I read these sometime last fall I think:
http://www.hearingresearch.org/Dr.Ross/CI-one.htm
http://www.hearingresearch.org/Dr.Ross/CI-two.htm
I was also particularly interested in his experiences with a CI to hear music. Unfortunately it wasn’t that encouraging.
You can find those and all of his articles on hearing loss here:
http://www.hearingresearch.org/ross.htm
I'm a 30-something year old girl originally from upstate NY and now living in central Virginia. My background is in mechanical engineering and I worked full time as an engineer for 8 years. In 2010 I quit my job and started a laser engraving business.
I lost my hearing at age 14 and have been using hearing aids since then. In April 2009 I received my first cochlear implant. That went really well so in December 2009 I got the second. The CIs are what prompted me to start writing publicly - but I try to cover other things as well.
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Interesting read, thanks for posting. I’m getting a CI soon…
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This is really a great synopsis by Dr. Ross. Thanks for pointing it out. It’s well written and concise. It will be interesting for me to see if my CI activation is as easy. Hope so.
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I read this yesterday. He went from 18% to 90% on monosyllabic words. He also hears more environmental sounds as well as birds singing. Do you still hear birds? I haven’t heard birds in many months, probably over a year now. I never even noticed I lost that ability and simply thought there were no birds near or that they didn’t sing.
He got a good result, not surprisingly since his worse ear has an average of 110db loss, that’s worse than even my ears. He didn’t provide his audiogram, it’s possible he has/had significent residual hearing at 250Hz. The average residual hearing of someone getting CI is about as bad as mine from the blogs I read that include their audiogram. Over 90% of any hearing impaired people have a sloping loss with more(sometimes much more) low frequency(500Hz and below) hearing.
A progressive hearing loss, if not very gradual lets the person know what he’s missing. I was born with hearing only slightly better than what I have now. I lost a little more high frequency and can no longer hear birds, whistles(other than the woosh sound of air) and the highest octive on a piano. It’s been so long I hardly remember those sounds.