WEBVTT 00:00:00.601 --> 00:00:02.536 Is all of this really loud right now? 00:00:02.536 --> 00:00:04.171 Yes! Amazingly! 00:00:04.171 --> 00:00:07.082 I would imagine that all of a sudden, in everything, 00:00:07.082 --> 00:00:09.643 the smallest thing must be really loud. 00:00:09.643 --> 00:00:11.478 Yes. 00:00:11.478 --> 00:00:16.091 So, first of all, it was the most moving thing that I had ever seen. 00:00:16.091 --> 00:00:19.253 To experience that, 00:00:19.253 --> 00:00:21.222 and this is just a week old, right? 00:00:21.222 --> 00:00:22.256 Yes, ma'am. 00:00:22.256 --> 00:00:23.691 Eight days. 00:00:23.691 --> 00:00:27.962 Explain to me what it is- you were born with- 00:00:27.962 --> 00:00:29.330 what is it exactly? 00:00:29.330 --> 00:00:32.699 My parents' DNA together caused the 00:00:32.699 --> 00:00:35.502 hairs in my ear not to form. 00:00:35.502 --> 00:00:37.175 Those hairs are what transmit the sound waves 00:00:37.175 --> 00:00:38.672 to your brain. 00:00:38.672 --> 00:00:39.473 Wow! 00:00:39.473 --> 00:00:40.407 It's just that simple- 00:00:40.407 --> 00:00:41.842 just not having the hairs in your ear- 00:00:41.842 --> 00:00:43.777 that's incredible. 00:00:43.777 --> 00:00:45.023 Yes! 00:00:45.023 --> 00:00:48.382 I don't understand how clearly you're speaking. 00:00:48.382 --> 00:00:49.617 I mean, you sound like- 00:00:49.617 --> 00:00:53.087 usually there's a little bit of a speech impediment 00:00:53.087 --> 00:00:55.472 because you don't hear clearly, how words are pronounced. 00:00:55.472 --> 00:00:56.791 How are you speaking so clearly? 00:00:56.791 --> 00:00:59.293 I get asked that all the time. 00:00:59.293 --> 00:01:02.856 Honestly I just accredit it to deaf education school, 00:01:02.856 --> 00:01:04.264 speech therapy. 00:01:04.264 --> 00:01:07.668 I'm a big talker and just like to talk a lot. 00:01:07.668 --> 00:01:08.802 I love to read. 00:01:08.802 --> 00:01:10.671 I just read anything I can get my hands on. 00:01:10.671 --> 00:01:13.574 I have a passion for English and grammar. 00:01:13.574 --> 00:01:16.343 I excelled in those subjects oddly enough. 00:01:19.051 --> 00:01:20.702 When you- 00:01:20.702 --> 00:01:22.918 by the way if you want to read a book this is a good one- 00:01:22.918 --> 00:01:25.019 I started [reading it] in the green room! 00:01:25.019 --> 00:01:28.956 So, other than obviously your children- 00:01:28.956 --> 00:01:30.191 you have- how old are your children? 00:01:30.191 --> 00:01:31.696 My oldest will be four next month 00:01:31.696 --> 00:01:33.393 and my youngest is twenty months old. 00:01:33.393 --> 00:01:35.362 So you're hearing them for the first time. 00:01:35.362 --> 00:01:36.897 Hearing them, yes. 00:01:36.897 --> 00:01:38.632 Their voices. 00:01:38.632 --> 00:01:41.301 And that must have been obviously something you 00:01:41.301 --> 00:01:44.371 would be waiting to hear what that sounds like. 00:01:44.371 --> 00:01:46.106 Your husband, of course, Sloan. 00:01:46.106 --> 00:01:49.243 What other sounds did you imagine? 00:01:49.243 --> 00:01:52.413 What sounds did you think about hearing? 00:01:52.413 --> 00:01:53.714 Like music, even. 00:01:53.714 --> 00:01:55.055 Hearing music clearly. 00:01:55.055 --> 00:01:57.485 The rain, thunder, birds. 00:01:57.485 --> 00:02:01.649 Things that normal people wouldn't think about hearing- 00:02:01.649 --> 00:02:03.324 my husband snoring. 00:02:03.324 --> 00:02:04.891 *Audience laughter* 00:02:04.891 --> 00:02:06.159 Yourself laughing, you know. 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:06.851 Things like that. 00:02:06.851 --> 00:02:09.596 Speaking of your husband, Sloan- hi! 00:02:11.673 --> 00:02:13.306 This is incredible. 00:02:13.306 --> 00:02:16.103 And now she knows you snore. 00:02:16.103 --> 00:02:18.705 You got away with it for years! 00:02:18.705 --> 00:02:19.974 But you snore. 00:02:19.974 --> 00:02:22.443 Yeah, but I think she only experienced it one time 00:02:22.443 --> 00:02:23.844 and then click turned it off! 00:02:23.844 --> 00:02:26.347 I see, I see. 00:02:26.347 --> 00:02:28.415 She's not going to be subject to that anymore. 00:02:28.415 --> 00:02:30.885 Well, you probably love hearing him snore. 00:02:30.885 --> 00:02:32.786 That's probably- it's going to wear off. 00:02:32.786 --> 00:02:34.421 Oh it already wore off. 00:02:34.421 --> 00:02:35.589 It wore off the first night. 00:02:35.589 --> 00:02:36.857 I see, I see! 00:02:36.857 --> 00:02:39.726 This is Sloan's mother- your mother-in-law, Larry. 00:02:39.726 --> 00:02:43.764 And Larry, I think has to be the best mother-in-law 00:02:43.764 --> 00:02:46.266 that I've ever heard of. 00:02:46.266 --> 00:02:48.902 The procedure costs thirty thousand dollars. 00:02:48.902 --> 00:02:50.270 Per ear. 00:02:50.270 --> 00:02:51.572 So you've had one. 00:02:51.572 --> 00:02:54.708 And you couldn't afford it, and you gave them 00:02:54.708 --> 00:02:55.509 the money. 00:02:55.509 --> 00:02:56.844 Yes, I did. 00:02:56.844 --> 00:02:58.546 When the girls came along- 00:02:58.546 --> 00:03:06.787 *Audience applause* 00:03:06.787 --> 00:03:09.256 Sarah is the best daughter-in-law in the world. 00:03:09.256 --> 00:03:12.331 When this device became available- 00:03:12.331 --> 00:03:14.661 I'm not wealthy at all. 00:03:14.661 --> 00:03:17.718 We should say you cashed in your retirement to do this. 00:03:17.718 --> 00:03:19.332 I did. I cashed in a small retirement fund 00:03:19.332 --> 00:03:20.667 that I had. 00:03:20.667 --> 00:03:31.882 It's not covered- your insurance does not cover this either. 00:03:31.882 --> 00:03:33.347 That's why you had to borrow the money. 00:03:33.347 --> 00:03:34.381 Yes. 00:03:34.381 --> 00:03:36.433 I don't think that a family should struggle like this, 00:03:36.433 --> 00:03:37.517 financially. 00:03:37.517 --> 00:03:39.953 With something this important. 00:03:39.953 --> 00:03:42.255 So we have a little gift for you. 00:03:42.255 --> 00:03:44.891 Our friends at Envoy Medical Corporation, 00:03:44.891 --> 00:03:46.893 the company that actually supplied you with 00:03:46.893 --> 00:03:48.161 the original implant, 00:03:48.161 --> 00:03:51.164 will not only give you the next one for free, 00:03:51.164 --> 00:03:53.477 but they are going to give you thirty thousand dollars 00:03:53.477 --> 00:03:54.902 to pay you back. 00:03:54.902 --> 00:04:06.814 *Audience applause* 00:04:06.814 --> 00:04:08.615 Thank you! 00:04:08.615 --> 00:04:29.336 Come on down! 00:04:29.336 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm so happy to have helped!