The Sounds of Life, Maggie After Surgery

Dogs barking, firetruck sirens blaring... born deaf, 14-year-old Maggie Gleason's life is very different now after an auditory brainstem implant (ABI) at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, helped her hear sounds for the very first time. To learn more about our Audiology and Cochlear Implant Center: bit.ly/CochlearImplantCenter
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[@masey423]

she is adorable!

[@kyleebert1586]

She is

[@elliefieldhouse2459]

She's so pretty!!

[@poodlemsp7429]

+Ellie Fieldhouse I thought the same thing because she is!

[@kyleebert1586]

She is

[@Nishtha1357]

damn cute

[@marialaas8193]

I know!! And that's so heartwarming that she can be safe now go on with her life!!

[@funnydogvideos4249]

Yeh that's what I was just about to type

[@woo7239]

this is great! and she is really pretty

[@1000crazypeople]

so now I know why they had cameras at our school that day. that's awesome

[@BankruptGreek]

Louis Bernard hey, have you met magie irl? I am curious about her progress with hearing

[@elizabethflores9]

Such a sweetheart! I hope she doesn't have to get bullied or thought of as dumb. She is beautiful!

[@danicamoores4627]

she is so pretty and she can talk better than any deaf person I've met or saw

[@CrazzyDayz95]

wow its so funny, how much people that can hear take for granted, like if we turn on a fan we can hear the humming but to a deaf person they would die just to hear those sounds. I'm so happy that this girl can hear and experience the world of sounds!

[@joannawitulski34]

Dying to hear sounds? Not really. It would be an experience to begin with but then we would gradually take sounds for granted just like anyone.

[@nikkifernandez4180]

Congratulations Maggie. A whole new world is at your fingertips! 😊😊

[@juliamurder618]

She's so beautiful

[@karolinakoce5777]

Maggie is so beautiful like omg!!

[@Ned944]

Bless her she is an example to us all !!! I`ll wager that she continues to amaze us all !

[@madelinevansaun4107]

She is soo pretty and I love her she is awesome

[@aricmackenthun1206]

maggie is such an inspirational young lady. I wish nothing but the best for her in the future. And with the help and support of her family she will be able to achieve anything she sets her mind to.

[@jadegalindo2443]

She can speak a really good amount for just hearing I'm impressed

[@aricmackenthun1206]

She is such a great young lady. I wish her nothing but the very best for her future.

[@michaelparker2449]

Her brain must be rewiring itself like crazy to adapt to a whole new sensory input, and it would be very interesting to see brain scans of all the changes.

[@BankruptGreek]

Michael Parker I wonder how she is doing too, the sad truth is that she may never fully adapt due to the age that she got the implant if she had it when she has an infant 1-2 year of her life I believe she could have for sure adapted 100% to it

[@hannahrosereviews5073]

I know I can watch their reactions but, I really wonder what goes thru a Deaf person's mind when they hear for the first time.

[@ikaros21]

+Hannah Rose my girlfriend is deaf and I think they might get a little over overwhelmed at first !!

[@Dragonbahn]

+Hannah Rose Those who haven't lost and regained something so important have trouble understanding what it feels like. I guess it would feel like finally waking up without that week long migrain and have to learn chinese.

[@maplesyrup3559]

.First it's a bit weird... Cause you don't really remember how everything sounds... But it's an amazing feeling to hear everything again& you appreciate it even more.But it sounds a bit different as when you hear normal..like if you're phoning someone.

[@hannahbailey6424]

Hannah Rose we have the same name :)

[@IIRomoII]

Hannah Rose they must be like "whaaaaaaaat"

[@annettecain446]

Beautiful girl!! Sweet personality, I'm so happy for you! God bless you in your journey through life!

[@totaltwins2868]

She is SOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL

[@_lalai]

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwher freinds is so kind to her. so cute!!!!

[@aricmackenthun1206]

she is such a beautiful young girl. I hope that she gets to do everything that she wants to do in life.

[@tparemylife7838]

Maggie is very pretty💚💚💚💚💚

[@fake_amiri3662]

She is a young and bright beautiful girl

[@rebekah8457]

she is so pretty and hope she is all better now!!

[@rafif2965]

she's so cute and adorable. I want to meet her♥=D

[@l1meston]

I feel so happy for her

[@danicat214]

I think it's so nice that her friends learnt how to sign

[@rebeccacathey3752]

This is so amazing

[@alieellersmith]

So pretty!!!

[@jurassicjoseph1856]

I said it in the last video and I'll say it again. She is soooooooo pretty.

[@londonwowzerzs3942]

She is beautiful

[@tamaravegas5637]

This is so amazing!

[@bexkeene3235]

what a beautiful girl

[@michaelamilmerstadt1872]

𞁉𞁮𞁳𞁰𞁩𞁲𞁡𞁴𞁩𞁯𞁮𞁡𞁬! 𞁴𞁨𞁡𞁮𞁫 𞁹𞁯𞁵!!

[@jazmineguzman1114]

That made me cry

[@chey5379]

That was my sister friend! The girl with the fading blonde hair in the end is my sister and she's deaf too

[@vegafamily8236]

She so pretty

[@butteredtoast5138]

she doesn't look like the average person but she's still so cute...like a muffin😯

[@jayleenmelanie6968]

She looks pretty

[@malibuluv209]

I would like another update a year later of this videos post date

[@mollteezer5496]

she realy butiful

[@megan4007]

God bless her and thank God for healing her!

[@georgekaps8543]

thank the doctors not God idiot

[@verbalvomits1239]

the doctors healed her. not god.

[@megan4007]

Jon Smith God helped the docters to be able to heal her

[@toms7703]

Reonus Feather that wasnt god, it was humanity getting smarter

[@Freddy-xx3uf]

thank the doctors, god had nothing to do with that

[@alihilman6077]

I was born deaf to so I know how it feel like

[@brookesheehan7678]

What if there's an emergency and she calls the police? How is she supposed to tell them the emergency?

[@ava6171]

If u just call they come anyway

[@tabitha6895]

If nobody answers when the operator asks what the issue is or if she were to just hang up or something they automatically have to send a police to their house no matter what.

[@abcbcacba]

She is learning

[@lana9043]

theres a special phone for deaf people where theres a screen that you can type the message and it sends it to the person. Its sort of like she types it and an automated voice speaks to the other line and its really cool and theres some high tech hearing aids now that can actually do this through their mobile phones but its very costly so most deaf people do the screen version

[@GuardianDiancie]

Brooke Sheehan good question There are ways to thanks to technology: deafservicebureau.blogspot.com/2012/03/3-ways-to-call-911-as-deaf-person-in.html?m=1

[@kornelijavostrikovaite7656]

she is fabalas♥♥

[@omelasbaby]

I don't know why, but Maggie reminds me of Shailene Woodley

[@eeshatiwana6731]

I hope she can speak

[@sashaelizabeth8309]

why are there dislikes

[@treveaclay1988]

my daugther has a cochlear

[@yepthatsright9362]

I don't see why she won't be able to speak pretty well in a couple of years I mean it takes a while for babies to.

[@patrickc2772]

😍

[@aryonarunyan3380]

Don't worry Maggie I have a hearing loss thing when I got my hearing aid everyone was making fun of me calling me a granny and I told the principle the people who said that got suspended

[@Isabel-dl9ep]

She looks like Kylie Jenner before she had lip injections 😳😻

[@KryKosmosXoXo]

Does she have a insta?

[@krishnakey5598]

I am deaf and hearing

[@ellenfuchs8598]

Can she understand words without sign language?

[@kevinhasenflue6489]

yes she can. she reads lips

[@BankruptGreek]

Yes Sweetie please without reading lips?

[@BankruptGreek]

will she learn to talk normally

[@londonwowzerzs3942]

I'm not just trying to be nice like seriously