1 00:00:00,601 --> 00:00:02,536 Is all of this really loud right now? 2 00:00:02,536 --> 00:00:04,171 Yes! Amazingly! 3 00:00:04,171 --> 00:00:07,082 I would imagine that all of a sudden, in everything, 4 00:00:07,082 --> 00:00:09,643 the smallest thing must be really loud. 5 00:00:09,643 --> 00:00:11,478 Yes. 6 00:00:11,478 --> 00:00:16,091 So, first of all, it was the most moving thing that I had ever seen. 7 00:00:16,091 --> 00:00:19,253 To experience that, 8 00:00:19,253 --> 00:00:21,222 and this is just a week old, right? 9 00:00:21,222 --> 00:00:22,256 Yes, ma'am. 10 00:00:22,256 --> 00:00:23,691 Eight days. 11 00:00:23,691 --> 00:00:27,962 Explain to me what it is- you were born with- 12 00:00:27,962 --> 00:00:29,330 what is it exactly? 13 00:00:29,330 --> 00:00:32,699 My parents' DNA together caused the 14 00:00:32,699 --> 00:00:35,502 hairs in my ear not to form. 15 00:00:35,502 --> 00:00:37,175 Those hairs are what transmit the sound waves 16 00:00:37,175 --> 00:00:38,672 to your brain. 17 00:00:38,672 --> 00:00:39,473 Wow! 18 00:00:39,473 --> 00:00:40,407 It's just that simple- 19 00:00:40,407 --> 00:00:41,842 just not having the hairs in your ear- 20 00:00:41,842 --> 00:00:43,777 that's incredible. 21 00:00:43,777 --> 00:00:45,023 Yes! 22 00:00:45,023 --> 00:00:48,382 I don't understand how clearly you're speaking. 23 00:00:48,382 --> 00:00:49,617 I mean, you sound like- 24 00:00:49,617 --> 00:00:53,087 usually there's a little bit of a speech impediment 25 00:00:53,087 --> 00:00:55,472 because you don't hear clearly, how words are pronounced. 26 00:00:55,472 --> 00:00:56,791 How are you speaking so clearly? 27 00:00:56,791 --> 00:00:59,293 I get asked that all the time. 28 00:00:59,293 --> 00:01:02,856 Honestly I just accredit it to deaf education school, 29 00:01:02,856 --> 00:01:04,264 speech therapy. 30 00:01:04,264 --> 00:01:07,668 I'm a big talker and just like to talk a lot. 31 00:01:07,668 --> 00:01:08,802 I love to read. 32 00:01:08,802 --> 00:01:10,671 I just read anything I can get my hands on. 33 00:01:10,671 --> 00:01:13,574 I have a passion for English and grammar. 34 00:01:13,574 --> 00:01:16,343 I excelled in those subjects oddly enough. 35 00:01:19,051 --> 00:01:20,702 When you- 36 00:01:20,702 --> 00:01:22,918 by the way if you want to read a book this is a good one- 37 00:01:22,918 --> 00:01:25,019 I started [reading it] in the green room! 38 00:01:25,019 --> 00:01:28,956 So, other than obviously your children- 39 00:01:28,956 --> 00:01:30,191 you have- how old are your children? 40 00:01:30,191 --> 00:01:31,696 My oldest will be four next month 41 00:01:31,696 --> 00:01:33,393 and my youngest is twenty months old. 42 00:01:33,393 --> 00:01:35,362 So you're hearing them for the first time. 43 00:01:35,362 --> 00:01:36,897 Hearing them, yes. 44 00:01:36,897 --> 00:01:38,632 Their voices. 45 00:01:38,632 --> 00:01:41,301 And that must have been obviously something you 46 00:01:41,301 --> 00:01:44,371 would be waiting to hear what that sounds like. 47 00:01:44,371 --> 00:01:46,106 Your husband, of course, Sloan. 48 00:01:46,106 --> 00:01:49,243 What other sounds did you imagine? 49 00:01:49,243 --> 00:01:52,413 What sounds did you think about hearing? 50 00:01:52,413 --> 00:01:53,714 Like music, even. 51 00:01:53,714 --> 00:01:55,055 Hearing music clearly. 52 00:01:55,055 --> 00:01:57,485 The rain, thunder, birds. 53 00:01:57,485 --> 00:02:01,649 Things that normal people wouldn't think about hearing- 54 00:02:01,649 --> 00:02:03,324 my husband snoring. 55 00:02:03,324 --> 00:02:04,891 *Audience laughter* 56 00:02:04,891 --> 00:02:06,159 Yourself laughing, you know. 57 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:06,851 Things like that. 58 00:02:06,851 --> 00:02:09,596 Speaking of your husband, Sloan- hi! 59 00:02:11,673 --> 00:02:13,306 This is incredible. 60 00:02:13,306 --> 00:02:16,103 And now she knows you snore. 61 00:02:16,103 --> 00:02:18,705 You got away with it for years! 62 00:02:18,705 --> 00:02:19,974 But you snore. 63 00:02:19,974 --> 00:02:22,443 Yeah, but I think she only experienced it one time 64 00:02:22,443 --> 00:02:23,844 and then click turned it off! 65 00:02:23,844 --> 00:02:26,347 I see, I see. 66 00:02:26,347 --> 00:02:28,415 She's not going to be subject to that anymore. 67 00:02:28,415 --> 00:02:30,885 Well, you probably love hearing him snore. 68 00:02:30,885 --> 00:02:32,786 That's probably- it's going to wear off. 69 00:02:32,786 --> 00:02:34,421 Oh it already wore off. 70 00:02:34,421 --> 00:02:35,589 It wore off the first night. 71 00:02:35,589 --> 00:02:36,857 I see, I see! 72 00:02:36,857 --> 00:02:39,726 This is Sloan's mother- your mother-in-law, Larry. 73 00:02:39,726 --> 00:02:43,764 And Larry, I think has to be the best mother-in-law 74 00:02:43,764 --> 00:02:46,266 that I've ever heard of. 75 00:02:46,266 --> 00:02:48,902 The procedure costs thirty thousand dollars. 76 00:02:48,902 --> 00:02:50,270 Per ear. 77 00:02:50,270 --> 00:02:51,572 So you've had one. 78 00:02:51,572 --> 00:02:54,708 And you couldn't afford it, and you gave them 79 00:02:54,708 --> 00:02:55,509 the money. 80 00:02:55,509 --> 00:02:56,844 Yes, I did. 81 00:02:56,844 --> 00:02:58,546 When the girls came along- 82 00:02:58,546 --> 00:03:06,787 *Audience applause* 83 00:03:06,787 --> 00:03:09,256 Sarah is the best daughter-in-law in the world. 84 00:03:09,256 --> 00:03:12,331 When this device became available- 85 00:03:12,331 --> 00:03:14,661 I'm not wealthy at all. 86 00:03:14,661 --> 00:03:17,718 We should say you cashed in your retirement to do this. 87 00:03:17,718 --> 00:03:19,332 I did. I cashed in a small retirement fund 88 00:03:19,332 --> 00:03:20,667 that I had. 89 00:03:20,667 --> 00:03:31,882 It's not covered- your insurance does not cover this either. 90 00:03:31,882 --> 00:03:33,347 That's why you had to borrow the money. 91 00:03:33,347 --> 00:03:34,381 Yes. 92 00:03:34,381 --> 00:03:36,433 I don't think that a family should struggle like this, 93 00:03:36,433 --> 00:03:37,517 financially. 94 00:03:37,517 --> 00:03:39,953 With something this important. 95 00:03:39,953 --> 00:03:42,255 So we have a little gift for you. 96 00:03:42,255 --> 00:03:44,891 Our friends at Envoy Medical Corporation, 97 00:03:44,891 --> 00:03:46,893 the company that actually supplied you with 98 00:03:46,893 --> 00:03:48,161 the original implant, 99 00:03:48,161 --> 00:03:51,164 will not only give you the next one for free, 100 00:03:51,164 --> 00:03:53,477 but they are going to give you thirty thousand dollars 101 00:03:53,477 --> 00:03:54,902 to pay you back. 102 00:03:54,902 --> 00:04:06,814 *Audience applause* 103 00:04:06,814 --> 00:04:08,615 Thank you! 104 00:04:08,615 --> 00:04:29,336 Come on down! 105 00:04:29,336 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm so happy to have helped!