my family that I can recall had low-frequency bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and used hearing aids. I should have been prepared for what was to come, but when I took my first professional job in my late 20s, I was still &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/cochlear-implants/bilateral-word-recognition-with-bimodal-hearing/">Continued</a>

With a family history of hearing loss, Jerry broke the chain with a bimodal hearing solution and now has 95% word recognition

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Brandi-Trotter-Photography-Rachel-Priest-1-e1741976608786-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">“Hello! I am the proud mama to two of the sweetest children. I wanted to share my son Jack’s story. Jack, who recently turned 6, was diagnosed at birth with sensorineural hearing loss in his right ear (he doesn’t have the little hairs that vibrate to make sound for the brain to process and make &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-loss/children/child-with-ssd/">Continued</a>

Jack’s journey as a child with single-sided deafness (SSD) and regaining access to sound, through a cochlear implant

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TDE6377-Edit-Edit-4_PHOTO-CREDIT-PHOTOGRAPHY-BY-TIM-ELLIS-scaled-e1740159057638-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">“In 2015 I started losing my hearing; I started noticing things around me sounding different. Things like people talking and their voices sounding muffled. I would be watching television and it seemed really low, so I would turn it up not realizing it was super loud. Family members would tell me ‘Mone (my nickname) you &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-loss/sensorineural/lupus-related-hearing-loss/">Continued</a>

Living with lupus related hearing loss: Revisiting Tiena’s cochlear implant journey 8 years later

<img width="300" height="300" src="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/LIF3530-300x300.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy">We are excited to announce some new, updated features that are now available in your Cochlear account! We have made some great enhancements to improve your experience. Be sure to log in and explore all the updates. Thank you for being a valued part of our community! 1. Login and Account Setup Visit the Cochlear &#8230; <a href="https://hearandnow.cochlear.com/hearing-solutions/services/cochlear-account-new-features-2025/">Continued</a>

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*The stories above are shared by our recipients nationwide and not exclusive to that of a Cochlear Hearing Center recipient.