Comments on: Thoughts on the CI experience by Dr. Mark Ross http://www.sarasera.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-the-ci-experience-by-dr-mark-ross/ The Era of Sara... Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:33:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ace http://www.sarasera.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-the-ci-experience-by-dr-mark-ross/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Ace Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:19:35 +0000 http://www.sarasera.com/?p=108#comment-251 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. 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.

]]> By: Dan Connell http://www.sarasera.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-the-ci-experience-by-dr-mark-ross/comment-page-1/#comment-244 Dan Connell Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:51:11 +0000 http://www.sarasera.com/?p=108#comment-244 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. <abbr><em>Dan Connell’s last blog post: <a href="http://deafmanblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/nl-0020-ci-procedure-side-effects.html" rel="nofollow">(NL-0020) CI Procedure Side Effects</a></abbr></em> 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.

Dan Connell’s last blog post: (NL-0020) CI Procedure Side Effects

]]> By: Nabeel http://www.sarasera.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-the-ci-experience-by-dr-mark-ross/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Nabeel Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:43:17 +0000 http://www.sarasera.com/?p=108#comment-242 Interesting read, thanks for posting. I'm getting a CI soon... <abbr><em>Nabeel’s last blog post: <a href="http://nabeel-ci.blogspot.com/2009/03/surgery-date.html" rel="nofollow">Surgery Date</a></abbr></em> Interesting read, thanks for posting. I’m getting a CI soon…

Nabeel’s last blog post: Surgery Date

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