Edgar NersisyanEdgar Nersisyan

Narrated by Edgar Nersisyan

Hello, I am Edgar Nersisyan from Gyumri, Armenia. I was born on 27.08.1975. I am a musician. A tragedy happened to me when I started to gradually lose the ability of hearing. When I was 32 years old I became completely deaf. For  a man, who worked as a musician and maintained his family it was a real disaster. I started to look for help. In Erebouni Medical Centre, in Yerevan, Armenia, I was diagnosed 4th grade of sensorineural hearing loss. The only salvation for me and for other people with the same diagnosis is Cochlear implantation which costs a lot of money. Because of  lack of finances I had to wait for a whole year until I found a donor for my cochlear implantation. At the age of 33, in 2008  I got an implant with Freedom speech processor.  It helped me a lot to get back to life, to hear the sounds of lovely music again.

After the implantation I decided to help people with the same problem. Many parents in Armenia whose children became deaf or were born deaf didn’t trust Cochlear Implantation. This was a lack of information in my country. So I decided to meet them and show how well the implant works, to answer all their questions. I believe I helped many people to come to the right decision.

With happiness, there was also fear as I did know that the speech processors worn out after 5 years of usage. Alongside with fear I dreamed about new, more advanced SP as I knew the newest ones give better and clearer hearing. Thanks God I didn’t face a problem after bearing Freedom 5 years as I met Dr. Monika Lehnhardt, the president of Prof. Ernst Lehnhardt Foundation, who donated me a “new” CP810 speech processor which gives me much better hearing. With the SP I also got a remote control which releases me from problems I faced before.

I am very thankful to Dr. Lehnhardt, She saved me and many other Armenian families with her project “Upgrade Speech Processors for Armenia”.

 Narrated by Edgar Nersisyan

Hello, I am Edgar Nersisyan from Gyumri, Armenia. I was born on 27.08.1975. I am a musician. A tragedy happened to me when I started to gradually lose the ability of hearing. When I was 32 years old I became completely deaf. For  a man, who worked as a musician and maintained his family it was a real disaster. I started to look for help. In Erebouni Medical Centre, in Yerevan, Armenia, I was diagnosed 4th grade of sensorineural hearing loss. The only salvation for me and for other people with the same diagnosis is Cochlear implantation which costs a lot of money. Because of  lack of finances I had to wait for a whole year until I found a donor for my cochlear implantation. At the age of 33, in 2008  I got an implant with Freedom speech processor.  It helped me a lot to get back to life, to hear the sounds of lovely music again.

After the implantation I decided to help people with the same problem. Many parents in Armenia whose children became deaf or were born deaf didn’t trust Cochlear Implantation. This was a lack of information in my country. So I decided to meet them and show how well the implant works, to answer all their questions. I believe I helped many people to come to the right decision.

With happiness, there was also fear as I did know that the speech processors worn out after 5 years of usage. Alongside with fear I dreamed about new, more advanced SP as I knew the newest ones give better and clearer hearing. Thanks God I didn’t face a problem after bearing Freedom 5 years as I met Dr. Monika Lehnhardt, the president of Prof. Ernst Lehnhardt Foundation, who donated me a “new” CP810 speech processor which gives me much better hearing. With the SP I also got a remote control which releases me from problems I faced before.

I am very thankful to Dr. Lehnhardt, She saved me and many other Armenian families with her project “Upgrade Speech Processors for Armenia”.