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6 Months
My six month appointment at the CI center was a good one. I drove down to Chapel Hill the day before and spent the evening with my cousin and his wife. I hadn’t seen them since before my CI surgery, so it was nice to catch up. The audiologists had moved to a satellite location away [...]
Mainstreaming vs Deaf School…
I just read this post by Mark Drolsbaugh at Deaf Culture Online: http://www.deaf-culture-online.com/mainstreaming-vs-deaf.html. It’s about the different levels of social interaction that his son experiences at various summer camps. I liked the article because it really emphasizes how essential peer interaction is. It also shows that even if you aren’t 100% fluent in ASL, it [...]
Video
This video made me smile. It’s good to see people in the Deaf community talking about their CI experience. Warning: I just learned 3 or 4 HINT test sentences from it… but now that I have a CI I can hear them anyway. Gallaudet Professors Josh and Sam Swiller received their cochlear implants…
5 Months with a Cochlear Implant, Music and Lectures
First things first. Music with my cochlear implant is way way beyond my expectations. But I had pretty low expectations. Seriously, music sounds great now (5 months from activation). The CI adds a whole new layer of sounds that I couldn’t hear before. It helps bring out the lyrics. It adds the higher frequency percussion, cymbals, [...]
How the CI brands leap-frog each other…
It’s nice that there are three brands of cochlear implants. The competition keeps everyone moving forward. Cochlear just had a new implant and processor approved, the Cochlear 5. Here’s an example comparison posted to one of the mailing lists I’m on that shows how one brand is catching up with another. With the advent of the [...]
Four months, research, music
Let’s see how I do with my last post’s list. I’m going to take CI/hearing topics today. 1. 4 months with CI That’s right. I was activated way back on May 4th. I’ve been in for just 3 mappings since then at 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months (though all were a bit late). My audiogram has [...]
Blog topics brain dump!
I want to write! But there are so many things that I want to write about that I draw a blank when I open this window to start. Maybe a list will help… 4 months with CI CI #2? 2 CIs versus 1 CI and 1 HA versus bilateral EAS Music lately (wish I’d remembered to bring headphones [...]
Hearing impaired get better hearing with cochlear implant plus hearing aid
Sorry for the cut-n-paste job, but I’m traveling again for work this week without much time to write. I find this topic fascinating though. I’ve been wearing my hearing aid in the unimplemented ear (formerly my better ear) for almost 2 months now. For the next set of hearing tests I’ll ask to be tested [...]
New sounds I can hear really well
Frying pan noises – right now Don is grilling burgers in a pan because the grill ran out of gas Which cycle the washer or dryer are on – from the living room Beep when the washer finishes MANY crickets and other chipers outside at night – just opening the door a crack is like turning them all on, they are LOUD Toilet paper crinkling Bed [...]
Piccolos? Yes, I hear them.
I used to joke that I did great in band, my hearing loss didn’t prevent me from playing, I could hear everyone… except the piccoolos. And people would laugh and say that I wasn’t missing anything, or even that I was lucky to not hear them. When did I first realize I was hearing them with [...]
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