Joy lived her 30-years of life hearing only muffled sounds through a hearing aid and communicating with sign language. Then, when she was pregnant, she lost all of her hearing. When her son Logan was born, she couldn't hear him cry.

Joy turned to the ENT clinic at LSU Health Sciences Center and underwent surgery to receive a cochlear implant. Normally, after receiving the device, patients spend several months learning to identify sounds and words before hearing becomes somewhat normal.

That's not what happened with Joy.

"Five minutes later, as our other audiologist was talking to her, she said, I think I'm understanding you. So, we gave her five words without the lips and she got all of them right," said LSUHSC audiologist April Daniel. Audiologist Jamie Wall was just as amazed. "The baby was two months, five days old and we turned her on and she heard him cry for the first time and it was just amazing. We were all in there, just crying right along with her."

"The miracle here is just how quickly she has progressed," said Daniel.

With all the sounds in the world Joy now hears, Logan's cry is her favorite. "To hear him cry, I'm like the first one to him, you know."