Video documentation of my kids and their victories and struggles with losing hearing, cochlear implants, and just being kids. Sammie was born with a moderate hearing impairment that slowly progressed to near profound levels a few years ago. This winter (2012) Sammie started struggling at school. Her hearing aids were all the way up and no longer working for her. We needed another solution. Jacob was born hearing and in kindergarten, he started failing hearing tests. The pediatrician thought it was allergies. After the allergies cleared up and he still couldn't hear, we took him to ENT. He had a mild hearing loss. His loss progressed quickly until this spring when he qualified for a cochlear implant. When we decided to go for it, we did a lot of research online. We really could not find anything similar to our kids situation.